Posted by Glenn on Friday, May 21, 2010
A companion exhibit, the Augusta State University Faculty Invitational, will also open on May 25, and features artwork by Nakashima’s colleagues at Augusta State University.
The exhibits will be on view at The Hudgens through September 25.
“This is the second exhibition of Tom’s work that I have curated and it’s been exciting to see the direction his work has taken over the years. Several of his large collage pieces will be included in this exhibition; the scale of which is very impressive. I am thrilled to be able to share his beautiful, intricate and timely artwork with this community.”
Born in Seattle, Washington, Nakashima has served as the William S. Morris Eminent Scholar in Art at ASU for the past five years, a position which expires June 30th. He is a painter/printmaker who has exhibited internationally and has works in art museums and private collections worldwide, including The Corcoran Gallery of Art and The Smithsonian.
Nakashima works in many different media. Many of his works are large scale, covering entire gallery walls, and are carefully gridded artworks composed of hundreds if not thousands of small bits of magazine pages, placed with a precise eye for color and shading to create a mosaic image with incredible depth and impact.
His works address complex, interconnected relationships through images that are representational at first glance, but become increasingly abstract and unknowable to the observant viewer.
The Augusta State Faculty exhibit features works in a large variety of media, including painting, drawing, printmaking, sculpture and photography, by Kristin Casaletto, Jackson Cheatham, Priscilla Hollingsworth, Alan C. MacTaggart, Philip Morsberger (Professor Emeritus and former Morris Scholar), Jennifer Onofrio, Raoul Pacheco, Brian Rust, and Janice Williams Whiting.
There will be an Opening Reception on Thursday, May 27, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. The Reception is free and open to the public.
Nakashima will present a lecture about his work on Thursday, September 16 at 6:00 p.m., at The Hudgens. The lecture is presented as part of the Fall into Arts program, sponsored in part by the Gwinnett County Public Library and The Hudgens Center for the Arts.
For more information about Mr. Nakashima, visit his website at www.tomnakashima.com.
The Hudgens Center for the Arts is located at 6400 Sugarloaf Parkway, Bldg. 300, in Duluth, in the Gwinnett Center complex. Visitors should take the Satellite Boulevard entrance.
For more information about art exhibits, events, classes and summer camps at The Hudgens, please visit the website at www.thehudgens.org or call 770-623-6002.