Date/Time
Date(s) - 11/09/2023 - 02/18/2024
12:00 am
Location
August Wilson Center For African-American Culture
Categories
This exhibition is a new endeavor in which Canadian artist Tim Okamura (pictures) imagines an alternate reality — a society that closely mirrors our own, which was once liberated and equitable, but is now experiencing a rapid descent into a state of oppression.
Okamura is an internationally acclaimed artist celebrated for his unique style that combines traditional oil painting techniques with mixed media and elements of abstraction filtered through a contemporary urban perspective. His work focuses on themes of identity, resilience, representation, and community, and has been exhibited around the globe, earning a place in numerous museums and prestigious private collections.
His paintings reimagine the pre-modern Japanese warriors known as Onna-Bugeisha (a.k.a. Onna-Musha). These were a clandestine group of women warriors –— freedom fighters guided by the Bushido, or Code of the Samurai — sworn to battle back the forces of persecution and injustice at all costs.
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