Young Artists Are Following A Path Away From Painting Towards Fiber

Many of Roy DeCarava’s pictures embrace darkness, which he prized for the way in which that it might produce so many alternative tonalities. The darkest of all the photographs he took, Hallway, contains a corridor that seemingly extends deep into the space, a set of lights providing small, barely useful spots of illumination along the way. In actuality, this boy was no outcast—he was Colin Wood, son of the famed tennis player Sidney Wood. Still, Colin once told the Washington Post that the photograph reflected “a common feeling of …

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His work is typified in this triptych, combining the artist’s signature avatar Mr. DOB, who sits centrally poised and tragically laughing. 727 is a reference to the Boeing American airplanes that flew over Murakami’s childhood residence whereas heading to U.S. navy bases, a direct nod to the U.S. presence in post-WWII Japan that he often revisits in his art. Through this type of work, he crafts a subtle critique of Japan’s contemporary consciousness as nicely as the West’s intruding influence upon it.

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