Tim Okamura Exhibition
The National Arts Club
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Gregg Gallery
Tim Okamura’s works, comprising life-sized paintings depicting soulful New York City women, are a compelling exploration of street chic beauty re-imagined within the genre of royal portraiture. He renders his propaganda power queens in loving and reverential detail; however, posed against the gritty facades of still raw borough back streets, these royal heirs to a conflicted culture are persuasively emblematic of a yet unresolved social politic.
Though Okamura can still be considered an artist on the rise, he has been recognized by institutions such as the New York Foundation for the Arts, which awarded him a Fellowship in Painting. His paintings have been accorded a nine time selection for the prestigious BP Portrait Awards Exhibition at London’s National Portrait Gallery and have been chosen for inclusion in several prominent group exhibitions including “After Matisse/Picasso” at the Museum of Modern Art-affiliated P.S.1 in Queens, New York and “The Gentrification of Brooklyn: The Pink Elephant Speaks” at The Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts in Brooklyn. Okamura’s work is also on display in the permanent collections of The Davis Museum at Wellesley College, The Alberta Foundation for the Arts, the Toronto Congress Center, the Hotel Arts in Calgary, Canada and Standard Chartered Bank in London, England.
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Schedule
from February 03, 2014 to March 01, 2014
Opening Reception on 2014-02-04 from 17:00 to 19:00