Art Archive
Charcoal, conte crayon, and collage. 72″ x 60″. Collection of Patrice and Herb Miller. The choice to use a vortex was inspired by DuChamp’s “Large Glass” and the idea within the zietgeist of the “The Event Horizon”, and how that subject is brought home to Planet Earth today in the familiar form of global warming. […]
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Mixed media. 20″ x 24″. Collection of the artist. As a child I built a lot of model airplanes using balsa and tissue paper. This is built mainly of pine and rice paper. It derives from the great fresco paintings by Giotto in the Arena Chapel in Padua. There are two beautiful paintings there The […]
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Mixed media on paper. 22″ x 30″. I had just spent a couple weeks in Bali. In front of the temples I saw many sculptures of naked people. While Indonesia is a Islamic country Bali is mostly Hindu/Buddhist. In recognition of the large numbers of Muslim tourist in Bali the genitals of the naked sculptures […]
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Mixed media on paper (byobu). 22″ x 30″. Collection of Gail and John Enns. This was the first folding screen I made. I was assisted in learning this art form by Mary Amt, Special Assistant to The Director at the Smithsonian Freer Gallery. We watched a film of hiogushi (conservators) rebuilding a byobu at The […]
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Oil and collage. 63″ x 63″, unknown colletion, Chicago From the late 70s to early 80s I shifted to work based on patterns and collage. This painting was shown in solo show at Henri Gallery DC and Balkin Fine Arts in Chicago. These were my first shows in “big city” galleries.
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Assemblage with mixed media. Unknown collection. I did this for a charity auction for The Washingtion Project for The Arts (WPA). I believe it was called The Chair Show and all submitted work had to include either an actual chair or an image of a chair.
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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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Pulp painting. 22″ x 30″. I was always fascinated by Mobius Strips and Klein Bottles because of their magic. Topology was a kind of childhood hobby. In the 60s while teaching I would sometimes entertain my students by demonstrating a topological puzzle whereby I would put on a vest followed by a sports coat. Then […]
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Mixed media. The sculpture was exhibited at my 2nd show at Henri Gallery on P Street, DC. The show was titled “Standing on Ground Zero” and was writen about in 1984 by Michael Welzenbach in the Washington Post.
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Tom Nakashima 