NICK BUBASH | September 7, 1949 – November 17, 2021
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Obituary At too young of an age and after a brief illness, Nicholas Robert Bubash passed peacefully on November 17, 2021, surrounded by his family and friends. Nick is survived by his beautiful, talented, and loving daughters, Isabella and Georgia Bubash, whom he carried in his heart; his beloved sisters, Mary Kruse (Gary […]
New Additions to the AP/RC: Margo Kren
Artist Printmaker/Photographer Research Collection ● AP/RC ● Art Division of the Museum of Texas Tech University Kren created this suite of lithographs, Dreams and Memories, with Mike Sims of Lawrence Lithography Workshop now located in Kansas City. Concerning this suite, she observed that, “(It) evolved in the early 1980’s while I was working on a […]
New Additions to the AP/RC: Lawrence Lithography Workshop
While the AP/RC focuses almost exclusively on printmakers who directly control their work from conceptualization through printing, on occasion we add artworks to the collection which were printed at a professional fine art print shop such as Lawrence Lithography Workshop (Missouri), Tamarind Institute (University of New Mexico), P.R.I.N.T. (University of North Texas), Flatbed Press (Texas), […]
A Minute Exhibit: Roger Shimomura: By Looking Back, We Look Forward
Explore the exhibition Roger Shimomura: By Looking Back, We Look Forward from your home with the JSMA’s video series, A Minute Exhibit. Over his long and prolific career, distinguished American artist and educator Roger Shimomura has channeled his outrage and despair into beautiful, provocative, often irreverent, and sometimes inflammatory art. He uses a brightly […]
Benito Huerta : Silence
Benito Huerta at CreativeMornings Fort Worth, December 2019 Benito Huerta is an artist, and a professor at the University of Texas at Arlington where he has been Director and Curator of The Gallery at UTA since 1997. His work is included in the Menil Collection, the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Albuquerque Museum of […]
Superman, World War II, and Japanese-American experience (Roger Shimomura, Diary: December 12, 1941)
Roger Shimomura, Diary: December 12, 1941, 1980, acrylic on canvas, 127.6 x 152.4 cm (Smithsonian American Art Museum, gift of the artist, © Roger Shimomura). A conversation with Dr. Sarah Newman, James Dicke Curator of Contemporary Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum, and Dr. Beth Harris. This Seeing America video was made possible by a generous […]
Tom Gregg: Still Lifes for Tense Times
Alice Thorson, May 1, 2019 Grenades and a MAGA hat, apples and playing cards. They’re all fair game for inclusion in the paintings of well-known Kansas City artist Tom Gregg, whose luminous, enigmatic still lifes have been mystifying and enchanting art lovers in Kansas City and beyond for the better part of 25 years. In […]
With America As His Muse, Kansas Painter Roger Shimomura Gives People Something ‘Stirring’
KCUR | By Julie Denesha Published April 5, 2019 at 5:00 AM CDT LISTEN: https://www.kcur.org/arts-life/2019-04-05/with-america-as-his-muse-kansas-painter-roger-shimomura-gives-people-something-stirring Julie Denesha / KCUR 89.3FM Artist Roger Shimomura’s new show ‘Roger Shimomura: American Muse,’ subverts Asian American stereotypes with Pop Art. Roger Shimomura says he’s found “the deeper meaning of life in Pop Art.” Shimomura is one of the area’s most […]
Artist Pages – Russell Ferguson: “Data Riven”
KC STUDIO | Alice Thorson | March 20, 2017 Marc Wilson, former director and CEO of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, called Russell Ferguson “one of the great draftsmen of his generation.” The longtime Kansas City artist is also a profound thinker, whose artworks embed a lifetime of travel and quest. For the past two […]
Roger Shimomura: Mistaken Identity
January 27 – March 10, 2017 Macalester’s Law Warschaw Gallery, together with the Twin Cities Japanese American Citizens League, are pleased to present an exhibition from prolific American artist Roger Shimomura. Throughout his extensive career, Shimomura’s work has provided stealth commentary addressing sociopolitical issues of ethnicity. The exhibition includes a range of works on paper […]