“Retablo, Buddha Sleep” 1993
Oil on copper, 8 1/2” x 11”. Unknown location.
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“Retablo, Buddha” 1993
Oil on copper, 8 1/2” x 11”. Unknown location.
Read More“Retablo, Buddha Dark” 1993
Oil on copper, 8 1/2” x 11”. Unknown location.
Read More“Orchardhouse Painted Proof” 2004
Hand-colored intaglio 22” x 30”. Collection of Christine Crookall.
Read More“Monument to Sarajevo” 1993
Mixed media, 32” x 35”. Artist’s collection The pictures of the siege of Sarajevo looked like Dresden. I used newspaper to collage up a sanctuary likeness. To me it felt like silence.
Read More“Orchardhouse Black and White” 2004
Oil on multiple wood panels, 64” x 120”. Artist’s collection. As you may know by now whenever I have the opportunity to paint a structure I won’t pass it by. After moving out of DC to Berryville VA I began painting my ecological series “The Berryville Treepikes”. Included were a few farm buildings that […]
Read More“Orchardhouse #2″ 2003
Oil on multiple wood panels, 32” x 60” Private collection.
Read More“Large Coffin/Cage” 1992
Oil on canvas, 84” x 96”. Artist’s collection. The chicken coups were inspired by the famous photo wreckage of a bus in El Salvador The bus carrying a group of nuns returning from the city after shopping for food. They had all been raped and murdered. Later I got the idea of painting a cage […]
Read More“Kimono” 1976
Magna on raw canvas, 84” x 72”. Stolen – unknown location. I copied the crane pattern from a Noh Hunting kimono that was exhibited at the Smithsonian. It was in the basement at West Virginia University when thieves broke in and cut it off the stretchers. Never seen since 1977.
Read More“On The Day Of The Arrows” 1984
Oil and mixed media, 72” x 44”. Artist’s collection.
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Tom Nakashima 