Devan Shimoyama : all the rage /

Devan Shimoyama : all the rage /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Shimoyama, Devan, 1989- artist, interviewee.
Imprint:	Berlin : Hatje Cantz Verlag, [2021] ©2021
Description:	175 pages : color illustrations, portraits ; 29 cm
Language:	English German
Subject:	Shimoyama, Devan, -- 1989- -- Exhibitions. Shimoyama, Devan, -- 1989- -- Interviews. African American artists -- Exhibitions. African American painters -- Exhibitions. African American art -- 21st century -- Exhibitions. African Americans in art -- Exhibitions. African American art African Americans in art exhibition catalogs. Exhibition catalogs. Exhibition catalogs.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12740489

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Varying Form of Title:	All the rage
Other authors / contributors:	Deiss, Amely, editor, author. Gumbs, Alexis Pauline, 1982- author. Moffitt, Evan, author. Sack, Adriano, author, interviewer. Kunstpalais (Erlangen, Germany), host institution.
ISBN:	9783775751698 3775751696
Notes:	Published on the occasion of an exhibition at Kunstpalais, Erlangen, June 16-November 14, 2021. Text in English and German.
Summary:	Bright paint, sequins, rhinestones, fabric, feathers - and time and again the artist himself in various roles: the material collages of painter Devan Shimoyama are midsummer night's dreams of alternative masculinities. As a homosexual African-American, the artist has an intense connection to themes of the Black community and queer subculture. Shimoyama's works are worlds of neon and glitter; Greek mythology and Black pop culture; spirituality and activism. This catalogue is published to accompany the artist's first institutional solo exhibition in Europe. In addition to numerous illustrations, it includes essays by curator Amely Deiss and art critic Evan Moffitt, poetry by Alexis Pauline Gumbs, and an artist interview with author and journalist Adriano Sack.

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Summary:	A painterly kaleidoscope of Black queer life Bright paint, sequins, rhinestones, fabric, feathers: the paintings of Pittsburgh-based artist Devan Shimoyama (born 1989) resemble midsummer night dreams of alternative masculinities. A graduate of the Yale School of Art, Shimoyama embraces the pain and joy of Black and queer life in psychedelic day-glo colors. The majority of his works depict Black men transposed into allegorical scenes from Greek mythology and tarot imagery (Shimoyama has stated that he wants the figures in his work to be perceived as "both desirable and desirous"); for example, Abduction of Ganymede depicts a figure resembling the artist swept up in the air by Zeus in the form of an eagle. The painting deploys Shimoyama's signature materials: Ganymede's eyes are rhinestones and costume jewelry, and the eagle's wings are gilt. This lavishly designed catalog, produced for his first institutional solo exhibition in Europe, provides an excellent introduction to Shimoyama's electrifying art.
Item Description:	Published on the occasion of an exhibition at Kunstpalais, Erlangen, June 16-November 14, 2021.
Physical Description:	175 pages : color illustrations, portraits ; 29 cm
ISBN:	9783775751698 3775751696