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Ushio Shinohara
"Blue on Orange, " Acrylic Paint on Canvas - Abstract Boxing painting

2016

$12,000
£9,112.04
€10,929.43
CA$17,186
A$17,739.98
CHF 9,999.11
MX$229,514.33
NOK 114,079.25
SEK 120,348.59
DKK 81,690.53

About the Item

This simple, yet elegant abstract acrylic painting on un-stretched canvas represents an impressive snapshot of the speed and energy with which Ushio Shinohara approaches his work. Born in Tokyo in 1932, Ushio Shinohara (nicknamed "Gyu-chan"), is a Japanese Neo-Dadaist artist who has lived and worked in the United States since 1969. Shinohara is well known for his boxing paintings, which are made by dipping a pair of custom made boxing gloves into paint and unleashing his fists onto swathes of un-stretched canvas. Ushio works in several mediums including painting, printmaking, drawing and sculpture. In 1960 Ushio Shinohara helped found the Neo-Dadaism Organizers. Their mission: deviate from any conventional form of art. Akin to European Dadaists, who’s art sought to reveal the customary and often repressive conventions of logical order and rationality, the Neo-Dadaism Organizers embodied a similar ethos. This can chiefly be seen in akushon, meaning “action”, which is the practice of emphasizing the human body as an artistic medium. For Ushio Shinohara, this sensibility is encapsulated in what has become his personal trinity “be speedy, beautiful, and rhythmical.” Shinohara's bright and frequently oversized work has exhibited at prestigious institutions internationally, including the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art; Centre Georges Pompidou; the Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Japan Society, New York; the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Busan; the Dallas Museum of Art and the Tate Modern, among others. His work was included in International Pop, a landmark exhibition at the Walker Art Center that chronicles the global emergence of Pop art from the 1950s through the early 1970. In addition to an extensive exhibition history, Ushio Shinohara has also been a prolific performer — demonstrating the process of his boxing paintings live and in-person at various institutions. A selection of Shinohara's performances include the National Museum of Art, Osaka; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; Austria Museum of Applied Art, Vienna; Busan Art Museum, South Korea; Musée d’Art Contemporain, Lyon; The State University of New York at Potsdam; J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Dallas Museum of Art; and Carlton University, Ottawa. Ushio Shinohara "Blue on Orange" 2016 Acrylic Paint on Canvas 19 x 30.5 Inches
  • Creator:
    Ushio Shinohara (1932, Japanese)
  • Creation Year:
    2016
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 19 in (48.26 cm)Width: 30.5 in (77.47 cm)Depth: 0.1 in (2.54 mm)
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  • Gallery Location:
    Houston, TX
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU146827566852

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