Tom Nakashima

Art Archive

“Sanctuary, After Giotto” 1993

August 15, 2020.Reading time 2 minutes.

Lithograph, 40” x 32” (worked & printed at RCIP). Rutgers Center for Innovative Printmaking is the place to go if you want to work in a non-traditional manner whereby you can make it up as you go. My guru for this project was the Tamarind Masterprinter Eileen Foti. I have some lithographic knowledge myself […]

“Samurai (all black)” 1973

August 11, 2020.Reading time less than 1 minute.

Unique print from 4 plates, 12” x 14”. Artist’s collection. I was working on prints with my Bodhisattva Will Petersen. Watched a lot of Samurai movies – swords slashing kimonos. The final proof was 4 colors but for this unique we printed the 4 plates each inked with black.