Roger Shimomura
100 “Little White Lies”
January 7 - 30, 2021
Opening Reception: “First Thursday,” June 6, 6-8pm
Artist talk: “Saturday After”, June 8 at noon
Greg Kucera Gallery is very pleased to announce our thirteenth exhibition of work by Roger Shimomura. Titled Little White Lies, this exhibition is a suite of one hundred 12 inch square acrylic paintings made in 2019-20. The paintings juxtapose such disparate images as the artist’s self-portrait, Disney characters, riffs on Lichtenstein’s masterpiece paintings, Warhol’s portraits of celebrities, and scenes from Camp Minidoka, where the artist and his family were imprisoned during World War II. The paintings are at times poignant, satirical, playful and full of outrage. Images of the past intermingle with the immediate present as Marilyn Monroe and Liz Taylor don the face coverings of a pandemic response, or the silhouette of Donald Trump looms behind a geisha figure from a ukiyo-e print.
“‘Little White Lies’ is an attempt to make fresh sense out of nonsense, or to discover inherent truths in lies. In many of these events, the untruth can be as, or even more, interesting and meaningful than the truth.”
Work in exhibition
Acrylic on canvas
12 x 12 inches
SOLD