Good Mother Gallery is pleased to present The Chase Scene, a solo exhibition of new paintings by San Francisco based artist Chad Hasegawa, on view from September 13 through October 24, 2025. Known for his bold abstractions that fuse precision with intensity, Hasegawa brings hard-edge minimalism into dialogue with atmosphere, emotion, and movement. With The Chase Scene, he turns painting into an exploration of momentum itself, transforming color and form into meditations on pursuit, suspension, and release.
Hasegawa paints the paradox of speed where stillness burns and movement holds its breath. His new works move beyond geometry into psychological terrain. Planes of color unfold as atmospheric fields, while sharp cuts register like edits in film. The paintings suggest headlights, tunnels, or arcs of architecture but never settle into image. They remain elemental—sweeps of light, sudden cuts of shadow, surfaces that ignite or dissolve. Through this language, Hasegawa explores the tension between urgency and calm, between action and meditation, between the fire of movement and the serenity of stillness.
Born in Honolulu, Hawaii, Hasegawa carries with him an adolescent sensibility that has never been abandoned, a need for accessibility that makes even his most austere abstractions feel open and direct. His paintings refuse obscurity. Instead, they are invitations into mood and sensation, experiences that ignite without explanation. This spirit of accessibility coexists with discipline, creating works that burn hot with tension yet ease into contemplative calm.
The Chase Scene resists quick resolution. The exhibition is staged as a sequence, a choreography of perception where each work recalibrates tempo and mood. What emerges is abstraction as lived experience. Meaning here is not pictured but pursued, not delivered but discovered. Hasegawa affirms that painting can hold both combustion and stillness at once, and that neutrality in abstraction is a myth. The chase is not external but internal, and to stand before these works is to feel motion made visible and time momentarily caught.
Opening Saturday, September 13th from 5pm-8pm at our Los Angeles location - 5103 W. Adams Blvd.
For more information or to request a preview catalog of available works, please email info@goodmothergallery.com
