Tomokazu Matsuyama: Liberation Back Home @ SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah

Displaying works both within and on the façade of the SCAD Museum of Art, Tomokazu Matsuyama presents large-scale paintings and sculpture that blur distinctions between interiority and exteriority, Eastern and Western, and past and present. A first-generation Japanese American, the artist was born in Japan, moved to Southern California with his family at age of eight, and has spent more than two decades in New York channeling these experiences of cultural change and learning into his work. Matsuyama depicts figures within intricate domestic spaces, drawing from a broad visual vocabulary ranging from the refined tradition of Nihonga painting to contemporary Japanese aesthetics, and blending references to American editorial photography, the bold, graphic sensibilities found in West Coast subcultures, and icons…