WEST HOLLYWOOD — Louis Stern Fine Arts, located at 9002 Melrose Ave. in West Hollywood, presents “Matsumi Kanemitsu: East/West” from Jan. 6 to Feb. 17.
The exhibition of paintings, drawings and lithographs, made from 1958 to 1975, reveals the depth of the artist’s proficiency in various media while exploring the breadth of his American and Japanese sensibilities. Whether ruggedly gestural, sensuously fluid or bold colorful, Kanemitsu’s abstractions are the work of a distinctive innovator and synthesizer.
A critically acclaimed artist who was highly regarded by his peers, Kanemitsu (1922-1992) has been under-recognized because his work is difficult to categorize. Nicknamed “Mike” by a friend, painter Jackson Pollock, Kanemitsu is often identified as a second-generation Abstract Expressionist, but his artistic legacy is bicultural, embracing Japanese ink painting traditions as well as American Abstract Expressionism and Pop art.
Shaped by the forces of two warring nation as he was coming of age and learning to be an artist, he had to find his own direction. As critic John Yau has written, “Instead of developing a nostalgic alternative or trying to step outside of [his] complicated, entangled history, Kanemitsu tried to live in the present with all its contradictions.”
The son of Japanese immigrants, Kanemitsu was born in Ogden, Utah, but spen this childhood and youth with his grandparents in Hiroshima. He moved back to the U.S. in 1940 and joined the Army in 1941, but the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor soon led to his confinement in detention camps.
Devastating as that experience must have been, he began drawing with art supplies provided by the American Red Cross and eventually made his way to Europe as a military hospital assistant. After his tour of duty ended in 1946, he stayed in Europe for two years, studying with Fernand Leger in Paris, meeting other prominent artists, including Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso, and visiting art museums.
Kenemitsu returned to the U.S. in 1949 and plunged into New York’s postwar art scene, famously populated by artists such as Pollock, Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline, John Chamberlain, Ad Reinhardt, Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns and dealer Leo Castelli. But as a student of Japanese painter Yasuo Kuniyoshi in the Art Students League, he also kept in touch with his cultural heritage.
In the early 1960s, apparently ready for a change of scene, Kanemitsu moved to Los Angeles, which became his final home. His first major accomplishment was a suite of prints that translated sumi painting techniques into lithography. The project was funded by a 1961 Ford Foundation grant to work at the Tamarind Lithography Workshop — founded by artist June Wayne — and was documented in the film “Four Stopes for Kanemitsu.”
With extraordinary skill and versatility, Kanemitsu also became a teacher, at Chouinard Art Institute from 1965 to 1970 and at Otis Art Institute from 1971 to 1983.
Gallery hours are Tuesday through Friday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., Saturday from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. For more information, call (310) 276-0147 or visit www.louissternfinearts.com.
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