NEWS
Sol LeWitt and Conceptual Feedback
Sol LeWitt and 'Conceptual Feedback' at Honor Fraser Gallery
Los Angeles Times
By Christopher Knight
March 28, 2018
Kaz Oshiro
Legacies
Exhibition: August 15-September 30, 2017
Cal State LA Fine Arts Gallery
Kaz Oshiro
The First Karaoke: Enka!
Installation by Bruce Yonemoto
Exhibition: February 26–April 2, 2017
Doizaki Gallery, Japanese American Cultural
& Community Center
Kaz Oshiro
Working Title: 10,020,000
Exhibition: February 15–March 17, 2017
Sam Francis Gallery at Crossroads School
Kaz Oshiro
Back to Mulholland Drive
Exhibition: January 1 – April 23, 2017
La Panacée, Contemporary Art Center of the City of Montpellier
Glenn Kaino, Kaz Oshiro, Ry Rocklen, Mario Ybarra Jr., Brenna Youngblood
Vanity Fair
A New Crop of Artists Re-create
a Famed 1968 LACMA Photograph
By Bob Colacello
December 2016
Kaz Oshiro
Space Between
Curated by Louis Grachos and Stephanie Roach
Exhibition: June 3-August 14, 2015
Kaz Oshiro
Join Art Catalogues on the occasion of
the publication of Kaz Oshiro's new monograph
Sunday, January 25, 2015
Art Catalogues at LACMA
4-6pm
Kaz Oshiro in MCA San Diego Art Auction
Kaz Oshiro in Unframed The LACMA Blog
Kaz Oshiro in Los Angeles Magazine
Kaz Oshiro in LA Times
Review: Kaz Oshiro plays with perceptions in 'Still Life'
By David Pagel
Apriil 19, 2013
Each of these supple pieces is not a painting that has been manhandled but a sculpture that invites careful thinking about the differences between what we see and what we believe. Like a magician, Oshiro focuses our attention on those moments when knowledge and experience tug in different directions.
Kaz Oshiro in Artforum
Best of 2012 "Notations: The Cage Effect Today"
By Thomas Crow
December 2012
Kaz Oshiro's 2009 installation features what appear to be electric-guitar amplifiers interspersed with plain rectangular solids of identical size, the tones of the latter distributed along a neutral gray scale. All are in fact three-dimensional paintings stretched over wooden supports, the likeness of muted orange leatherette, tweed grill cloth, and imaginary manufacturer's badge all cleverly deadpan illusions. As Andy Warhol's Brillo and Heinz boxes equated Minimalism's bland spatial units with painted containers for absent supermarket products, Oshiro updates the tactic to lend palpable shape and color to something—overt sound production—that isn't there.
December 2012
Kaz Oshiro Panel Discussion at Columbus College of Art and Design
Panel Discussion: Remaking the World
featuring artists from the exhibition Simulacrum
Wednesday, Nov. 28, 5:30 p.m.
In conjunction with the exhibition Simulacrum, artists whose work focuses on the fabrication of identifiable objects join us to discuss what it means to take this path. Whether an act of adoration or critical commentary (or both), re-making "normal" objects and images translates the familiar into the unfamiliar, while introducing layers of evocative new meanings. Moderator Eleanor Heartney is an award-winning, internationally recognized art critic who writes extensively on contemporary art issues for many publications, including Art in America, Artnews, The New Art Examiner, and The New York Times. Her most recent book is Art and Today.Artists speaking include Tom Burkhardt, Chris Hanson, Tony Matelli, Kaz Oshiro, and Hendrik Sonnenberg.
Columbus College of Art And Design
60 Cleveland Avenue Columbus, OH 43215
Kaz Oshiro at Columbus College of Art and Design Canzani Center Gallery
Kaz Oshiro included in Okinawa Art in New York at The Nippon Club
Kaz Oshiro at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver
Honor Fraser Gallery is pleased to announce we now represent Kaz Oshiro
Kaz Oshiro's work blurs the line between painting and sculpture, between disguise and authenticity, as he seeks to make the mundane captivating. Taking the form of such everyday objects as microwaves, trash dumpsters, refrigerators, car parts, and speakers, his works appear to be sculptural replicas of common, mass-produced objects, if not the actual objects themselves. Employing a perfect and compelling tromp l'oeil style, Oshiro paints the stretched planes with incredible and completely illusionistic detail.
Kaz Oshiro has exhibited in the United States and abroad including: the Asia Society and Museum, New York; UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Las Vegas Art Museum. Recent solo exhibitions include Galerie Frank Elbaz, Paris, France; Las Ciengas Project, Los Angeles; Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Miami, FL; and Yvon Lambert, New York.
Kaz Oshiro Interview in Walker Art Center Magazine
Kaz Oshiro's "Painting Problem" Balancing Realism and Abstraction
By Paul Schmelzer
How do you make a painting without making a painting? This is one of the key questions for Kaz Oshiro. Despite eschewing the label "sculptor," he makes uncannily realistic objects such as a full-size replica of a garbage dumpster or a column of wood-paneled Sony bookshelf speakers. The twist: his three-dimensional works are paintings made using canvas and stretcher bars, a reality viewers would likely miss were it not for an open backside that reveals the underlying structure.
March 14, 2012