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Bruce Presents: Kenji Nakahashi–The City Rises

Please join us for a talk with Susan Van Scoy, Ph.D., Professor of Art History at St. Joseph’s University, NY, as she takes us through the lens of several of Kenji Nakahashi’s photographs featured in the exhibition “Kenji Nakahashi: Strange Beauty.” By examining Nakahashi’s works as well as his newsletters, personal correspondences, maps, and records from his archives, Van Scoy will discuss Nakahashi’s multimedia background and his experience of living and working as a Japanese artist in New York City…

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April 22, 2025 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

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1 Museum Drive
Greenwich, CT 06830-7157 United States

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Please join us for a talk with Susan Van Scoy, Ph.D., Professor of Art History at St. Joseph’s University, NY, as she takes us through the lens of several of Kenji Nakahashi’s photographs featured in the exhibition “Kenji Nakahashi: Strange Beauty.” By examining Nakahashi’s works as well as his newsletters, personal correspondences, maps, and records from his archives, Van Scoy will discuss Nakahashi’s multimedia background and his experience of living and working as a Japanese artist in New York City in the 1970s and 80s.

This special Bruce Presents event includes an early reception from 6–6:15pm.

Support for Bruce Presents is generously provided by Berkley One, a Berkley Company.

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Kenji Nakahashi: Strange Beauty

Best known for his conceptual and street photography, Kenji Nakahashi (Japanese, 1947–2017) produced a highly experimental body of work grounded in the everyday. Image: Kenji Nakahashi (Japanese, 1947–2017) Time–B, 1980 (printed 1985) Gelatin silver print, 11 x 14 in. Bruce Museum, Anonymous gift in memory of Kenji Nakahashi, 2022.01.33 © Center for Creative Photography, Arizona Board of Regents

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All The Unexpressed Love: Works by Miguel A. Aragón

Exhibition Dates: April 13 – May 18, 2025 Through his work, artist Miguel A. Aragón explores subjects of violence, memory, and perception, transforming difficult images into catharsis. This series is a deeply personal collaboration with Aragón’s late mother, whose crochet and personal effects are the foundation of the artwork. It is a conversation between past and present, between mother and son, between the finite nature of our existence and the connections that endure across time. Miguel A. Aragón was born…

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Kenji Nakahashi: Strange Beauty

Best known for his conceptual and street photography, Kenji Nakahashi (Japanese, 1947–2017) produced a highly experimental body of work grounded in the everyday. Image: Kenji Nakahashi (Japanese, 1947–2017) Time–B, 1980 (printed 1985) Gelatin silver print, 11 x 14 in. Bruce Museum, Anonymous gift in memory of Kenji Nakahashi, 2022.01.33 © Center for Creative Photography, Arizona Board of Regents

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