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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.
Exhibition Catalogue Essay And Artwork - "Half Yella: Embracing Ethno-Racial Ambiguity", Laura Kina
Exhibition Catalogue Essay And Artwork - "Half Yella: Embracing Ethno-Racial Ambiguity", Laura Kina
Laura Kina
"Half Yella: Embracing Ethno-racial Ambiguity" essay and artwork featured in Embracing Ambiguities: Faces of the Future (exhibition catalogue). Cal State Fullerton University, Fullerton Main Art Gallery, 2010.
“Embracing Ambiguity: Faces of the Future,” features artwork by 10 multicultural artists living and working in the United States who are searching for new ways to define identity. Through painting, sculpture, video and mixed media, these artists attempt to answer the question, “What are you?”
The artists are:
Nzuji De Magalhaes, who combines African and American art forms to depict issues of stereotype, myth, ethnicity and politics.
Kip Fulbeck, artist, photographer, filmmaker and …
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