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Complete Newspaper, Magazine, Tv, Radio, Podcast, And Blog Press Coverage, Laura Kina
Complete Newspaper, Magazine, Tv, Radio, Podcast, And Blog Press Coverage, Laura Kina
Laura Kina
Visit the artist website for a comprehensive list of popular press coverage from 2002-present: http://www.laurakina.com/press.html
Exhibition Essay And Retrospective - "Laura Kina: A Many-Splendored Thing", Laura Kina
Exhibition Essay And Retrospective - "Laura Kina: A Many-Splendored Thing", Laura Kina
Laura Kina
Larry Lee. “Laura Kina: A Many-Splendored Thing.” Foundation for Asian American Independent Media 15th Annual Asian American Showcase catalogue. 2010. April 2 - May 30, 2010 Gene Siskel Film Center A retrospective featuring over thirty selected paintings, drawings and textiles (1995-present) from her Refrigerator, Hapa Soap Opera, Loving, Aloha Dreams, and Devon Avenue Sampler series as wellas some early and new works on exhibit for the first time. Kina's art collectively embraces "ikigai" or the Japanese belief of "a sense of life worth living" and reflects her "postcolonial pop aesthetic" as a multiracial Okinawan Jewish artist/educator/scholar living in a South …
Cover Image And Featured Artist - Zeek: A Jewish Journal Of Thought And Culture, Laura Kina
Cover Image And Featured Artist - Zeek: A Jewish Journal Of Thought And Culture, Laura Kina
Laura Kina
Kina, Laura “Sugar.” ZEEK: A Jewish Journal of Thought and Culture. Winter 2010. Cover image and p.62-65.
Art Series - Sugar, Laura Kina
Art Series - Sugar, Laura Kina
Laura Kina
Set during the 1920’s-1940’s, Laura Kina’s SUGAR paintings (2010-present) 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. Kina’s paintings take us into a beautiful yet grueling world of manual labor, cane field fires and flumes. View the series: http://www.laurakina.com/sugar.html
Art Series - Devon Avenue Sampler, Laura Kina
Art Series - Devon Avenue Sampler, Laura Kina
Laura Kina
Devon Avenue Sampler (2009-2011) is a portrait of a diasporic South Asian/Jewish community in Chicago, IL. This textile series, which uses indigo dye and khadi fabric, was hand embroidered by artisans from a fair trade women’s organization in Mumbai, India. View the series: http://www.laurakina.com/devon.html
Art Series - Aloha Dreams, Laura Kina
Art Series - Aloha Dreams, Laura Kina
Laura Kina
Aloha Dreams (2007) In this mixed media painting series and installation, Kina examines her Orientalist impulse for heritage tourism. Looking nostalgically at her family’s history as Okinawan sugar cane plantation workers on the Big Island of Hawaii, she ultimately finds herself through mediated pop images of paradise and in the very real space of a Midwestern Vietnamese nail salon. View the series: http://www.laurakina.com/aloha.html
Art Series - Loving, Laura Kina
Art Series - Loving, Laura Kina
Laura Kina
Loving (2006) Inspired by the 1967 Supreme Court Case, Loving v. Virginia, that overturned this nation’s last anti-miscegenation law, Kina examines issues of color in black and white. Kina drew life-size charcoal portraits of ten “Bi-Racial Baby Boomers” as representative of the larger mixed race community and movement in the United States. To view series: http://www.laurakina.com/artwork.html
Art Series - Hapa Soap Opera, Laura Kina
Art Series - Hapa Soap Opera, Laura Kina
Laura Kina
Hapa Soap Opera (2003) There’s romance in the air in these love triangles featuring an all hapa cast. Drawing inspiration from Bollywood movie posters, Kina painted large-scale portraits of mixed Asian Americans from across the United States. View the series: http://www.laurakina.com/hapa.html