LATE BLOOMER
by Charlie Finch



At the age of 42, Nobuhiro Ishihara just opened his first solo show in New York at Chelsea’s I-20 gallery. Ishihara studied at the School of Visual Arts, then returned to Japan for 20 years, where he exhibited intermittently. "Because he is the son of the Governor (the equivalent of Mayor) of Tokyo, many people bought his work, but some suspected that he was not really succeeding on his own," Ishihara’s friend, the distinguished curator Masashi Shiobara, told us at the opening.

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