Wrestling the Demon: Noriko and Ushio Shinohara explores decades of printmaking within these two storied careers. While each artist’s materials and styles fluctuated throughout the years, the print medium weaves through each triumph and growing pain. The exhibition approaches these works not as solitary art objects, but as a continuous evolution over several decades. Though these two prolific careers knot and intersect, neither loses its fierce independence. Their son, Alex Kukai, carries this artistic legacy into the next generation, drawing inspiration from street art of New York and Tokyo. From Noriko’s famed Cutie series to Ushio’s notorious boxing paintings, this exhibition considers decades spent wrestling with the demon of art, and quite often, wrestling with themselves.
