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Laura Kina: Sugar
Set during the 1920’s-1940’s, Laura Kina’s SUGAR paintings recall obake ghost stories and feature Japanese and Okinawan picture brides turned machete carrying sugar cane plantation field laborers on the Big Island of Hawaii. Drawing on oral history and family photographs from Nisei (2nd generation) and Sansei (3rd generation) from Peepekeo, Pi’ihonua, and Hakalau plantation community members as well as historic images, Kina’s paintings take us into a beautiful yet grueling world of manual labor, cane field fires and flumes.
Laura Kina “Kasuri” oil on wood panel 30 x 45 in. 2010
September 10 – October 28, 2010
Opening Reception: Friday, September 10, 2010 6-9pm
Woman Made Gallery
685. N. Milwaukee Ave.
Chicago, IL 60642
Tel: 312-738-0400
gallery@womanmade.org
www.womanmade.org <http://womanmade.org/>
Gallery Hours: Wed., Thurs., Fri. 12-7 p.m.; Sat., Sun. 12-4 p.m.
To view the works online visit: http://www.laurakina.com/sugar.html
Or the gallery site at:
http://womanmade.org/show.html?type=solo&gallery=kina2010&pic=1
Asian American women artists creatively respond to the question,
“If you had a place of your own, what would it be?”
Driftwood Salon, San Francisco
39 Isis St. (between 12th St & United States Highway 101)
San Francisco, CA 94103 Neighborhood: SOMA
www.driftwoodsalon.com
Gallery Hours: Wednesday – Sunday, 12 pm – 6 pm
Exhibition: September 2 – October 3, 2010
* Opening Reception Friday, Sept. 3, 5 pm – 9 pm
* Panel Discussion Thursday, Sept. 16, 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Join panelists from API (Asian Pacific Islander) Legal Outreach and
Cameron House as they discuss how the arts and projects like A Place
of Her Own can be used as vehicles of communication, healing and
building community for their clients and staff.
* Artist Talk : “Afternoon with Nancy Hom” Sunday, Sept. 19, 2 pm – 4 pm
See her new work for A Place of Her Own as she shares her creative
process. Celebrate this amazing woman, leader, artist and activist.
The event is a fundraiser for AAWAA’s Archive project. Suggested
donation $15 – $25
* Closing Reception: Saturday, October 2, 6 pm – 9 pm
Artists Featured
Visual Artists: Nancy Hom, Vivian Truong, Xiaojie Zheng,
Isabelle Thuy, Pelaud, Solongo Tseekhuu, Shari Arai DeBoer,
Susan Kitazawa, Sue Tom and Irene Wibawa
Writers: Nancy Hom, Angie Chau and Beverly Quintana
AAWAA is supported by California Arts Council, San Francisco Arts Commission
http://www.aplaceofherown.org/
Four Sansei women artists draw from personal, family and collective narratives to explore the complex legacies of the Japanese American experience through collage, assemblage, glass, found objects, painting, photography, image transfer, word, video, installation, and performance.
EXHIBITION
Aug 14-Sept 18, M-F 11am-5pm, Sat noon-5pm
Arts and Consciousness Gallery, John F Kennedy University
2956 San Pablo Avenue, 2nd Floor, Berkeley, CA
RECEPTION: Sat, Aug 21, 6 – 9 pm
Artist Talk, Sat, Aug 21, 4 – 6 pm Seeking the Essence: Memory, Legacy
and Untold Stories With artists Judy Shintani, Shizue Seigel, Reiko Fujii
Artist Talk, Sun, Aug 28, 2 – 4 pm Intergenerational Legacies: The Meaning of Hybridity in an Evolving California by Shizue Seigel, artist and author of In Good Conscience: Supporting Japanese Americans During the Internment
Art Making Workshop, Sun, Aug 29, 1 – 4:30 pm Honoring Ancestors Through Art, Tell their stories through writing, painting, and collage. Facilitator: Judy Shintani, JFKU Arts & Consciousness Alumna. $25 RSVP: judyshintani@yahoo.com
Multi-Media Performance, Sat, Sept 18, 3 – 4:30 pm Grandmothers From Far Away Lands; The Egg House Wall; Stories about Internment Camp; The Farm and The Glass Kimono Performed by Reiko Fujii, Judy Shintani, Lisa Petrides. Artist Q&A following performance
Curated by Nitin Mukul
Featuring: Jaishri Abichandani, Eric Ayotte, Shelly Bahl, Ruby Chishti, Mike Estabrook, Chitra Ganesh, Gisela Insuaste, Mala Iqbal, John Jurayj, Jen Liu, Naeem Mohaiemen, Sandeep Mukherjee, Nitin Mukul, Anjali Srinivasan, Jaret Vadera.
July 22 through September 4, 2010
Opening Reception: Thursday July 22nd, 2010 6PM-9PM
35 Great Jones Street, NYC
Curator’s Note:
Truth is elusive, motivated by self-preservation. In the film Rashomon (1950) by Akira Kurosawa, various eyewitnesses describe their recollections of a violent crime. The accounts and their outcomes vary, leaving viewers to weigh each version against another. In the process the characters’ stories collectively show the nature of truth as unstable and always susceptible to being shaped. Indeed, we have built-in survival mechanisms that may lead us to selectively edit or even invent memories to forge ‘objectivity.’ Besides showing the often self-centered nature of people, the film suggests a multitude of perspectives is necessary, objectivity impossible.
In a similar spirit, this show calls upon a diverse range of artists and media. Taken together, they reveal a variety of positions, a multiplicity of voices drawing upon their own memories, expressing their own truths. Each has a kind of accuracy, yet are often at odds with grand narratives and official accounts, undercutting neatly kept categories and borders. What emerges is a kind of objectivity that rests less upon tangible reference points, but rather associative recollections. Whether appropriated and reconfigured from popular sources, or registered as pigment on a surface, works in this show explore the crafting of reality, and how memory serves us.
A call for artists message sent from artist ON megumi Akiyoshi:
There is an exhibition in Niigata prefecture this Summer
that I’ve participated in ‘07 & ‘08 with Yoko Ono etc.
I am joining this year again, and they are calling for participations.
Please read the link for details:
http://blueskyproject.blog119.fc2.com/blog-entry-5.html
If you are willing to be a part of, please contact Mr. Michio Horikawa by July 7th,
and email your image by July 20th.
Michio Horikawa
1-16-4 Higashishiro-cho
Joetsu-shi Niigata-ken
JAPAN 943-0836
025-521-2725
michio226@blue.plala.or.jp
This show will be held at the civic gallery, and Imai museum in Niigata.
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http://blueskyproject.blog119.fc2.com/blog-entry-5.html
Dear Sir/Madam,
I am pleased to announce the 5th Blue Sky Project exhibition for this year.
Please participate in an art event through the Internet!
Our Theme Is World Peace, Our Motif is the Blue Sky That Envelopes Earth
The 5th Blue Sky Project: An International Exhibition–Love, Blue Sky, and Peace
Participation Guidelines
1. Purpose
On September 11, 2001, the New York-based art historian Reiko Tomii photographed the tragedy of World Trade Center from her home, and uploaded three photographs for her Japanese friends. After a few years, I looked at her photographs and other documentary photographs, I realized one thing: there was a beautiful blue sky over New York. There was also a beautiful blue sky over Hiroshima on August 6, and over Nagasaki on August 9, 1945, when atomic bombs were dropped on these Japanese cities. The blue sky was the backdrop of historic human follies, again and again.
I decided to reverse the situation–making the blue sky for a. backdrop of world peace, and conceived Blue Sky Project: An International Exhibition.
This year, we are organizing the 5th exhibition.
Above the clouds, there is the blue sky that envelopes the Earth. We will never make the beautiful blue sky a backdrop of war, nuclear bombing, terrorism, massacre, and other destructive acts. Never again.
The blue sky is our shared motif. We want you to freely express your hope for happiness of all the people in the world. We want to tell this message to many people in the world.
2. Theme
Message from the Blue Sky (world peace, international understanding, international friendship, human rights, well-being, environment, etc.)
3. Period＆Venue
a) July31 (Saturday) to August 8(Sunday), 2010
Civic Gallery, Takada Library in Takada Park, MotosiroCho, Joetsu City, Niigata Prefecture, Japan
b) Round Exhibition /August 20,21,22,27,28,29, 2010
Imai Museum, Mitsuke City, Niigata Prefecture, Japan
4. Participation Guidelines: To participate from abroad
1) One work per each artist.
2) No participation fees required.
3) You may send your work (up to A3 size) via e-mail attachment or air mail. Please keep the attachment file under the reasonable (e-mail-compatible) size.
4) Any medium is fine, as long as the work expresses the exhibition’s theme: painting, poster, illustration, illustrated letter, calligraphy, message, instruction, computer graphics, photograph, photo-mail, etc. They must be submitted in a digital form via e-mail attachment.
6. How to Participate
1) Application deadline: extended to July7 for participation from outside Japan
Please contact Michio Horikawa at michio226@blue.plala.or.jp
2) Delivery deadline: July20, please send as e-mail attachment
3) Installation: July31, deinstallation: August 8
Round Exhibition /Installation: August 19, deinstallation: August 29
5. Others
1) All participating works will be posted on the exhibition’s website.
2) Official website for the exhibition in 2006-2009: http://picasaweb.google.com/blueskyproject06/
6. Organizer: Blue Sky Project Exhibition Organizing Committee (as of June10)
Michio Horikawa, Tadashi Maeyama, Noriko Kanaya, Kenji Funami, website: Shinichi Noguchi
7. Sponsors
City of Joetsu
Joetsu City Education Board
Joetsu International Exchange Association
Joetsu Art Education Federation
8. Contact for Organizing Committee
Blue Sky Project Exhibition Organizing Committee
(Attention: Horikawa Michio)
1-16-4 Higashishirocho, Joetsu , Niigata Prefecture 943-0836 JAPAN
Tel&Fax: +81-25-521-2725
e-mail: michio226@blue.plala.or.jp
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インターネットの良さを生かしたアート・イベントにゲスト参加を！
第5回Blue Sky Project国際美術展
-Love Blue Sky & Peace-ゲスト参加要項
地球を包んでいる青空。青空は一つ。青空をモチーフに世界平和への思いを表現する。
（Key Word/国際平和、国際理解、国際親善、国際交流、人権尊重、福祉、エコロジー）
1 趣旨
青空は雲の上にあって地球を包んでいます。青空は一つにつながっています。美しい 青空を戦争、原子爆弾、テロ、大量殺戮、破壊のための破壊や収奪などの背景としてはなりません。青空を共通のモチーフとし、世界の人々の幸福につながるテーマをアートで自由に表現し、広汎な人々に伝えたいと考えます。皆様の参加をお願いいたします。
ニューヨーク在住で美術史家の富井玲子さんが、2001年9月11日の同時多発テロその時の世界貿易センターを自宅近くから撮影され、ネット上に３点の写真を公開してくれました。数年の時を経て、その写真と報道された数多くの写真を見つめ直し、当日が美しい青空であったことに改めて気付きました。そして、1945年8月6日の広島、8月9日の長崎に原子爆弾が投下された日も青空であったことに思い至りました。美しい青空の日を選んで歴史を汚す大いなる愚行が繰り返されてきているわけです。
このような視点を逆立させ、青空をモチーフに世界の平和を希求するBlue Sky Project国際美術展を構想しました。そして5回の連続開催目標を掲げて取り組んできました。今年は第5回最終展です。
（2006年,参加者67名.2007年,参加者116名.2008年参加者131名.2009年参加者127名）
2 会期と会場
①上越展 7月31日(土)〜８月8日(日)
（10：00〜19：00、月は休館、土日は18：00まで、最終日16：00終了）
会場 上越市立高田図書館•市民ギャラリー
新潟県上越市本城町8-30 高田公園内 025-523-1086 〒943-0835
展示：7月31日（10：00〜13：30）で開会14：00/搬出：8月8日（16：00〜18：00）
②見附展 8月20日（金）〜29日（日）
（※金、土、日開催、10：00〜17：00、最終日16：00終了）
会場 見附市・今井美術館 見附市学校町2-8-8 0258-63-4501 〒954-0052
展示：8月19日（14：00〜18：00）/搬出：最終29日（16：00〜18：00）
3 作品の規格
① 作品について
趣旨・テーマを表現したアート作品で形式は自由。出品点数は１人１点。
② 作品のサイズ
平面作品 S10号（53cm×53cm）以内。（メール添付は送付可能なメガ数で）
立体作品 郵送、宅急便で送付可能な範囲。
（但し、規格サイズ内でハガキや紙片、小品による組み合わせ展示は可）
4 参加申し込み＆作品送付について
① 参加費は無料。申し込み締め切りは6月30日。
② 事務局は参加申込を確認し、必要書類を送付する。
③ 事務局は案内状を7月7日頃までに作成し、各参加者に送付する。
④ 参加者は7月25日までに事務局へ作品を搬入、送付する。
5 その他
① 事務局への作品搬入、送付方法は手渡し、郵便、宅配便、電子メールの４つから選択する。
② 作品搬入の費用は参加者の負担とする。返送費用は主催者で負担する。
③ ガラスで額装された作品の搬入、送付に当たっては必ず「取扱注意」を明記する。
④ 外国からの作品送付は、原則として電子メールを使用するものとする。
⑤ 作品の展示、写真撮影、広報等の使用権は実行委員会に帰属するものとする。
⑥ ＣＤや電子メールで送付されたデジタル作品は、A３サイズ以内にプリントアウトし展示される。
⑧ 参加者全員の出品作品をプロジェクトのホームページで紹介する。
⑨ ビデオ、DVD作品などで視聴覚機器が必要な場合は準備のため早めに連絡をお願いします。
⑩ 現場でのパフォーマンスの場合は出演日時を調整する。
⑪ 第1回〜第4回‘06展〜‘09展のホームページは下記をごらん下さい。
http://picasaweb.google.com/blueskyproject06/
6 主 催 Blue Sky Project展実行委員会 （6月10日現在）
堀川紀夫、前山忠、金谷範子、筑波進、舟見倹二、古田洋司他 Web担当 野口慎一
7 共 催 見附市 今井美術館
8 協 賛 ギャラリー花地蔵（5月1日現在）
9 後 援
上越市 上越市教育委員会 見附市教育委員会 上越国際交流協会 上越美術教育連盟 その他
10 関連行事（最終回に当たり、講演会、協賛展（同一会期）、交流会等を実施する。）
① 記念レクチャー「from NEW YORK」 美術史家 富井玲子（NY在住、本展のコンセプト写真撮影者）
② 「杉みき子と村山陽の青空世界」展 会場 ギャラリー花地蔵企画（本町4）
③ 「筑波進の青の世界」展 会場 Art&Design室（上越市南教育センター内、本城9）
④ 「舟見倹二と青空」展 会場 自宅ギャラリー（南城3）
⑤ その他（交流会,ゲスト作家の招聘等企画中）
11 事務局
Blue Sky Project国際美術展実行委員会事務局 堀川紀夫（Horikawa Michio）
943-0836 上越市東城町1-16-4 Tel&Fax 025-521-2725
メールアドレス michio226@blue.plala.or.jp
RENE J. MARQUEZ
CORNELIO OF THE FIELDS
Paintings, Drawings, Video
July 1 to August 15, 2010
Opening Reception: Thursday, July 1, 6-8pm
Cultural Center of the Philippines
Bulwagang Fernando Amorsolo (Small Gallery)
4th Floor, Sentrong Pangkultura ng Pilipinas, CCP Complex
Roxas Boulevard, Pasay City
The exhibition’s title refers to the artist’s paternal grandfather, but the exhibition’s real subject is the family photograph, and, more specifically, the sentimentality that belies family pictures. Artist Marquez, born in the Philippines and raised in the U.S., explores personal iconographies that emerge from family pictures and asks “what’s wrong with sentimentality?”—particularly in a diasporic context and in relation to the modernism of Western intellectual thought.
Expanding upon Marquez’s recent article, “The Postcolonial Sentimental: Imagining Cornelio” (International Journal of the Arts in Society), this exhibition interrogates the relationship between the artist the grandfather he never knew. Grandfather Cornelio serves as a metaphor for aspects of the diasporic condition, a critique of Western intellectual imperialism, and considerations of global culture. Provoked by Nicolas Bourriaud’s Altermodern, the Tate Triennial, Marquez explores how artists contribute to contemporary, ontological revision and reconstruction vis a` vis cultural hybridity. Cornelio simultaneously represents the desire for concrete self-definition—“where do I come from”—but also the impossibility of realizing this desire. “Where I come from” reflects imagination constructed by ever changing contexts and implicated by sentimentality.
As much as the work in this exhibition investigates images, the paintings, drawings, and video can be regarded as representations of representations themselves: a painting is of a photograph as opposed to of a person. In this respect, Marquez’s work is very much a material investigation. He situates material culture within the “creolization” that Bourriaud posits as characterizing contemporary culture globally. Furthermore, the implicit sentimentality attached to objects serves the mashup that we call cultural hybridity which, in turn, encourages and acknowledges new subjectivities.
Marquez currently resides in the Philadelphia area where he serves on the Art faculty at the University of Delaware.
Dear Friends of The Korea Society,
I am pleased to invite you to a preview reception for the opening of our two newest exhibitions Steel Helmets: U.S. Korean War Graphics and Korean War in Color. The reception will be hosted at The Korea Society Gallery on Thursday, June 17th at 6:00 PM.
As the beginning of the Korean War meets its 60th anniversary this month, these exhibitions will feature framed film posters, and combat comics from the era that capture the essence of the Korean War. The exhibition also includes thirty color photographs taken during the Korean War by former war correspondent and veteran John Rich. The exhibits will be officially open to the public from June 25th to September 10th, 2010.
I hope you will be able to join us for this special opening event that is to follow in an evening of historical meaning, tribute, and most importantly, lasting commemoration.
To RSVP, or if you would like further information, please contact me at heewon.ny@koreasociety.org.
Thank you in advance for your kind consideration. We look forward to seeing you on the 17th.
Sincerely yours,
Heewon Kim
Program Officer, The Arts
The Korea Society
950 Third Avenue, 8th Floor
New York, NY 10022
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Erasing Borders: Eighth Annual
IAAC Exhibition of Contemporary Indian Art of the Diaspora 2011 |
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The Indo American Arts Council is delighted to announce its Call for Submissions for the Erasing Borders Exhibition of Contemporary Indian Art of the Diaspora 2011.
Curated by Vijay Kumar, Erasing Borders explores the contributions of artists whose origins can be traced to the Indian Subcontinent. The exhibition travels to several key galleries and museums in North America from February – December each year. Please visit www.iaac.us
CRITERIA:
- Artwork submitted must have been completed within the last two years
- All visual art genres will be considered
- Works in progress will be considered with attached explanations
- Artists living in North America who have their origins in the Indian Subcontinent
- All submissions must be received by the deadline of September 15, 2010
- Works not yet exhibited are highly recommended
- Collaborative works will also be considered
SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS:
(artwork will not be considered if we have not received all the requested materials below)
- All information must be on a CD, labeled with artist’s Name, E-mail and Phone Number
- The CD must include high resolution images (at least 1500 x 2100 pixels 300dpi) of the artwork
- All images must include: Title, Size, Medium, Price
- The CD to also include a document containing artist’s Full Name, E-mail, Web Address, Mailing Address and Phone Number
- Artist’s Photograph (at least 1200 x 1200 pixels, 300 dpi)
- Artists Statement
- Biodata
- Submission fee :$10
Submission deadline: September 15, 2010
Participating artists for 2011 will be announced November 2010
Please send all submissions to:
Erasing Borders 2011
Indo-American Arts Council Inc
517 East 87th Street, Suite 1B
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Full details on the recently restored Professional-Development Fellowships in the Visual Arts, including the application form, have just been posted to the CAA website.
Later this fall, CAA will award five grants of $5,000 each to outstanding students who will receive MFA degrees in calendar year 2011. Honorable mentions, awarded at the discretion of the jury, will receive a free one-year CAA membership and complimentary registration to the Annual Conference.
CAA’s Professional-Development Fellowships in the Visual Arts offer financial assistance to promising MFA candidates. Fellows are honored with grants to help them with various aspects of their work, whether it be for job-search expenses or purchasing materials for the studio. CAA believes a grant of this kind, without contingencies, can best facilitate the transition between graduate studies and professional careers.
Applications must be postmarked by Friday, October 1, 2010.
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