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By Rachel Bucci
from Salem Monthly, Section Art
Posted on Tue May 01, 2007 at 02:50:35 AM PDT
To our south, Oregon State University has been quietly playing host to an impressive array of internationally recognized visiting artists who are brought to campus for workshops, studio critiques, exhibitions and public lectures. In May, as part of this program, the University's Fairbanks Gallery will showcase the work of Tom Nakashima, who has shown his work worldwide and is included in many collections, including the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Corcoran Gallery of Art, both in Washington, DC.Nakashima's large scale landscapes -- elaborately wrought "portraits" of fallen trees, piles of branches and limbs -- are composed of collaged newspaper (in some cases he specifically references the source, such as The Washington Post), ink-dyed newsprint and painted grid marks. Nakashima has two works on view at OSU, both over eight feet high. One is 13 feet wide the other is 24 feet wide. This scale, and the detail in the work, gives each piece a powerful presence, simultaneously inviting close examination and pushing the viewer away to take in the whole. Anyone with an interest in landscape painting and drawing will enjoy Nakashima's unique take on the subject.
There will be an artist talk May 9 at 7 p.m. in the LaSells Stewart Center, preceded at 6 p.m. by a reception. Both are free and open to the public.
"Tom Nakashima: Recent Work" will be on view May 7-30 at the Fairbanks Gallery, located in Fairbanks Hall, at the corner of SW 26th Street and SW Jefferson Way at OSU. Gallery hours are Mon-Fri, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. For more information call (541) 737-4745.
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