木原幸志郎は1997年兵庫県姫路市生まれ。島根大学にて美術教育を学んだ後、尾道市立大学大学院美術研究科油画コースへ進学。「具象と抽象」「瞬間と永遠」「真実と虚構」といった相反する要素をキャンバス上に共存させる独自の絵画世界を展開する。粘土や風船で立体を造形し、塗料を流し込んだ偶然の痕跡から抽象的形象を引き出す独特の制作手法を持つ。The 16th TAGBOAT AWARD 審査員特別賞（徳光健治賞）受賞。公益財団法人クマ財団 第5期クリエイター奨学金採択。双子の弟・木原健志郎とともにBSフジ「ブレイク前夜〜次世代の芸術家たち〜」第288回に出演。
Koshiro Kihara was born in 1997 in Himeji, Hyogo Prefecture. After studying art education at Shimane University, he pursued graduate studies in oil painting at the Graduate School of Fine Arts, Onomichi City University. His paintings explore the coexistence of opposing forces — figuration and abstraction, the momentary and the eternal, truth and fiction — on a single canvas. His distinctive process involves sculpting three-dimensional forms from clay and balloons, pouring paint over them, and extracting abstract imagery from the resulting accidental traces. He is the recipient of the 16th TAGBOAT AWARD Special Jury Prize (Kenji Tokumitsu Award) and a 5th-term Creator Scholarship from the Kuma Foundation. He appeared alongside his twin brother Kenshiro Kihara on Episode #288 of BS Fuji's "Break Zenya ~ The Next Generation of Artists ~."
This is one of my earlier works from when I developed my current style. While my concept hasn't changed, the appearance of the work feels quite different from today. At that time, I was more drawn to the materiality of paint itself — experimenting on canvas with questions like: how much do you need to paint before something becomes a recognizable object? How little can you paint before it becomes nothing more than color?
