DEAN SAMESHIMA


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Dean Sameshima

647(A)

Published by Dynasty Zine, Athens, Greece, 2009
20 pages 27.5 x 36 cm one color offset
Edition of 150

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Dean Sameshima

Instilled and Lost

A collection of recent works by Dean SAMESHIMA.
With essays by Lisa Lapinski, Lecia Dole Recio, Richard Lidinsky and Stuart Comer.
Published by Peres Projects, Los Angeles Berlin
Paperback with foldout cover, 116 pages
9 x 11.8 inches (23 x 30 cm)
ISBN: 0-9778819-1-1

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JUSFC Artist's Residency, Tokyo, Japan. March-August 2006

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Dean Sameshima
FREDDIE: DIS Publications

a 38 page artists book: Edition of 30

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Dean Sameshima

SEIJO: DIS Publications

a 28 page artists book: Edition of 30

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IVAN


Dean Sameshima

IVAN : DIS Publications
a 46 page, artists book, edition of 30

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YOUNG MEN AT PLAY


Dean Sameshima
Young Men at Play : DIS Publications
Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan - Peres Projects, Los Angeles, CA. 2005

Young Men at Play is the catalogue from Dean Sameshima's 2005 exhibition at Taka Ishii Gallery in Tokyo. The images - of young men cavorting naked - are re-photographed from amateur magazines that circulated illegally in the U.S. in the 1960's. The catalogue itself constitutes an outlaw act given existing censorship laws in Japan and the current conservative political climate in the United States. The work is motivated, in part, by the artist's will to assert and examine the continued existence of underground culture as one amongst multiple "gay cultures". The deluxe edition comes with three photographs - a cowboy, a sailor and a soldier.

Dean Sameshima
Young Men at Play Vol.2 : DIS Publications
Peres Projects, Los Angeles, CA. 2005

Young Men at Play Vol.2 is the second catalogue from Dean Sameshima's 2005 exhibition at Taka Ishii Gallery in Tokyo. The images - of young men cavorting naked - are re-photographed from amateur magazines that circulated illegally in the U.S. in the 1960's. The catalogue itself constitutes an outlaw act given existing censorship laws in Japan and the current conservative political climate in the United States. The work is motivated, in part, by the artist's will to assert and examine the continued existence of underground culture as one amongst multiple "gay cultures". The deluxe edition comes with three photographs of couples printed in rainbow colors including a photograph overprinted with the unnerving text "Homosexuality and Citizenship in Florida : A Report of The Florida Legislative Investigative Committee 1964".

synopsis courtesy of Printed Matter.

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HYSTERIC GLAMOUR


Dean Sameshima
Hysteric Seven
Tokyo, Japan: Hysteric Glamour. 2002

This slim but potent collection of photographs from Dean Sameshima is divided into three chapters that lead seamlessly into one another: the sunbleached, unadorned cement facades of sex clubs make way for the rumpled, sweat-soaked sheets of the empty beds inside, which then open naturally onto the open shirts of the "Modern Boys" whom the artist has cropped just below the eyes. Bruce Hainley's essay, "Jock, Model, Building, Bed," uses Sameshima's photographs as a launching pad for musings on objects of his own desire and the spaces and places of that desire.

synopsis courtesy of Printed Matter.

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