“Sanctuary in Green Field” 1990
Intaglio & gilding on pulp painted paper, 23” x 28”. Unknown location. Another pulp painted print done at Pyramid Atlantic – a collaboration with master paper maker Helen Frederick.
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“Self Portrait as Icon #2″ 1990
Oil on copper, 14” x 12”. collection of Jay & Sarah Nakashima
Read More“Kami and Sanctuary” 1990”
Graphite on paper, 30” x 42”. Collection of Jay & Sarah Piccone Nakashima Perhaps I was looking a lot at Picasso (which of course I always do). The head on the right comes from two of my favorite sources. Hitotsu/me/kozo (the one/eyed/boy with a hunchback) is often pictured sweeping the grounds of a Zen temple. […]
Read MoreWash.,DC, Kings Ct. Studio 1990
My friend Giorgio Furioso & I started renovating this studio in about 1987 and finished about 1989. Gary Honig was our business guy on the project. The building was previously a lumber yard and a printing company. Gary had to get about 10 huge presses removed from the building – each being the size of […]
Read More“Cage With Newspaper” 1990
Oil on canvas, 72” x 84”. Collection of Gail & John Enns I was asked to do a couple of paintings for a show curated by Noriko Gambling at The Long Beach Museum of Art. I had already done a very large chicken cage and while working on it I realized how much it […]
Read More“Blue Sanctuary” 1990
Intaglio on handmade paper, 22” x 30”. Artist’s collection. In 1989 & 1990 Helen Frederick kindly offered me a kind of residency at Pyramid Atlantic Center for Paper, Print and the Book. Every Thursday night my Assistant Takako Nagai & I would go to Tacoma Park to work on prints. I did this intaglio called […]
Read More“Elena watercolor” 1990
w/c, 8” x 14”. Artist’s collection.
Read More“Mona by The Bathers” 1990
Oil and found objects on canvas, 90” x 95”. Collection of L. Raese.
Read More“Cage” 1990
Oil and gilding on canvas. 96″ x 115″. Collection of the artist. This was my 1st painting using the subject of a cage. I was in a DC junk store and saw a chicken cage. I bought it and it became a standard still life sitting on my studio floor. At some point I took […]
Read More“Blue Cyclops” 1990
Pulp painting. 22″ x 30″. Unknown collection. One of many hand made and pulp painted pieces done at Pyramid Atlantic Center for Paper, Print and The Book in Tacoma Park MD. It is a collaboration with mast printer/master paper artist Helen Frederick. For about a year and a half I was an artist in residence […]
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Tom Nakashima 