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|  Japanese born and living in New York City from the 1969s, Shinohara
Ushio is a painter, sculptor and performance artist whose works "from
the early 60s to the present are almost uniformly raucous and
bawdy" (Kopkos) and make little attempt to discriminate between ugly and pretty.
His reputation was that of the enfant terrible of Japan's art
world at that time. I n Tokyo in the late 1950s, Ushio, who had studied
had the Tokyo University of Fine Arts and who rebelled against its
conservatism, was a Neo-Dada
organizer. He had a Mohawk hairdo and participated in performance
events that reflected post-war Japanese culture, which was much focused
on American life. As a result, Ushio reflected the life of both
countries in his artwork with subjects such as cowboys and geishas, and
he lived cross-culturally, traveling often between the continents.
In Tokyo in 1960 and then revived in the 1990s, he did 'boxing
paintings' by using boxing gloves
to punch paint and ink onto canvas, "swinging his way down a canvas or
a series of paper sheets." This activity was then turned into a
performance. He also did 'action sculptures' or 'thunder
sculptures', which were piles of junks that he slashed at ferociously.
Another genre was sculptures of motorcyles and
riders, a result of a fellowship he got to travel in 1969 to America
where he remained. "Motorcycles became his expression of
America." However, his riders often were geishas. He
created the images out of found objects and made them garish,
exaggerated and humorous.
In 1990, the creative work of Ushio Shinohara was the subject of a
traveling exhibition sponsored by the Musuem of Modern Art in Kamakura,
and in 2005, an exhibition, "Shinohara Ushio: Boxing Paintings and
Motorcycle Sculptures", was at the same museum from September 17 to
November 6. Bilingual catalogues accompanied the shows.
Source:
Janet Koplos, "Report From Japan: Clamor and Quiet", Art in America, March 2006, pp. 59-61
Artist Hot News Museum Gallery
http://www.new-york-art.com/e/Ushio-Shinohara.htm
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