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TOM NAKASHIMA
b. 1941Painter and printmaker Tom Nakashima is an internationally exhibited artist who has had over 30 solo exhibitions. His work has appeared or been reviewed in Art in America, Art Forum International, Art News, The Washington Post, The Paris Review, The Los Angeles Times The New Art Examiner and Elle Magazine.
His numerous awards include The Joan Mitchell Foundation Award for Painters and Sculptors; Award in the Visual Arts, The Southeast Center for Contemporary Art; Mid-Atlantic Virginia Art Commission Individual Artist Award (two times) and the District of Columbia Arts Commission Fellowship (three times). Nakashima's work is in the collections of the Corcoran Gallery of Art, The Smithsonian's American Art Museum, the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum of Rutgers University and the Nelson Fine Arts Center of Arizona State University. and other museums.
Nakashima is Professor Emeritus of the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. He is currently serving a five-year term as the William S. Morris Eminent Scholar in Art at Augusta State University in Augusta, Georgia.
Doubled Stewart's Sticks (diptych), 2006
Vitreograph on Rives BFK White, Edition of 20
image size: 20 x 56 inches
paper size: 21 x 56 inches (assembled as pictured) $2,500*
Doubled Stewart's Sticks is one of a continuing series of works titled "Stewart's Sticks." Nakashima is well known for his large scale drawings and prints of tree piles. These were begun in 1999 when he moved his studio to the small town of Berryville, Virginia, about 70 miles outside Washington, DC. Although it was still a small town, Nakashima says that Berryville was fast becoming a commuter community for people working in the software industry based in Dulles, Virginia. Berryville's orchards were being bulldozed to make way for subdivisions. Nakashima was struck by the mountainous piles of trees that resulted from these mass uprootings and took photographs of several of these piles, three of which form the basis of a continuing series of paintings, collages, drawings and prints.
Nakashima transfers his photographic source material by means of a grid to his huge canvases, some of which are 24 feet wide. Though the print format of Doubled Stewart's Sticks is smaller, Nakashima's use of the grid as a compositional device can clearly be seen. The artist treats each square (there are 102 of them) as a complete composition n its own right. His use of a patchwork of digital photos of land and sky overlaid with the rich black tones of his etching divides the pile as though into separate moments in time.
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The Devil Came Down to Georgia, 2006
Vitreograph on Rives BFK White, Edition of 40
image size: 16 x 36 inches; paper size: 17 x 36 inches $1,800*
Nakashima saw this Georgia storefront as a backdrop for an American folk tale. The title of the print was suggested to him by the Charlie Daniels Band song, "The Devil went down to Georgia," which spins a yarn about the Devil being bested in a fiddle contest.
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Orchard House Dusk, 2006
Vitreograph on Rives BFK White, Edition of 40
image size: 20 x 29 inches; paper size: 20 ½ x 29 inches $1,500*
This house was revealed to passersby when the orchard surrounding it was being torn up. Nakashima says that the building once held migrant workers and was also used as a cider house. The artist says that he bases his images on things that startle or fascinate him. He explores two or three such images a year using a variety of materials and techniques.
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Orchard House Dusk (black and white), 2006
Vitreograph on Rives BFK White, Edition of 40
image size: 20 x 29 inches; paper size: 20 ½ x 29 inches $1,000*
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