#devanshimoyama

These lips are made for kissing! @devanshimoyama uniquely captures queerness and sexuality in his mixed media pieces: Inspired by old masters such as Caravaggio and Goya, the artist transforms their compositions and stylistic elements with a contemporary approach to display the identity politics of our times. posted on Instagram - https://instagr.am/p/CRYMkHQhGsD/

@devanshimoyama 🎨 ‘Augustine’ from 2017 I think? Scrolling through images of work and I forgot about this beard ✨🖤 #supportblackart #devanshimoyama #augustine #qpocart #artlovers #blkcreatives #beardgang https://www.instagram.com/p/B0QxtNehGwR/?igshid=1cq4zxqa4zhon

Artist #DevanShimoyama. Gallery @debuckgallery #DeBuckGallery (at De Buck Gallery)

Beautiful art by @devanshimoyama 💜 #supportblackart #devanshimoyama #art #artofvisuals #artlovers #artislife #blkcreatives #blackart #artsanity #artworld #artnerd #blackmagic #artcollector #mixedmedia #mixedmediaart #artsy #hyperallergic #artnet #artblog #artisttofollow

If you're looking for Gay Pride, here it is. 'Devan Shimoyama: All the Rage,' Back (and very hard to keep) in Stock from @hatjecantzverlag⁠ ⁠ Bright paint, sequins, rhinestones, fabric, feathers: the paintings of Pittsburgh-based artist @devanshimoyama (born 1989) resemble midsummer night dreams of alternative masculinities. A graduate of the @yaleschoolofart Shimoyama embraces the pain and joy of Black and queer life in psychedelic day-glo colors. The majority of his works depict Black men transposed into allegorical scenes from Greek mythology and tarot imagery (Shimoyama has stated that he wants the figures in his work to be perceived as "both desirable and desirous"); for example, Abduction of Ganymede depicts a figure resembling the artist swept up in the air by Zeus in the form of an eagle. The painting deploys Shimoyama’s signature materials: Ganymede’s eyes are rhinestones and costume jewelry, and the eagle’s wings are gilt.⁠ This lavishly designed catalog, produced for his first institutional solo exhibition in Europe, provides an excellent introduction to Shimoyama’s electrifying art.⁠ ⁠ Read more via linkinbio.⁠ ⁠ #devanshimoyama #devanshimoyamaalltherage #pride #gaypride #lgbtqpride #lgbtq https://www.instagram.com/p/CeWKJ9_OR61/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Just a few pics from our @devanshimoyama book signing after his talk with @nfreeman1234 at @expochicago Thursday night — please come visit us our pop-up shop with @mcachicago just inside the main entrance to the fair, now through Sunday! Signed copies are available!⁠ ⁠ This book is sold out elsewhere!⁠ Published by @hatjecantzverlag⁠ Edited by Amely Deiss, Stadt Erlangen. Text by Amely Deiss, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Evan Moffitt, Adriano Sack.⁠ ⁠ #devanshimoyama #signedcopies #expochicago https://www.instagram.com/p/CcGklaGp76o/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Loud, quiet, radiant, serene. Featured images are reproduced from 'Devan Shimoyama: All the Rage,' the first major monograph on the rising Pittsburgh-based artist and a ❤️ staff favorite ❤️ for these last days of Black History Month. Rhinestones, sequins and costume jewelry marry with day-glo pigments and magazine clippings in paintings that are as absolutely contemporary, Black and queer as they are psychedelic, celebratory and baroque. "The motif of Aquarius runs through Shimoyama's oeuvre, with all its interesting interweaving of cultures," @kunstpalais director @amely.deiss writes. "The 'Age of Aquarius' has long since ceased to be something that is longed for and invoked in wider circles—even if the idea of a society characterized by tolerance, freedom, equality and a willingness to share remains just as desirable today as it was in the 1970s and 1980s. In Shimoyama's images, however, this idea is suddenly realized. He makes it come true, this utopia: it is loud, quiet, radiant, serene. A foretaste of an ideal coexistence in a future 'now.' Heavenly bodies in neon pink."⁠ ⁠ Published by @hatjecantzverlag⁠ ⁠ Pictured here:⁠ #Sedusa (2020)⁠ #SelfPortraitwithLissa’sSword (Detail, 2021)⁠ #DizzySpell (2019–2021)⁠ #SheBearsWater (2020)⁠ ⁠ Read more via linkinbio.⁠ ⁠ @devanshimoyama #devanshimoyama @kavigupta_ @yaleschoolofart #alltherage #devanshimoyamaalltherage #blackhistory https://www.instagram.com/p/Cah8jBepolh/?utm_medium=tumblr