Throughout 92-year-old Jimmy Tsutomu Mirikitani’s long and tumultuous life — losing his citizenship during World War II, then regaining it after the end of the war; being homeless in New York after 9/11 — there has been one constant: art. The Japanese-American artist creates brightly colored drawings that tell his story through pictures of internment camps, the atomic bomb, and lots and lots of beautiful cats. “I like the simplicity and the playfulness in some of the paintings and drawings, even though I know there’s a very heavy story underneath it,” says Damon McLeese, director of Access Gallery, which is hosting a show of the artist’s originals on loan from the Wing Luke Museum in Seattle... More >>>