Roger Shimomura: An American Knockoff
Name:
Roger Shimomura: An American Knockoff
Date:
September 19, 2014 - December 13, 2014
Website:
http://museum.wsu.edu
Event Description:
Roger Shimomura: An American Knockoff
The Washington State University Museum of Art is thrilled to present a survey exhibition of the work of Lawrence, Kansas-based artist, Roger Shimomura, whose paintings and prints address sociopolitical issues of Asian America. He does this through a painting style that combines his childhood interest in comic books, American Pop Art and traditions of Japanese woodblock prints, thereby evoking his Japanese ancestry while locating him firmly within modern American artistic developments.
Our exhibition focuses on Shimomura's most recent series, An American Knockoff (2009-present), in which the artist inserts himself as an aging Asian Everyman in various guises, both funny and poignant. He does this as an imposter in or a battler against a host or ironic, stereotypical settings: punching at a gaggle of Disney cartoon characters, joining Chinese Mao-era brigades, attaching Japanese stereotypes and assuming identities of such iconic American figures as Superman, George Washington, and Dick Tracy.
The Washington State University Museum of Art is thrilled to present a survey exhibition of the work of Lawrence, Kansas-based artist, Roger Shimomura, whose paintings and prints address sociopolitical issues of Asian America. He does this through a painting style that combines his childhood interest in comic books, American Pop Art and traditions of Japanese woodblock prints, thereby evoking his Japanese ancestry while locating him firmly within modern American artistic developments.
Our exhibition focuses on Shimomura's most recent series, An American Knockoff (2009-present), in which the artist inserts himself as an aging Asian Everyman in various guises, both funny and poignant. He does this as an imposter in or a battler against a host or ironic, stereotypical settings: punching at a gaggle of Disney cartoon characters, joining Chinese Mao-era brigades, attaching Japanese stereotypes and assuming identities of such iconic American figures as Superman, George Washington, and Dick Tracy.
