Zephyr is the first major solo museum exhibition of the provocative and visually stunning work of the acclaimed young Los Angeles artist Gajin Fujita. His paintings are elaborate fusions of contemporary urban street life and traditional Japanese iconography. The past and present, high art and pop culture, and Eastern and Western aesthetics exist in harmony in Fujita’s paintings, demonstrating the artist’s masterful ability to create visual metaphors for today’s global hybridized society. Organized by Kemper Museum curator Elizabeth Dunbar, the exhibition surveys nearly a decade of Fujita’s dazzling works. A full color, scholarly catalogue was also produced in conjunction with the exhibition. Gajin Fujita was a visiting artist at the Kemper Museum.
Above: Gajin Fujita, Ride or Die, 2005; spray paint, acrylic, paint marker, Mean Streak paint stick, gold and white gold leaf on wood panel, 83 x 126 inches (six panels); Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO, Bebe and Crosby Kemper Collection; Museum Purchase, Enid and Crosby Kemper and William T. Kemper Acquisition Fund, 2005.39 |
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