Art Archive
Mixed media, 18” x 10” x 8”. Artist’s collection. In Iowa I would occasionally visit someone’s farm buildings. They always gave me the creeps. Something sinister about all the things hidden in a hay loft. Ropes, chains, hooks, pitch forks lurking in the darkness. I always imagined a lynching ….. or being trampled by a […]
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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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Merton Boyd Gallery, Columbus, OH. Wood and plywood replica of vintage Japanese ‘Zero’ airplane painted pink and yellow. Construction team included Bill Roseberry, Denny McCoy, Rick Sadlier and Roy Palmer. The flag was a pink and yellow Japanese flag. I pretended I couldn’t speak English for a TV interview. I was wearing aviation goggles and […]
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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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Acrylic and gilding on formed paper. 6″ height. Collection of Patrice and Herb Miller, Wash., D.C.
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Tom Nakashima 