Irresolution: The Paintings of Yoshiaki Shimizu

“Irresolution” was the first retrospective of the artistic career of Yoshiaki Shimizu (b. 1936), a Japanese-born, Harvard-trained painter and later historian of Japanese art. Exploring a multitude of styles, including ancient Japanese sculpture, Abstract Expressionism, Nipponism, and the New York School, these works chronicled Shimizu’s navigation through the different art worlds of Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA; New York; Hamburg, Germany; and Kyoto, Japan.

Curated by Yukio Lippit, with Stacie Matsumoto.