Conditions Governing Use

Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. For more information, please see the Permissions and Copyright page on the West Virginia and Regional History Center website.

Conditions Governing Access

No special access restriction applies.

Preferred Citation

[Description and date of item], Tsukasa Kambara, Artist, Paintings, A&M 4641, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift from the Kambara family via Jeanne (Jessica) Kambara, 2021.

Biographical / Historical

Tsukasa Kambara was born on November 22, 1954 in Kyushu, Japan, where he studied design and architecture. After spending eight years working as an interior and graphic designer in Tokyo, Kambara had the opportunity to move to the United States in 1983. He settled in Charleston, West Virginia with his wife and five children.

Kambara's artwork is inspired by both his native Japanese culture and adopted American culture, as well as architecture and abstract art. He describes his individual style as a portrayal of chaos and order, two states which contradict yet exist in harmony.

A more extensive biography and complete artist's statement can be found in the control folder for this collection.

Scope and Contents

This collection includes five paintings by Japanese American artist Tsukasa Kambara:

1. Face with Triangle (2017), 20 x 16 inches
2. Float mixed media (undated), 20 x 16 inches
3. Fallout Fall in (2017), 20 x 16 inches
4. Simple Pattern Eleven (undated), 12 x 12 inches
5. Untitled – black and white spattered perspective-style with gold and red details (2008), 20 x 16 inches

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Artists -- West Virginia
• Japanese American art