Seiko Tachibana: Echoes
Themes + Projects, San Francisco
Continuing through January 31, 2026
Seiko Tachibana, “Branchchant-2,” 2025, acrylic on canvas, 10 x 8”.
Seiko Tachibana’s exhibition “Echoes” is a complex and richly layered presentation of recent work. Composed of several series that are grouped thematically, the exhibition reads as a contemporary Wünderkammer — a cabinet of wonders — in which individual works function both autonomously and as parts of a larger system of interrelationships.
The central work is fittingly titled “Echoes,” a suite of 28 acrylic-on-paper drawings that comprise the show’s conceptual and visual core. These intimate works depict shapes that evoke forests, branches, plants, and undersea environments rendered with exquisite delicacy and precision. While the imagery suggests close observation of nature, the drawings are not strictly representational. This slight departure from naturalism lends the works an open, exploratory quality, as though they were diagrams of systems still taking shape.