Mostre, Stati Uniti, Los Angeles, 08 September 2012
Masami Teraoka: The Cloisters Last Supper at Samuel Freeman September 8 - October 13, 2012 at new location in Los Angeles, CA. USA
http://samuelfreeman.com.s152796.gridserver.com/exhibitions/masami-teraoka-2012/
Samuel Freeman is pleased to announce a solo exhibition by Masami Teraoka: The Cloisters Last Supper. This exhibition marks the artist’s 3rd solo exhibition with Samuel Freeman, and the gallery’s inaugural show in its new Culver City location.
The exhibition will present a selection of new, monumentally scaled, narrative style triptych paintings from the artist’s ongoing Cloisters Last Supper series. A select number of paintings, drawings and screen prints from Teraoka’s mid-career, Japan-themed works will also be presented, providing a context for his development across a 40 year career span. Also included will be a selection of recent large-scale tapestries based on key works from this period.
Teraoka first attracted attention in the 1960‘s with his early work—graphically vibrant watercolor paintings that fused traditional Japanese iconography in the style of Edo period ukiyo-e woodblock prints with then-contemporary icons from a distinctly American culture. These works, produced during his first years in Los Angeles, explored the collision of two contrasting cultures and eras, as in the series McDonald’s Hamburgers Invading Japan. While the iconography was specific, the commentary was directed at society as a whole. This was to change in the late 1980’s. As the world grappled with the rise of the AIDS virus, the artist turned his full attention to the issue, incorporating the fears around this new “sexual” disease as his primary subject matter. The resulting AIDS Series – still rendered in the traditional Japanese style – marked the change from general cultural criticism to pointed, topic-centered work for Teraoka.
In the mid 1990’s Teraoka narrowed his focus even further, embarking on an effort to shed light on the rampant abuses of the Catholic Church and to thematically incorporate other prominent public scandals into his work. In order to most provocatively evoke specific incidents and individuals, Teraoka adopted the 15th century European language of religious triptychs, rich in both symbolism and narrative specificity, with a blatantly medieval tone surprisingly appropriate for the subject matter. Figures referencing Kenneth Starr, Dick Cheney and Bill Clinton appeared in varying states of disguise, embroiled in scandal and denial, while Tailhook, Monica Lewinsky, and the Twin Towers of Babel were transformed into scriptural allegories representative of the conflicted cultural times. This major stylistic transformation enabled Teraoka to mine a particular thematic preoccupation, one he continues to explore to date. In his 2009 exhibition at Samuel Freeman, The Cloisters Confessions, Teraoka made visual reference to countless grotesqueries committed in the name of ‘faith’, where decrepit and celibate men howled impotently about abortion, and child abuse was used to sublimate the priestly fear of women.
In The Cloisters Last Supper, the narrative takes up “after the sins have been revealed”. These new works deftly weave together exaggerated contemporary references—including priests secretly galavanting in thigh high stockings and pumps—with an arcane and sinister iconography, emphasizing Teraoka’s view of the Catholic Church at a critical crossroads, with any chances at true modernization most likely long-passed. With the ongoing saga of sex abuse scandals, coverups, and out-of-touch moral codes for behavior, in Teraoka’s view the overt contradiction between the liturgy of the Church and the intolerable actions of members of its clergy cries out for critical interrogation.
Currently a resident of Hawaii, Masami Teraoka was born in 1936 in Onamichi, Japan, and first received his BA in Aesthetics from Kwansei Gakuin University, Kobe, Japan. He moved to Los Angeles in his twenties, where he received his BFA and MFA from the Otis Art Institute. The subject of an upcoming traveling solo exhibition, Masami Teraoka: Drawings and New Paintings, organized by the Honolulu Academy of Art, Teraoka has been widely exhibited and reviewed internationally, with solo shows at institutions such as the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Smithsonian, and the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. His work is owned by numerous public collections such as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the Tate Modern in London. He is represented by Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, with Samuel Freeman in Los Angeles.
- Samuel Freeman
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Masami Teraoka: The Cloisters Inquisition September 13 - October 24, 2012. (Art )Amalgamate in Chelsea, New York.
Opening Artist Reception September 13th, 6 – 8pm
p://artamalgamated.com/current-exhibition.html
(Art) Amalgamated is delighted to present Masami Teraoka: Cloisters Inquisition, a tightly curated selection of works highlighting selected points in Teraoka’s artistic career. This exhibition features woodblock prints, works on paper and paintings, spanning over thirty years of the artist’s transnational social commentary, in his first solo show in New York since 2000.
A wry cultural observer, Masami Teraoka takes his inspiration from a wide range of styles, eras, and genres. Seen here are works that sometimes humorously, sometimes
darkly, provide narratives that explore contested social issues. The collision of Japanese and American culture in the 70’s and 80’s, as seen in 31 Flavors Invading Japan (1980- 82) and Sarah and Octopus/Seventh Heaven (2001), the international catastrophe of the AIDS epidemic in AIDS series/Geisha in Ofuro (2010) and the reproductive rights of women in The Cloisters/Pilgrim (2010) are only some of the subjects addressed. Teraoka continually melds culturally specific iconography with contemporary global vernacular, mocking any placid acceptance of our incredibly fallible human condition.
Throughout his career, Teraoka has masterfully absorbed and appropriated at least four historic styles. Artistically evolving from the exploration of the Ukiyo-e tradition of his native Japan, to Europe and the panel paintings of the Northern Renaissance and Hieronimus Bosch, to the Heaven and Hellseries of photographer Andres Serrano. Masami Teraoka creates what he calls a “cross-epoch conversation.” His committed adherence to a high standard of compositional aesthetics ensures that while his commentary and subject vocabulary disturbs and provokes, it does so in a cohesively exquisite manner.
Masami Teraoka was born in 1939 in Onomichi, Hiroshima prefecture, Japan. He received his B.A. in aesthetics from Kwansei Gakuin University in 1959, after which he attended the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles, receiving a B.F.A. and ultimately an M.F.A. in 1968. In 1980 he relocated to Hawaii, where he continues to reside. Masami Teraoka’s works can be found in over 50 public collections, including Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, Tate Modern, London, England and Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC.
Teraoka’s work has been presented in more than 100 exhibitions worldwide, including Masami Teraoka, New Albion Gallery, Surry Hills, Australia, 2012, Masami Teraoka, Samuel Freeman, Los Angeles, California, 2012, The Last Super/The Inversion of the Sacred, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, California (2010), Rebels and Renegades, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon (2006), Paintings by Masami Teraoka, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. (1996) and Masami Teraoka, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York (1980, travel to Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, California).
- Art Amalgamated
http://samuelfreeman.com.s152796.gridserver.com/exhibitions/masami-teraoka-2012/
Samuel Freeman is pleased to announce a solo exhibition by Masami Teraoka: The Cloisters Last Supper. This exhibition marks the artist’s 3rd solo exhibition with Samuel Freeman, and the gallery’s inaugural show in its new Culver City location.
The exhibition will present a selection of new, monumentally scaled, narrative style triptych paintings from the artist’s ongoing Cloisters Last Supper series. A select number of paintings, drawings and screen prints from Teraoka’s mid-career, Japan-themed works will also be presented, providing a context for his development across a 40 year career span. Also included will be a selection of recent large-scale tapestries based on key works from this period.
Teraoka first attracted attention in the 1960‘s with his early work—graphically vibrant watercolor paintings that fused traditional Japanese iconography in the style of Edo period ukiyo-e woodblock prints with then-contemporary icons from a distinctly American culture. These works, produced during his first years in Los Angeles, explored the collision of two contrasting cultures and eras, as in the series McDonald’s Hamburgers Invading Japan. While the iconography was specific, the commentary was directed at society as a whole. This was to change in the late 1980’s. As the world grappled with the rise of the AIDS virus, the artist turned his full attention to the issue, incorporating the fears around this new “sexual” disease as his primary subject matter. The resulting AIDS Series – still rendered in the traditional Japanese style – marked the change from general cultural criticism to pointed, topic-centered work for Teraoka.
In the mid 1990’s Teraoka narrowed his focus even further, embarking on an effort to shed light on the rampant abuses of the Catholic Church and to thematically incorporate other prominent public scandals into his work. In order to most provocatively evoke specific incidents and individuals, Teraoka adopted the 15th century European language of religious triptychs, rich in both symbolism and narrative specificity, with a blatantly medieval tone surprisingly appropriate for the subject matter. Figures referencing Kenneth Starr, Dick Cheney and Bill Clinton appeared in varying states of disguise, embroiled in scandal and denial, while Tailhook, Monica Lewinsky, and the Twin Towers of Babel were transformed into sc
In The Cloisters Last Supper, the narrative takes up “after the sins have been revealed”. These new works deftly weave together exaggerated contemporary references—including priests secretly galavanting in thigh high stockings and pumps—with an arcane and sinister iconography, emphasizing Teraoka’s view of the Catholic Church at a critical crossroads, with any chances at true modernization most likely long-passed. With the ongoing saga of sex abuse scandals, coverups, and out-of-touch moral codes for behavior, in Teraoka’s view the overt contradiction between the liturgy of the Church and the intolerable actions of members of its clergy cries out for critical interrogation.
Currently a resident of Hawaii, Masami Teraoka was born in 1936 in Onamichi, Japan, and first received his BA in Aesthetics from Kwansei Gakuin University, Kobe, Japan. He moved to Los Angeles in his twenties, where he received his BFA and MFA from the Otis Art Institute. The subject of an upcoming traveling solo exhibition, Masami Teraoka: Drawings and New Paintings, organized by the Honolulu Academy of Art, Teraoka has been widely exhibited and reviewed internationally, with solo shows at institutions such as the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Smithsonian, and the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. His work is owned by numerous public collections such as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, and the Tate Modern in London. He is represented by Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, with Samuel Freeman in Los Angeles.
- Samuel Freeman
__________________________________________
Masami Teraoka: The Cloisters Inquisition September 13 - October 24, 2012. (Art )Amalgamate in Chelsea, New York.
Opening Artist Reception September 13th, 6 – 8pm
p://artamalgamated.com/current-exhibition.html
(Art) Amalgamated is delighted to present Masami Teraoka: Cloisters Inquisition, a tightly curated selection of works highlighting selected points in Teraoka’s artistic career. This exhibition features woodblock prints, works on paper and paintings, spanning over thirty years of the artist’s transnational social commentary, in his first solo show in New York since 2000.
A wry cultural observer, Masami Teraoka takes his inspiration from a wide range of styles, eras, and genres. Seen here are works that sometimes humorously, sometimes
darkly, provide narratives that explore contested social issues. The collision of Japanese and American culture in the 70’s and 80’s, as seen in 31 Flavors Invading Japan (1980- 82) and Sarah and Octopus/Seventh Heaven (2001), the international catastrophe of the AIDS epidemic in AIDS series/Geisha in Ofuro (2010) and the reproductive rights of women in The Cloisters/Pilgrim (2010) are only some of the subjects addressed. Teraoka continually melds culturally specific iconography with contemporary global vernacular, mocking any placid acceptance of our incredibly fallible human condition.
Throughout his career, Teraoka has masterfully absorbed and appropriated at least four historic styles. Artistically evolving from the exploration of the Ukiyo-e tradition of his native Japan, to Europe and the panel paintings of the Northern Renaissance and Hieronimus Bosch, to the Heaven and Hellseries of photographer Andres Serrano. Masami Teraoka creates what he calls a “cross-epoch conversation.” His committed adherence to a high standard of compositional aesthetics ensures that while his commentary and subject vocabulary disturbs and provokes, it does so in a cohesively exquisite manner.
Masami Teraoka was born in 1939 in Onomichi, Hiroshima prefecture, Japan. He received his B.A. in aesthetics from Kwansei Gakuin University in 1959, after which he attended the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles, receiving a B.F.A. and ultimately an M.F.A. in 1968. In 1980 he relocated to Hawaii, where he continues to reside. Masami Teraoka’s works can be found in over 50 public collections, including Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York, Tate Modern, London, England and Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC.
Teraoka’s work has been presented in more than 100 exhibitions worldwide, including Masami Teraoka, New Albion Gallery, Surry Hills, Australia, 2012, Masami Teraoka, Samuel Freeman, Los Angeles, California, 2012, The Last Super/The Inversion of the Sacred, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, California (2010), Rebels and Renegades, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon (2006), Paintings by Masami Teraoka, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. (1996) and Masami Teraoka, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York (1980, travel to Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, California).
- Art Amalgamated
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