Jason Salavon

August 30, 2024–September 28, 2024

Seattle Post-Intelligencer – Roger Shimomura’s Internment Camp Memories Are Layered with Emotions

When Shirley Temple was everybody’s darling, Roger Shimomura was a toddler behind barbed wire. Although he has circled this childhood trauma for nearly a decade, only now has he given the lost world of his incarcerated youth a full measure of tragic resonance in a new series of paintings titled “Minidoka on My Mind” at […]

Art Ltd. – Roger Shimomura: Minidoka on my Mind

SEATTLERoger Shimomura: “Minidoka On My Mind” at Greg Kucera Gallery Roger Shimomura’s series of paintings on the Japanese-American internment camps of World War II, “Minidoka on My Mind,” won’t open in New York until May, at the Flomenhaft Gallery, but Greg Kucera Gallery debuted the series in Seattle late last year. The 30 paintings and […]

Northwest Asian Weekly – Roger Shimomura, artist on a mission

Ming Fay

Ming Fay’s oversized, realistic, painted bronze cherries, apples, and chili peppers are what you might call “aesthetically modified fruits and vegetables.” The artist himself has described his jungle-like, room-sized environments as “mythical folk gardens,” and in 2005 the New York Times called his installation, “Ramapo Garden of Desire,” at Ramapo College, Mahwah, New Jersey, “…one […]

Art in America – Raymond Jonson at Peyton Wright

In 1909, Raymond Jonson (1891-1982) became the first pupil to enroll in the new Museum Art School in Portland, Ore. Although he left the following year for Chicago, his initial training under Kate Simmons, a former student of the influential art educator Arthur Wesley Dow, impressed upon the young Jonson an esthetic derived from Dow’s […]

Art in America – Takeshi Kawashima at Mitchell Algus

Some of the earliest of Takeshi Kawashima’s works included in this absorbing exhibition established a grid-oriented trajectory. The show began with eight small, untitled drawings in pencil, ink and gouache dating from the mid-1950s to 1961, preceding the artist’s 1963 emigrationfrom Japan to New York, where he established permanent residence. One casually limned pencil drawing […]

The Independent – Sol LeWitt

On the evening of 24 February 2000, Sol LeWitt took part in an odd event at Brandeis University in Massachussetts. Before a mesmerized audience, the artist pried open a box holding a work he had interred in it 25 years before. This turned out to be another box – a one-inch cube of white paper […]

Photo Insider – Feature Story #1: Duane Michals

Life is too short to be distracted by the pesky, mundane questions that plague most photographers: “How can I get this model to smile without showing her teeth?” or, “Does this house look better with or without the little red wagon in front?” So think hard, think deep and ask new questions. As a photographer, […]

Art in America – Hong Hao at Chambers

Hong Hao was born in China in 1965, on the eve of the Cultural Revolution, which stifled independent creative activity. An intensely witty and sophisticated graphic artist and photographer whose work celebrates the tradition of the artist’s book in contemporary Western and ancient Chinese forms, Hong graduated from the printmaking department at Beijing’s Academy of […]

John Ruppert at the Chicago Cultural Center

Vulcan, patron of smiths, is also John Ruppert’s muse. Fascinated by the earth’s magma and its geological extrusions, and drawn to the industrial forge, which mimics the process of vulcanism, Ruppert casts his sculptures in aluminum, bronze and iron. His obdurate forms can address themselves to nature or to the brawny technology of heavy manufacturing; […]

Robert Mangold

Robert Mangold can be classified as a true master among a very exclusive group of sculptors working with a kinetic vocabulary. Kinetic art, an art style found in sculpture that involves moveable parts, sometimes motorized pieces, shifting lights, sounds, etc., was promoted by a small group of avant-garde artists in the post-World War II period. […]

Walter Dusenbery – A Sculptor in Love with Form

Honda Syoryu (2017)
Tanioka Shigeo & Tanioka Aiko
Yako Hodo
The Next Generation
Nagakura Kenichi (2007)
Nagakura Kenichi (2013)
Honda Syoryu
Tanaka Kyokusho (2015)
ZEN: Tanabe Shochiku x Wakamiya Takashi
Fujitsuka Shosei – Cosmos
A Sensei and his Students: Baba Shodo, Fujitsuka Shosei & Yako Hodo
Nagakura Kenichi (2009)
Yamaguchi Ryuun
Kibe Seiho
Monden Koyoku & Yuichi: Father & Son 107 Years of Bamboo Art
Nagakura Kenichi (2011)
The Hayakawa Shokosai Lineage: 150 Years of Artistry
Legacy of Inspiration: Shono Shounsai and His Students
Sado Contemporary: Sculpture by Honma Hideaki & Watanabe Chiaki
Emerging Bamboo
Nagakura Kenichi (2016)
Fujinuma Noboru (2013)
Oita’s Art Movement