The current exhibition at Johnen Galerie is a well spaced, careful collection of drawings and paintings on wood, cardboard and canvas by the Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara. Nara’s work is charismatic and yet elusive in style. He paints wide-eyed though slightly sinister children and animals, often leaving his highly textured paintings, rough sketches, and sculptures slightly unfinished. His images incorporate a wide range of influences, from folk tales to punk music, to Western and Japanese modern art and cultural imagery. Photographs do not do the works justice: the scale and surfaces have an effect that is not transmissible, effectively giving each work its own unique personality.