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Mark Nakamura (http://shugobot.wordpress.com/) is a visual artist based in Vancouver. Through efficient and often humorous gestures, Nakamura interrupts pre-established codes of reading the images and objects that pervade daily life. He challenges his viewers’ perception by creating artworks that play with conflicting functional and conceptual values. For a work entitled, Temporarily Unavailable (MUMOK), Nakamura recreates the display for an artwork that was temporarily unavailable for viewing at a museum in Vienna, which includes a sign and wood support bar used to hang a painting. Nakamura plays on the tentative nature of how his artworks function. While they allude to something in progress, they are an end in and of themselves. |
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Master of Fine Arts Visual Arts |
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Transart Institute / Donnau Universitat Krems |
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Bachelor of Fine Arts Visual Arts - Painting |
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Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design |
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Kwantlen University College |
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2004 - Audio Tour, Centre A, Vancouver, BC
2001 - Quintessential Asian Men, Gallery Lounge, Vancouver, BC
2001 - Assumptions about Assumptions, Landing Gallery, Vancouver, BC |
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2003 - Drawing on Architecture, Atelier Gallery, Vancouver, BC (curated by Patrik Andersson)
2002 - Graduation Exhibition, Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver, BC
2002 - Sublime Banality, Concourse Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2002 - Welcome to the desert of the real, Concourse Gallery, Vancouver, BC
2001 - Summer Studio Residency: Open Studios, School of Visual Art, New York, NY
2001 - Fuse, Concourse Gallery, Vancouver, BC |
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Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada |
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Catriona Jeffries Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada |
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Ongoing Project - Vancouver, BC, Canada |
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"Studio Work" is an ongoing project that involves the production of a series of motivational text-based paintings that are displayed in the artist's studio and used to encourage further studio-based art production. Beyond creating a superficial need for keeping a studio space, "Studio Work" examines the role of the studio and physical labour in creative production. The text works also reference motivational posters for workplaces and thereby draws a parallel between an office environment and an artist's studio. The obvious and sad irony of "Studio Work" is that the meticulous and time-consuming hand-painted works being churned out in the artist's small and pathetic studio does not go beyond the motivational, and therefore never results in the production of the kind of artwork that the texts refer to. |
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Exhibition of an exhibition - N/A |
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"Ruben y Hanna" is a collaborative project with artist, Leonardo Marz, which documents a fictional exhibition that took place at the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo (MARCO), Monterrey, Mexico. Using documentation from a real wedding that Leonardo attended at MARCO, Mark produced exhibition ephemera to support the fiction including a press release, invitations, a catalogue, reviews, interviews, and magazine advertisements. Leonardo is working on inserting this project into the exhibition archive at MARCO to "realize" the work. A physical catalogue complete with exhibition essays is forthcoming. |
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