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Roger Shimomura @ the Blanton
Since the 1960s, Japanese American artist Roger Shimomura has probed the socio-political issues surrounding the Asian American experience by combining images from both American and Japanese culture.
Shimomura presents a tangled aesthetic landscape that through its jumble actually reveals much about a conflicting cultural situation. Superman meets geisha and classic cartoon characters clash with traditional Japanese figures in the artist’s layered prints and paintings.
Shimomura gives a talk on his work as part of the Lectures in Art and Diaspora: Asian In America series.
5 p.m. Tuesday
Auditorium, Blanton Museum of Art, Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. and Congress Ave.
Free
www.blantonmuseum.org
Image: ‘After the Movies, No. 1,’ 1993. Acrylic on canvas, 48 x 56 inches, diptych
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