JUSFC Artist's Residency, Tokyo, Japan March-August
2006
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NOW AVAILABLE:
FREDDIE: DIS Publications
a 38 page artists book: Edition of 30
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NOW AVAILABLE:
SEIJO: DIS Publications
a
28 page artists
book: Edition of 30
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Dean Sameshima
IVAN : DIS Publications
a 46 page, artists book, edition of 30
Now available - email me for information
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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.
Limited quantities left. Email me for availability
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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.
VERY Limited amount left. Email me for availability.