“Memories Byõbu” Verso 1991
Oil & gilding on byõbu, 18” x 144”. @Bernice Steinbaum.
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“Queequeg and Moby” 1999
Oil & gilding on byõbu, 14” x 36”. Collection of Sarah Cohen. i was always fascinated by Queequeg. He filled the bill for what men once called a noble savage. With his tattooed face he seemed more like Moby than like his fellow sailors. He was really much more part of nature and more kin […]
Read More“Coffin-Cage Byõbu” 1992
Oil & gilding on byõbu, 14” x 48”.
Read More“Memories Byõbu” 1991
Oil & gilding on byõbu, 18” x 144”. Bernice Steinbaum collection. My friend Marty Amt rescued these wooden cores for this byobu from the dumpster behind the Smithsonian’s Freer Gallery. The were sugi (Japanese cedar) at least 200 years old and they sat inside a beautiful black lacquer box. The cores are the skeleton of […]
Read More“Jeanne d’Arc” 1997
Oil on fusuma (sliding screen), 108” x 123”. Fusuma structure designed and crafted by Mira Nakashima of George Nakashima Woodworkers collection of the artist.
Read More“Woman, Vortex & Minotaur” 2002
Oil and mixed media on byōbu screen, 18” x 42”. Collection of Gail and John Enns, Monterey, CA.
Read More“Sea Monster With Big Moon Coming in Low” 1998
Oil and gilding on byōbu screen, 72” x 96”. Collection of Giorgio Furioso.
Read More“Allegory of The Foregone Conclusion” 1995
Oil on byōbu screen, 20” x 72”. Sold by David Teplitzky.
Read More“Myself as Sea Monster” 1984
Oil & gilding on three-panel byobu, 72” x 72”. Collection of Edward Ifshin
Read More“BARRIER AGAINST THE WIND” (Verso) 2019
This image (the verso side of Barrier Against the Wind) is scratched into wet paint to present Ted Nakashima’s article for The New Republic in 1942. At the time Ted and Mako (his wife) were in temporary internment at Camp Harmony, awaiting transfer to Minidoka Internment Camp in Idaho. Perhaps because of this writing Ted […]
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