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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Oil on wood box, 16” x 24”. Unknown location.
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16 1/2” x 24”. Unknown location. one of my many painting boxes. The figure and the horse is a collage of an image taken from a beautiful screen in The Cleveland Museum of Art titled “Horses & Their Grooms”. The Vortex is taken from DuChamp and I use it for its intrinsic feeling of a […]
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Mixed media, 25 ½” high.
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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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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 