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Devan Shimoyama in Opulence: Performative Wealth and the Failed American Dream: Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE

Current and Forthcoming exhibition
8 December 2022 - 16 April 2023
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Devan Shimoyama, CHAKRA CHART II, 2021. Oil, colored pencil, glitter, acrylic, rhinestones, and collage on canvas stretched over panel, 72 x 72 x 1 1/4 in.
Devan Shimoyama, CHAKRA CHART II, 2021. Oil, colored pencil, glitter, acrylic, rhinestones, and collage on canvas stretched over panel, 72 x 72 x 1 1/4 in.

This group exhibition assembles a range of creative practices–including painting, sculpture, video, fashion, and nail artistry–that embrace lavish, sumptuous aesthetics to examine how America’s obsession with wealth and the ways it is displayed shapes class, race, and gender. 

In a capitalist society where ‘good taste’ often signals class affiliations, status, and power; and consumerism peddles materialism as self-realization, marginalized communities are forced to contend with the false promise of the American Dream. By toying with notions of high and low culture, the works in this exhibition employ aesthetics of decadence and wealth to critique how, despite America’s pledge to an equal access to prosperity, systemic barriers deny some communities opportunity and restrict their social mobility.

 

 

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Works
  • Devan Shimoyama Chakra Chart II, 2021 Oil, Colored pencil, glitter, acrylic, rhinestones, and collage on canvas stretched over panel 72 x 72 x 1 1/4 in 182.9 x 182.9 x 3.2 cm
    Devan Shimoyama
    Chakra Chart II, 2021
    Oil, Colored pencil, glitter, acrylic, rhinestones, and collage on canvas stretched over panel
    72 x 72 x 1 1/4 in
    182.9 x 182.9 x 3.2 cm
  • Devan Shimoyama Spotlight, 2021 Colored pencil, glitter, collage and rhinestones on paper in walnut frame with museum glass 52 1/2 x 42 3/4 x 1 5/8 in 133.3 x 108.5 x 4 cm
    Devan Shimoyama
    Spotlight, 2021
    Colored pencil, glitter, collage and rhinestones on paper in walnut frame with museum glass
    52 1/2 x 42 3/4 x 1 5/8 in
    133.3 x 108.5 x 4 cm
  • Devan Shimoyama Mighty Mighty Style Guide (Gentlemen), 2019 Silkscreen collage with glitter and rhinestones on paper 40 x 30 x 1 1/2 in 101.6 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm
    Devan Shimoyama
    Mighty Mighty Style Guide (Gentlemen), 2019
    Silkscreen collage with glitter and rhinestones on paper
    40 x 30 x 1 1/2 in
    101.6 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm
  • Devan Shimoyama Mighty Mighty Style Guide (Children), 2019 Silkscreen collage with glitter and rhinestones on paper 40 x 30 x 1 1/2 in 101.6 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm
    Devan Shimoyama
    Mighty Mighty Style Guide (Children), 2019
    Silkscreen collage with glitter and rhinestones on paper
    40 x 30 x 1 1/2 in
    101.6 x 76.2 x 3.8 cm
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Installation Views
  • Courtesy of Bemis Center.
    Courtesy of Bemis Center. 
  • Gallery2 Installimage04
  • Shimoyama Themightystyleguides
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  • Shimoyama Spotlight01
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  • Gallery2 Installimage24
     
  • Shimoyama Chakrachartii01
  • Gallery2 Installimage21
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  • Gallery2 Installimage24
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