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"Project
Series 27: Kaz Oshiro" Opens at Museum of Art
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The Pomona College Museum of Art is pleased to present Kaz
Oshiro, Project Series 27, on view from August 23 through
October 9. Oshiro transforms paint and canvas into domestic
and utilitarian objects that blur the boundaries between
painting and sculpture, illusion and function. They appear
to be exact replicas of appliances, cabinetry, or
electronics, but are painstakingly made with a painter’s
traditional tools of oil and canvas, supplemented with bondo,
a material that car refinishers commonly use. The opening
reception will be held from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Saturday,
September 10.
 Oshiro
plays with artifice and illusion, presenting a meticulous
three-dimensional reality on a two-dimensional surface,
making clear the underlying structure of the illusion by
revealing the stretcher-bar and canvas of the painting.
Oshiro’s hybrid objects deconstruct the traditions and
heritage of modern art—in particular, painting and pop
art—and confront the illusions and myths of popular culture
in Southern California.
With a vivid pop sensibility, Oshiro’s seemingly mundane
objects reference the history of late twentieth-century
art—Minimalist sculpture, Pop Art, Conceptual Art, and
California Finish Fetish—through the stuff of popular
culture—music, furniture design and fabrication, and car
culture.
In earlier work—replications of Marshall and Peavey
amplifiers, dorm refrigerators, microwave ovens, and trash
cans ornamented with stickers and stains—Oshiro focused on
music and popular culture. His everyday objects told stories
of specific sub-cultures in the music and art worlds,
through combinations of appliance and adornment.
His newer work—replications of wall cabinets, a full-scale
kitchen, and, most recently, washers and dryers—engages
issues of domesticity, design, architecture, and their
relationships to the commodities of popular culture and
private life.
Kaz Oshiro’s exhibition is the twenty-seventh in the Pomona
College Museum of Art’s Project Series, an ongoing program
of focused exhibitions that brings to the Pomona College
campus art that is experimental and that introduces new
forms, techniques, or concepts. The Project Series is
supported by the Pasadena Art Alliance and Sarah Miller
Meigs.
Mr. Oshiro will discuss this work on Wednesday, September 21
at 4:15 p.m. at the museum. The exhibition is accompanied by
a catalogue and coincides with the exhibition “Kaz Oshiro:
Drone” at the Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica.
(over)
The Pomona College Museum of Art, formerly the Montgomery
Art Gallery, is located at 330 N. College Avenue, Claremont.
The museum is open to the public and free of charge, Tuesday
through Friday, from noon to 5 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday
from 1 to 5 p.m. For more information, call (909) 621-8283
or visit www.pomona.edu/museum.
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