Roger Shimomura

More Little White Lies

February 15 - March 30, 2024

Opening Reception: “First Thursday,” March 7, 6-8pm

Greg Kucera Gallery is very pleased to announce our fourteenth exhibition of work by Roger Shimomura. Titled More Little White Lies, this exhibition is a sequel to his 2021 gallery exhibition 100 Little White Lies. Again presenting a suite of 12 inch square acrylic paintings, these all made in 2022, the paintings juxtapose such disparate images as the artist’s self-portrait, Disney characters, riffs on masterpiece paintings by Lichtenstein and 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 contemporary artworks hang on the walls of internment barracks, Marilyn Monroe dons the face coverings of a pandemic response, or the silhouette of the artist as a boy renders Camp Minidoka to a canvas.

Work in exhibition