UPCOMING EXHIBITION

Patrick Nagatani: Themes and Variations

Koshare/Tewa Ritual Clowns, Missile Park, White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico, (Nuclear Enchantment)

Patrick Ryoichi Nagatani is bursting with ideas and stories to tell. For more than 30 years, he has been sharing his narratives through the pictures he makes. What’s going on here, you ask? Splashes of color irradiate parts of people, pets and wild creatures, kachinas soar with missiles, and archaeological digs expose 20th century automobiles in incongruous places and eras. Nagatani’s images take you on fascinating journeys that explore history, personal philosophy, culture, spirituality, fantasy and reality. Images from seven major bodies of work that Nagatani has completed are presented here as well as a literary and photographic novel, “The Race,” that he is currently creating with other artists.

Themes and Variations was partially drawn from Desire for Magic – Patrick Nagatani 1978-2008, the exhibition and monograph, curated by Michele M. Penhall, Curator of Prints and Photographs at the University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque. That exhibition traveled to the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles and was exhibited at the Clay Center for the Arts and Sciences of West Virginia.

The Griffin Museum of Photography is pleased to offer a distinctive and expanded version of the initial exhibition.  Barbara P. Hitchcock, Independent Curator and former Curator of the Polaroid Collection, organized and curated Patrick Nagatani: Themes and Variations.


October 8, 2015–November 29, 2015
Reception Oct 8th 7 – 8:30
Gallery tour/talk Oct 8 at 5 PM
Free for Members

$10 Nonmembers

Current Exhibition: Ghost Dogs

Ghost Dogs, an exhibition showcasing the work of influential Japanese American artists, features work by Masami Teraoka, Sush Machida, and Patrick Nagatani, who was a participating artist in dnj's Fall 2011 exhibition Then and Now.

Ghost Dogs, curated by Sush Machida Gaikotsu, is held at Donna Beam Gallery at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. The artist reception will take place on September 12, 2014. For more information, please refer to the Donna Beam Gallery website (above).

Art From Science - Upcoming Exhibition

Las Cruces Museum of Art will be showcasing the works of photographers Leigh Anne Langwell and Patrick Nagatani in the exhibition Art From Science

August 1 - October 11, 2014

Opening Reception will take place Friday, August 1, 5-7pm

Artists’ Talk on Saturday, August 2, 1pm

Hours: Tuesday - Saturday 9am - 4:30pm, closed Sunday & Monday

Group tours are available by appointment. The Museum of Art is free,

open to the public, and accessible.

Adaptations - New Exhibition at SCA Contemporary

Adaptations, a new exhibition at SCA Contemporary in Albuquerque, NM, showcases artwork about living with a serious disease, such as cancer. This group exhibition features work by Amy Cinkscales, Valerie Roybal, and Patrick Nagatani, who are artists and curators of the show. Adaptations opens Friday, June 20, and runs through August 24.

Adaptations

Opening reception:

5-8p, Fri., Jun. 20

SCA Contemporary

524 Haines SW, 505.228.3749

FREE

An article from Albuquerque’s Intelligent Alternative by Katherine Oostman discusses this upcoming exhibition further:

"The single constant in life is that it changes. None know this better than the artists of the exhibit Adaptations. This collection showcases pieces inspired by the process of living with, and around, a detrimental disease such as cancer.

The project, put on by SCA Contemporary, combines the work of local and national artists presenting pieces of sculpture, painting, collage, mixed-media, photograph and installation art. It includes the work of Lea Anderson, Heidi Pollard, Patrick Nagatani, Leigh Anne Langwell, Tara Massarsky, Dana Burgy-Gautschi, Valerie Roybal, Amy Clinkscales, Linda Mae Tratechaud, Randi Ganulin, Andre Ruesch, Barbara Crawford and Carol Chase Bjerke. Together, these artists have created a space filled with expressions of grief, anger and bewilderment, but also compassion, understanding and camaraderie.

The original idea to create a space for art fueled by major illness came from Clinkscales, Roybal and Nagatani, artists and curators of the show. At first, they fondly referred to the project as “the disease show.” However, as Roybal faced her second diagnosis of stage-four cancer, she meditated on the process of continuing to live with a disease that would not go away."

You can read the full article here.

Group Show Featuring Patrick Nagatani at SCA Contemporary Art

dnj affiliated artist Patrick Nagatani has curated a group show, Private Universes/Personal Spaces, at the SCA Contemporary Art to exhibit April 19 - June 7, 2013.

The opening reception will take place on April 19, 5 - 8 pm.

Other Artists participating in the exhibition include:

Gillian Brown

Carol Chase Berke

Jyl Kelley

Leigh Anne Langwell

Scott Rankin

Patrick Nagatani

To view more information about SCA Contemporary and their upcoming exhibitions click here.

Patrick Nagatani: Medium, Meditation, and Mu

Carol Chase Bjerke and Patrick Nagatani  are collaborating on their most recent show at the Common Wealth Gallery Medium, Meditation and Mu.

The exhibition with be open October 12th through the 28th, 2012.  There will be an opening reception Friday October 12, from 5 to 8 pm.

The exhibition will be featuring Carol Chase Bjerke's ENSO in conjunction with Patrick Nagatani's "Tape-estries".

"The Carol Chase Bjerke/Patrick Nagatani collaboration started more than six years ago. It is based on mutual creative support, and has been nurtured by common interests and experiences - including healing from similar cancers, a passion for process in their work and ideas, and finding resources in Eastern philosophical and aesthetic traditions. 

Nagatani’s large “tape-estries” are meticulously-layered depictions of Buddhist deities. The complexity of symbolic reference in the imagery is complimented by the simplicity of the materials used in construction, i.e. ordinary masking tape “painted” over photographic prints. This is the first major showing of this body of work. 

Bjerke’s ENSO installation applies the Japanese name for circles of enlightenment to photographs of the circles she routinely draws with medical supplies as part of her on-going healthcare. In this presentation, a grid of one hundred and twenty gelatin silver prints provides the focus for an intimate meditation space. "

Common Wealth Gallery

100 South Baldwin Street

Madison, WI 53703

Gallery Hours: Tuesday through Sunday, 11 am to 4:30 pm, and by appointment

Phone: (608) 238-3201, or (608) 334-3201

For more information about the exhibition click here