Archived exhibition
April
26 - May 27, 2006
Arthur Okamura | Paintings
Reception: April 27, 2006, 5-7PM
In his newest exhibition with the Braunstein/Quay
Gallery, Arthur Okamura presents a body of smaller oil paintings,
inspired by the Ahjumawi Lava Springs that are fed by the
volcanic Mount Shasta in Northern California. The paintings
are examples of both abstraction and realism. The measured
upper half of the pictures depicts a realist waterscape scene
while the lower half is its reflection, painted very abstractly.
Also included in the exhibition are
figurative paintings derived from life drawings of nudes
painted into abstract spaces. Arthur Okamura is Professor
Emeritus at the California College of the Arts, San Francisco,
California. His
work is in the permanent collections at the Smithsonian
Institution in Washington, D.C., the Whitney Museum in
New York, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
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