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09/11/2026

Heading North to visit the retrospective "Leslie Smith III: Leave Your Baggage At The Door."
An exhibition organized by and currently on view at the Museum of Wisconsin Art, MoWA, in West Bend, Wisconsin through October 11, 2026.

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"Leave Your Baggage at the Door," a focused retrospective featuring 22 paintings by artist Leslie Smith III.

The exhibition brings together works created between 2010 and 2024, tracing a pivotal 15-year period in Smith’s artistic evolution. The works on view range from intimate-scale to monumental, highlighting the artist’s growing experimentation with form and space.

“As one of Wisconsin’s most compelling contemporary artists, Leslie Smith III continues to expand the possibilities of painting,” says Thomas Szolwinski, Curator of Architecture and Design at MOWA. “Through color, form, and shape, his work examines memory, emotion, and human connection. Leave Your Baggage at the Door highlights the evolution of his practice from traditional rectangular canvases to increasingly complex, multi-panel compositions that challenge conventional ideas of abstract painting.”

Leslie Smith III Museum of Wisconsin Art

08/28/2026

Fair wind and following seas, King Harald V of Norway.

image:
Crown Prince Harald happily on board.
photograph by Eivind Kleiven
Royal Colllection

08/21/2026

TONIGHT! Please join us tonight (6-8pm) for the opening reception of AKIKO MASHIMA: SCULPTURE.

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Japanese artist Akiko Mashima (born 1952 in Saga, Japan) studied sculpture at the Musashino Art University in 1976, before transitioning to the Brooklyn Museum Art School in 1978-1979, and to the Art Students League (1979-1980). She lives in New York City and in Kanagawa, Japan.

She is the recipient of a Robert Smithson Memorial Scholarship in Sculpture (1978-1979), and received a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in 1988.

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.mashima Guido Maus

08/20/2026

Please join us this Friday, Aug. 21 (6-8pm) at Maus Contemporary for the opening reception of AKIKO MASHIMA: SCULPTURE.

image:
Akiko Mashima
"Space 03-01"
2003
wood, paint
approx. 60 by 54 by 2.4 in.
(ca. 152,5 by 137 by 6 cm)

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Japanese artist Akiko Mashima (born 1952 in Saga, Japan) studied sculpture at the Musashino Art University in 1976, before transitioning to the Brooklyn Museum Art School in 1978-1979, and to the Art Students League (1979-1980). She lives in New York City and in Kanagawa, Japan.

She is the recipient of a Robert Smithson Memorial Scholarship in Sculpture (1978-1979), and received a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in 1988.

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.mashima Guido Maus

08/19/2026

Akiko Mashima, "80-01", 1980, concrete, approx. 14.6 by 9.1 by 9.1 in. (ca. 37 by 23 by 23 cm)

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“(…) Present-day cities seem to exist on the opposite sides of the African and Amazonian jungles (architect Rem Koolhaas metaphorically wrote that Manhattan is ‘the 20th century’s Rosetta Stone’). But if a city is seen as one environment within a given era, then the ‘objects’ that people have created out of their actions and necessary conditions for living (that is, those ‘products’ that were manually processed using the limited materials that an individual can handle) should allow one to perceive the elements and possibilities that can be linked to the fragments of myths and forms that have been the subjects of study for anthropologists and archeologists. Like Mashima, the more that the straightforward artists are inclined toward the motivations and principles of the essential forms of creation, the more likely it is that their works are closer to ‘the woven-out world itself.’ The world is a fragmental one that is at the same time created from a non-segmented, linear time that suggests a totality.

Mashima experienced ‘one of the jungles’ just as the transitional period shifted into a new century. Since that time, our minds have been focused on the crises of the entire human race that is in a state of constant opposition and confusion. In such a state, my expectation toward Mashima is that she will show us a profound creativity that is on a humanity-wide scale, as if to demonstrate the state of the polyphonic world that refuses to settle into a certain rationality, allowing her to produce works along the lines of potsherds or passages from ancient handed-down stories.”

- Akihito Takami, 2005
translated to English by Taeko Nanpei

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Please join us this Friday, Aug. 21 (6-8pm) for the opening reception of AKIKO MASHIMA: SCULPTURE, the artist’s second one-person exhibition with the gallery.

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.mashima Guido Maus

08/18/2026

Akiko Mashima, "Existence 13-06", 2013, wood, graphite, gesso, paint, wood varnish, ca. 44 by 41,8 by 5,7 cm, approx. 17.3 by 16.5 by 2.25 in.)

Please join us this Friday, Aug. 21 (6-8pm) at Maus Contemporary for the opening reception of AKIKO MASHIMA: SCULPTURE.

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Japanese artist Akiko Mashima (born 1952 in Saga, Japan) studied sculpture at the Musashino Art University in 1976, before transitioning to the Brooklyn Museum Art School in 1978-1979, and to the Art Students League (1979-1980). She lives in New York City and in Kanagawa, Japan.

She is the recipient of a Robert Smithson Memorial Scholarship in Sculpture (1978-1979), and received a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in 1988.

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.mashima Guido Maus

08/18/2026

Please join us this Friday, Aug. 21 (6-8pm) at Maus Contemporary for the opening reception of AKIKO MASHIMA: SCULPTURE.

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image:
Akiko Mashima
"Corner 5"
1991
wood, paint, and graphite
ca. 60 by 29 by 30,5 cm
(approx. 23.6 by 11.4 by 12 in.)

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Japanese artist Akiko Mashima (born 1952 in Saga, Japan) studied sculpture at the Musashino Art University in 1976, before transitioning to the Brooklyn Museum Art School in 1978-1979, and to the Art Students League (1979-1980). She lives in New York City and in Kanagawa, Japan.

She is the recipient of a Robert Smithson Memorial Scholarship in Sculpture (1978-1979), and received a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in 1988.

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.mashima Guido Maus worksonpaper

08/18/2026

"(…) Present-day cities seem to exist on the opposite sides of the African and Amazonian jungles (architect Rem Koolhaas metaphorically wrote that Manhattan is ‘the 20th century’s Rosetta Stone’). But if a city is seen as one environment within a given era, then the ‘objects’ that people have created out of their actions and necessary conditions for living (that is, those ‘products’ that were manually processed using the limited materials that an individual can handle) should allow one to perceive the elements and possibilities that can be linked to the fragments of myths and forms that have been the subjects of study for anthropologists and archeologists. Like Mashima, the more that the straightforward artists are inclined toward the motivations and principles of the essential forms of creation, the more likely it is that their works are closer to ‘the woven-out world itself.’ The world is a fragmental one that is at the same time created from a non-segmented, linear time that suggests a totality.

Mashima experienced ‘one of the jungles’ just as the transitional period shifted into a new century. Since that time, our minds have been focused on the crises of the entire human race that is in a state of constant opposition and confusion. In such a state, my expectation toward Mashima is that she will show us a profound creativity that is on a humanity-wide scale, as if to demonstrate the state of the polyphonic world that refuses to settle into a certain rationality, allowing her to produce works along the lines of potsherds or passages from ancient handed-down stories.”

- Akihito Takami, 2005
translated to English by Taeko Nanpei

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Please join us this Friday, Aug. 21 (6-8pm) for the opening reception of AKIKO MASHIMA: SCULPTURE, the artist’s second one-person exhibition with the gallery.

••••••

.mashima Guido Maus

08/18/2026

Please join us this Friday, Aug. 21 (6-8pm) at Maus Contemporary for the opening reception of AKIKO MASHIMA: SCULPTURE.

••••••

Japanese artist Akiko Mashima (born 1952 in Saga, Japan) studied sculpture at the Musashino Art University in 1976, before transitioning to the Brooklyn Museum Art School in 1978-1979, and to the Art Students League (1979-1980). She lives in New York City and in Kanagawa, Japan.

She is the recipient of a Robert Smithson Memorial Scholarship in Sculpture (1978-1979), and received a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in 1988.

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.mashima Guido Maus

08/17/2026

Please join us this Friday, Aug. 21 (6-8pm) at Maus Contemporary for the opening reception of AKIKO MASHIMA: SCULPTURE.

••••••

Japanese artist Akiko Mashima (born 1952 in Saga, Japan) studied sculpture at the Musashino Art University in 1976, before transitioning to the Brooklyn Museum Art School in 1978-1979, and to the Art Students League (1979-1980). She lives in New York City and in Kanagawa, Japan.

She is the recipient of a Robert Smithson Memorial Scholarship in Sculpture (1978-1979), and received a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant in 1988.

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