Here is a reproduction of Dan Samborski’s 2007 painting, “Postmodern Gothic.” Photos courtesy of San Samborski

SACRAMENTO, CA (MPG) - The James Kaneko Art Gallery, located on the American River College campus, is hosting a retrospective exhibition of Dan Samborski paintings through Feb. 14.

Samborski earned his Master of Arts degree from California State University Sacramento in 1990 and followed that up with a 32-year teaching career as an art professor at American River College.

This is a reproduction of Dan Samborski’s 2024 painting, “The End of Painting.” Photos courtesy of San Samborski

The art exhibit is titled, “The End of Painting” to which Samborski explains in the exhibit program, “The earliest Art styles to influence my own teenage creative efforts turned out to have killed painting too. In the 1960s, Pop Art, and then later 1970s Photorealism, poked a rebellious finger into the eye of high-minded Modern Art. Ironically, Abstract Expressionism had become accepted as the new academic taste. The lack of content in that non-objective Art now makes it the preferred choice for corporate wallpaper.”

The exhibit includes examples of the artist’s work over the last four decades with titles such as “Urbane Primitive,” “End of Ego,”,“Postmodern Gothic” and “1% Solution.”

Here is a self-portrait of Sacramento artist Sam Dobrowski. Photos courtesy of San Samborski

In the exhibit program, the artist explains, “After decades of studying and teaching Art history, I tend to see it everywhere. Every choice I make as an artist depends on some dead artist’s efforts before me. All these paintings are visual conversations with the history of painting styles, types of paint and various application techniques.”

The James Kaneko Gallery is located at 4700 College Oak Drive in Sacramento. Gallery hours are 11 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Mondays through Thursdays and 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Fridays.