“Mona by The Bathers” 1990
Oil and found objects on canvas, 90” x 95”. Collection of L. Raese.
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“From Lhasa With Love” 1979
Magna on canvas, 63” x 72”. State of West Virginia Collection,
Read More“To Mary Cassatt” 1980
Oil & collage on canvas, 30” x 24”. Unknown collection, sold by Barbara Balkin Dine Arts, Chicago.
Read More“Waiting for Shishin – Scroll” 1988
Ink & collage on scroll, 60” x 14”. Unknown collector.
Read More“Treepile Near Westwood Rd.” 2001
Oil on paper, 25” x 33”.
Read More“Myself as Sea Monster” 1984
Oil & gilding on three-panel byobu, 72” x 72”. Collection of Edward Ifshin
Read More“Twins” 1982
Mixed media on paper, 24” x 24”.
Read More“Martyr & Cage” (dyptich) 2019
I 1st used the chicken cage image as a metaphor for Minidoka and other internment (concentration) camps. There was this bullshit excuse that my relatives were interned to “protect” them from the anger of other Americans. It’s like saying we put chickens in cages to protect them from the fox. I think of the figure […]
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 […]
Read More“Barrier Against The Wind” (frontice) 2019
This painting is done in a modified technique I developed to mimic the traditional Japanese byobu (folding screen). While the hinging and panels are more or less traditional it is painted with oil and gilded leaf on panels. The left panel displays a figure of a martyr in a cart I drew from a German […]
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