The Dog Show: Time Traveler Umeyama’s Drawings from the 21st Century, Hiromi Stringer
Fri, Mar 03
|Contemporary at Blue Star
Come by Contemporary at Blue Star on First Friday, March 3rd from 6pm - 9pm for the opening of The Dog Show: Time Traveler Umeyama’s Drawings from the 21st Century, Hiromi Stringer. This exhibit will run through June 4, 2023.
Time & Location
Mar 03, 2023, 6:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Contemporary at Blue Star, 116 Blue Star, San Antonio, TX 78204, USA
About the event
Image: Hiromi Stringer - Dog (Germany)19, 2022, gouache and sumi ink on oriental paper, 9 ½ x13x ½. Courtesy of the artist.
It was almost 30 years ago, one steamy, hot summer day, when I saw someone walking Siberian Husky dog on a busy street in Bangkok, Thailand. It was when the word globalization started to appear here and there. Why a Siberian anything in Thailand?
I want to know about the world I live. I came to this foreign country, the US, when I was in my 30s. A personal paradigm shift including cultural and language differences strengthened my curiosity of wanting to make sense of this place. Mundane quotidian objects of our times surely inform us about our current existence. Both events and “stuff” in our lives have root causes or reasons. My approach is using the mundane as an extension of the broader world.
In this body…