Dean Sameshima
Untitled (Torso), 2000
Digital still camera video, 15 s. looped
Edition of 3 plus 1 AP

Untitled (Torso) by Dean Sameshima emerged from his experiments with low-resolution digital
cameras. At a time when webcams and online gay dating sites were still emerging, the artist
explored the possibilities of portraiture through these nascent technologies.
The portraits are distinguished by their simplicity, the anonymity of the sitter, and the absence of

staging. Sameshima explores a form of portraiture stripped of social identity, recalling the pared-
down immediacy of Warhol’s Screen Tests, but without the recognizable celebrity subject. The

images retain a raw, intimate, and unscripted quality, closely aligned with the aesthetics of amateur
imagery. Created in the late 1990s and early 2000s, these works were initially conceived as experiments
with emerging technologies rather than as finished works. Only recently has Sameshima revisited
them as completed works, bringing one of these early works to public attention for the first time.
This special presentation at the fair also marks the announcement of Good Art Trash’s
representation of Dean Sameshima.

Price upon request

These photographs are part of Dean Sameshima’s In Between Days (Without You) series. After
breaking up with his first real love, Sameshima often visited the 1350 bathhouse. One night,
following a sexual encounter with a former high school football player, he photographed the bed
after the man had left the room, as a souvenir of him and their time together. The work speaks to
the emptiness of losing a partner. The bed becomes a portrait of the person Sameshima had been
with: their sweat, their traces, and the mess they left behind. At the same time, the photographs
document a space that had existed since the 1970s and has since closed. This intimate gesture
became the starting point for his exploration of portraiture without the figure or face, a practice he
continued in Anonymous Portrait, Being Alone, and later works.

Price upon request

These photographs are part of Dean Sameshima’s In Between Days (Without You) series. After
breaking up with his first real love, Sameshima often visited the 1350 bathhouse. One night,
following a sexual encounter with a former high school football player, he photographed the bed
after the man had left the room, as a souvenir of him and their time together. The work speaks to
the emptiness of losing a partner. The bed becomes a portrait of the person Sameshima had been
with: their sweat, their traces, and the mess they left behind. At the same time, the photographs
document a space that had existed since the 1970s and has since closed. This intimate gesture
became the starting point for his exploration of portraiture without the figure or face, a practice he
continued in Anonymous Portrait, Being Alone, and later works.

Price upon request

These photographs are part of Dean Sameshima’s In Between Days (Without You) series. After
breaking up with his first real love, Sameshima often visited the 1350 bathhouse. One night,
following a sexual encounter with a former high school football player, he photographed the bed
after the man had left the room, as a souvenir of him and their time together. The work speaks to
the emptiness of losing a partner. The bed becomes a portrait of the person Sameshima had been
with: their sweat, their traces, and the mess they left behind. At the same time, the photographs
document a space that had existed since the 1970s and has since closed. This intimate gesture
became the starting point for his exploration of portraiture without the figure or face, a practice he
continued in Anonymous Portrait, Being Alone, and later works.

Price upon request