KAZ OSHIRO
Trash Bin 2003
Acrylic on stretched canvas over wood
courtesy of Rosamund Felsen Gallery

Kaz Oshiro was born in occupied Okinawa, Japan. He lives in Los Angeles. Oshiro makes flawless trompe l’oeil replicas of American sub-cultural artifacts: Marshall amps, Fender stacks, sticker-festooned car bumpers, appliances. Oshiro is acutely aware of the compromises cultural engagement entails. In a contemporary reformulation of Rauchenberg’s famous dictum regarding his work’s position between art and life Oshiro pretends, trying to “hate somthing that I like and like something that I hate. I hope to create Post-Pop Art (painting) that juxtaposes Pop and Minimalism with the flavor of Neo-Geo, appropriation, and Photorealism, and present them as a still life of my generation.”

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