Gallery Talk with John Szostak at The Contemporary Museum

John Szostak, Assistant Professor of Japanese Art History at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, will be giving a gallery talk on contemporary Japanese artists this Saturday, July 25, at The Contemporary Museum. Szostak, whose area of expertise is traditional Japanese painting of the Meiji, Taisho and early Showa eras (mid-19th to early 20th centuries), has published articles on war propaganda prints of the Meji era and on the appropriation of traditional Buddhist imagery and iconography by modernist Japanese painters. His talk at TCM will discuss contemporary Japanese artists including Yoshihiro Suda, whose plant-inspired miniature wood carvings currently dot the nooks and crannies of the TCM galleries.

The gallery talk will take place at TCM at 10:30am on Saturday, July 25. Reservations can be made by phone at (808) 237-5217 or by e-mail at qyoung@tcmhi.org.