Museum Of Nebraska Art Nebraska Now Jave Yoshimoto Showcase

Since 1994 the Museum of Nebraska Art in Kearney, Nebraska, has featured 4 annual exhibitions that feature an artist who currently lives and creates art in Nebraska. The showcase on display when we paid the museum a visit consisted of the work of Jave Yoshimoto, an Asian-American artist who has developed a unique contemporary interpretation of traditional Japanese and Chinese scroll painting.

There are many engaging pieces of Mr Yoshimoto's work on view at the MONA, but by far the most arresting/compelling piece in the exhibition is his 3 & 1/2 foot by 30 and 1/2 foot scroll titled Baptism of Concrete Estuary.

This remarkable piece of art was created by Mr. Yoshimoto as both a memorial to the thousands of men, women & children who lost their lives as a result of the 2011 Japanese earthquake and subsequent tsunami that hit the pacific coast of Japan, and as a commentary on the fleeting nature of disasters of that mind-numbing magnitude becoming just another story slated to be lost in the 20-minute update news cycles of major cable news networks.

 

It's not often that I feel compelled to post links to any other sites, but the artwork and mission of this talented individual more than merits it. Pay him a visit at www.javeyoshimoto.com