Devan Shimoyama: Rituals: Ulrich Museum of Art
Current and Forthcoming exhibition
Devan Shimoyama USA, b. 1989
Winning Love By Daylight, 2022
Oil, glitter, colored pencil, collage, jewelry, silk flower, Flashe, acrylic and embellishments on canvas
84 x 68 x 2 in
213.4 x 172.7 x 5.1 cm
213.4 x 172.7 x 5.1 cm
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Winning Love By Daylight is a painting by Devan Shimoyama depicting the artist during various different points of a transition into a butterfly-winged sylph. The painting debuted in Shimoyama’s 2022...
Winning Love By Daylight is a painting by Devan Shimoyama depicting the artist during various different points of a transition into a butterfly-winged sylph. The painting debuted in Shimoyama’s 2022 solo exhibition A Counterfeit Gift Wrapped in Fire, which was conceived around the idea of metamorphosis.
This painting belongs to a series of works Shimoyama has been developing based on the transformation sequences that occur within anime, and comics genres such as manga. The top of the multi-paneled composition zooms in on the figure’s eyes, where we can see the evolution of an external and internal transmutation.
All of the works within A Counterfeit Gift Wrapped in Fire examine cultural representations related to transformation. The result of a long period of self-reflection for Shimoyama, the work materially alludes to an internal dialog he has been wrangling with concerning the difference between superficial and true change.
This painting belongs to a series of works Shimoyama has been developing based on the transformation sequences that occur within anime, and comics genres such as manga. The top of the multi-paneled composition zooms in on the figure’s eyes, where we can see the evolution of an external and internal transmutation.
All of the works within A Counterfeit Gift Wrapped in Fire examine cultural representations related to transformation. The result of a long period of self-reflection for Shimoyama, the work materially alludes to an internal dialog he has been wrangling with concerning the difference between superficial and true change.
Exhibitions
Devan Shimoyama: A Counterfeit Gift Wrapped in Fire, 2022. Kavi Gupta | Elizabeth St, Chicago, IL, USA;Make-Believe, 2022. American University Museum, Katzen Art Center, Washington, DC, VA, USA;