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www.seattleartmuseum.orgPainting Seattle: Kamekichi Tokita & Kenjiro NomuraSEATTLE ASIAN ART MUSEUM, SEATTLE WA – Oct 22-Feb 19, 2012 During the 1930s, Japanese AmericansKamekichi Tokita and Kenjiro Nomura were part of a small number of progressive artists inSeattle that included Morris Graves, KennethCallahan and Mark Tobey. DuringWorld War II, they were interned at theMinidoka War Relocation Center in Idaho.The 20 works gathered for this intimateshow, mostly pre-WWII paintings,include eight pieces from SAM’s permanentcollection. Familiar street scenes ofSeattle and the Pacific Northwest reflectthe urban landscape of the 1930s in a styleclosely related to American realist painting.Tokita and Nomura were both distinguishedby their contribution to a uniqueKenjiro Nomura (1896-1956), Alley (c.1932), oil on canvas [Seattle AsianArt Museum, Seattle WA, Oct 22-Feb 19]first-generation Japanese-American perspectiveto American art.The exhibit includes one entirelyabstract work by Nomura, who was influencedby the aesthetics of Mark Tobey. A prolific artist, Nomura continued to work during internmentand produced many images of landscape and daily life using any government-issued materialshe was able to obtain. SAM mounted a solo show of Nomura’s work in their new museum in 1933,and after his death, a memorial exhibit in 1960.Kamekichi Tokita was also a prominent artist who exhibited at SAM in the mid-1930s. Beginningon the day Pearl Harbor was bombed, the artist kept a diary highlighting in detail his personal accountsand experiences during the war. Tokita died in 1948 and his rare, insightful diary serves as a basis for thepublication that accompanies this exhibit. Allyn CantorCOLLECTION SEATTLE AT MUSEUM/PHOTO: PAUL MACAPIAAdmission: general $5, students/seniors $4, groups $3 per person,members & children under 12 free.Thru Nov 13 Arnie Siegel, TovaMozard, Haraldur Kjartansson andothers, “Emotional Blackmail”,attempts to reveal the limitations ofpersonal expression; Nov 19-Jan 8Kyla Mallett: Helping Yourself,works from a diverse archive of second-hand,self-help materials, delvinginto the history, context and status ofthe genre as a popular, academically‘unsanctioned’ discourse; GarethLong: Never Odd Or Even, two recentbodies of work by New York-basedartist: Untitled (Stories) is a set oflenticular prints accompanied by thebook series Books (Untitled) that pivotsaround a disjunction between theoeuvre of the late American authorJ.D. Salinger and the design of hisbooks and the unfinished novel Bouvardand Pécuchet by GustaveFlaubert, Bouvard and Pécuchet’sInvented Desk for Copying.★ University of LethbridgeArt Gallery4401 University Dr, W600 Centre forthe Arts ✆403-329-2666www.uleth.ca/artgallerymon-fri 10am-4:30pm thurs 10am-8:30pm. MAIN GALLERY Nov 3-Jan 5The Lion’s Share: Rita McKeough;Jan 12-Mar 1 Winnipeg Alphabestiary;HELEN CHRISTOU GALLERY ThruJan 1 Outlandish: Faye Heavyshield;Jan 6-Feb 24 Notebook (art + people= x series).MEDICINE HAT★ Cultural Centre Gallery299 College Dr SE ✆403-502-9006sushel@medicinehat.cadaily 9am-8pm. Nov 8-28 MedicineHat Fibre Arts Society and the MedicineHat Potters’ Association, “Coexistence(can be beautiful)”, recentworks; Dec 1-30 Poul S. Nielsen,“CX Configurations”, recent paintingsand drawings by Nielsen, a facultymember of the Visual CommunicationsDept at Medicine Hat College;Jan 7-29 2012 Shades of Blue, ‘openinvitational’ exhibition and sale of artworkin all media where ‘blue’ is animportant component of their constructionand/or palette.Esplanade Art Gallery401 First St SE ✆403-502-8786www.esplanade.camon-fri 10am-5pm sat sun & holidays12-5pm. Nov 5-Dec 18 Z’otz*Collective – Ilyana Martínez, ErikJerezano and Nahúm Flores (threeartists with Latin American backgrounds),drawings and ceramicswhere the art tells stories where22 PREVIEW ■ NOVEMBER/DECEMBER/JANUARY 2011/12 ★ OPEN LATE ON FIRST THURSDAYS