Sentences with phrase «japanese american»

Book Review — Looking Like the Enemy: My Story of Imprisonment in Japanese American Internment Camps.

San Diego JACL also honored Norman Mineta, former U.S. Secretary of Transportation, and Japanese American veterans of the Korean War.

He has devoted 35 years to Japanese American photography, and hopes that his small inner circle of colleagues will continue to expand.

It has been 30 years since the first comprehensive exhibition of Japanese American photography.

Co-curator, Interrogating Manzanar: Photography, Justice, and the Japanese American Internment (with Jason Weems)

He has also created works, which juxtapose cultural material from different international communities such as the Japanese American and Nipo - Brasiliero communities.

He and his brother, Norman, were the subject of a major mid-career survey exhibtion at the Japanese American National Museum in 1999.

Co-curated by art historian Jason Weems and Joanna, the exhibition features photographs by Ansel Adams, Clem Albers, Dorothea Lange, and Tōyō Miyatake, taken at the Japanese American internment camp at Manzanar during World War II.

An exhibition of Nihonga, contemporary Japanese paintings in the traditional style, goes on exhibition Sept. 27 in the Japanese American Cultural and Community Center's Doizaki Gallery.

Participating organizations are the Japanese American Cultural & Community Center, the Japanese American National Museum, Sustainable Little Tokyo, and Visual Communications.

19: «American Heroes: Japanese American World War II Nisei Soldiers and the Congressional Gold Medal»: Holocaust Museum Houston.

Asawa also drew on her Japanese American background and her study of calligraphy with her emphasis on the interplay between line and the interstices around it.

Shimomura is a third generation Japanese American, interned during World War II.

Mysticism in Geometry This theme is represented by Charmion von Wiegand and Kazuko Inoue, two female artists in the booth, the former a Euro - centric disciple of Mondrian and the latter a Japanese American minimal painter of contemplative and sensual monochrome grids.

I also looked at the Italian Marino Marini and the Japanese American Isamu Noguchi.

Ramapo College of New Jersey Home Page» About» News / Media» Press Releases» Renowned Japanese American Artist to Speak at Ramapo College

Shimomura talks about the serious side of his art, including his childhood experience in a Japanese American internment camp.

MAHWAH, N.J. — Renowned Japanese American artist Tomokazu Matsuyama will speak in the Adler Theater, in the Berrie Center for Performing and Visual Arts at Ramapo College of New Jersey, on Thursday, April 13 at 3 p.m. Matsuyama's work is currently featured in the College's Kresge Gallery exhibition Forms and Effects: Ukiyo - e to Anime which continues on view through April 21.

«Instructions to All Persons: Reflections on Executive Order 9066,» at the Japanese American National Museum.

Highlights include works by the iconic 19th - century painter Childe Hassam, who popularized impressionism in the United States with his lush city scenes and natural landscapes; Japanese American artist Yasuo Kuniyoshi's bold image of the modern woman as a bather in the 1920s; and a recent minimalist seascape by photographer Catherine Opie that reduces the ocean to subtle, ethereal layers of color in which the human figure is almost overwhelmed by natural environment.

Human empathy is explored by Saya Woolfolk, a black, white, and Japanese American woman with the Empathics, a group of fictional women whose aim is to become one with all species, plant and animal.

Traveled to: Japan Society, New York, October 16, 2003 — January 11, 2004; Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles, February 7 — May 30, 2004.

In the early 20th century, groups of Japanese American photographers all along the Pacific coastline launched photography clubs, through which they published and exhibited their work.

Linda Gordon, Gary Y. Okihiro, Impounded; Dorothea Lange and the Censored Images of Japanese American Internment, New York: W.W. Norton & Company, 2006.

Japanese American Women Printers, The Japanese American Culture & Community Center, Los Angeles, CA

Papanikolas: A lot of these Japanese American artists were from right here in Hawai`i.

The city of Culver City; LAXART, Los Angeles; Five Thirty Three Gallery, Los Angeles; Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles; Artist Jim Skuldt's Studio, Los Angeles; MacArthur Park & NOKIA LA LIVE, Los Angeles; The Standard Hotel, West Hollywood; The city of West Hollywood; Hollywood & Highland Center, Hollywood; Glendale College Art Gallery, Glendale; The Lab, Costa Mesa; UAG / ROOM Gallery, University of California, Irvine; Estación Tijuana, Tijuana, B.C., Mexico; Lui Velazquez, Tijuana, B.C., Mexico; EL CUBO at Centro Cultural de Tijuana (CECUT), Tijuana, B.C., Mexico; Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara; University Art Museum, University of California Santa Barbara; Queen's Nails Annex, San Francisco; CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco; Walter and McBean Galleries, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco; University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley; and High Desert Test Sites, Joshua Tree with works by Joel Kyack, Hannah Greely, Ry Rocklin, Patrick Jackson, Alice Konitz, Jack Pierson, Yoshua Okon, Amy and Wendy Yao's Art Swap Meet, Jonathan Hernandez, Thom Merrick, The Wonder Valley Institute for Contemporary Art, Julia Scher, Ann Magnuson, Marnie Weber and the Spirit Girls.

In 2015, she wrote about the photography of Dorothea Lange, Ansel Adams, and Toyo Miyatake and the Japanese American incarceration for Hyperallergic.

Arai's residency included the production of two limited edition silkscreened prints, digital workshops for East EA teens, printmaking classes at a local elementary school, an Open Studio session and a series of artist talks for students of the University of California at Irvine and the staff of the Japanese American National Museum.

[16] In 2015, Ichikawa wrote about the Japanese American incarceration through the photography of Dorothea Lange, Ansel Adams, and Toyo Miyatake for Hyperallergic which has been shared over 8,000 times on Facebook.

Sullivan Goss presents the first posthumous solo exhibition for Japanese American artist Frank Taira.

Performance works have been presented at institutions such as the Roy & Edna Disney Cal / Arts Theater, REDCAT, Los Angeles, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, and the Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles.

2005 Local Legend: 6 Eminent San Mateo County Artists, Peninsula Museum of Art, Belmont, CA Marks of Distinction: Two Hundred Years of American Drawings and Watercolors from the Hood Museum of Art, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH The Art of Engagement, Visual Politics in California and Beyond, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA Ghosts of Little Boy, Artists for Peace, Part II, National Japanese American Historical Society, San Francisco, CA

The food show includes new sculptures by three Japanese / Japanese American artists: Satoru Eguchi, Mieko Meguro and Trevor Shimizu.

Currently, Taylor has an oil painting exhibited at the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles, CA.

In 1990, Kruger scandalized the Japanese American community of Little Tokyo, Los Angeles, with her proposal to paint the Pledge of Allegiance, bordered by provocative questions, on the side of a warehouse in the heart of the historic downtown neighborhood.

His work has been shown at Free Range, Chicago; Adult Contemporary, Chicago; Carousel Space, Chicago; Japanese American Museum, Los Angeles; GRNY, New York; and Abacot Gallery, Los Angeles.

Soil and Stones, Souls and Songs at Para Site, Hong Kong, by Ming Lin Chen Yujun at Bank and Arario Gallery, Shanghai, by Fi Churchman Song Dong at Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, by Julie Chun Teng Chao - Ming at Cube Project Space, Taipei, by Guo Juan Jakkai Siributr at Bangkok Art & Culture Centre, by Max Crosbie - Jones Kyotographie International Photography Festival, Kyoto, by Darryl Wee Lotus Land at Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, by Aimee Lin Natee Utarit at Ayala Museum, Manila, by Tony Godfrey Native Revisions at Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, Lasalle College of the Arts, Singapore, by Adeline Chia Bahar Yürükoğlu at Art Sümer, Istanbul, by Sarah Jilani Hera Büyüktaşçıyan at Green Art Gallery, Dubai, by Rahel Aima But We Can not See Them: Tracing a UAE Art Community, 1988 — 2008 at NYUAD Art Gallery, Abu Dhabi, by Murtaza Vali Lala Rukh at Grey Noise, Dubai, by Rahel Aima Nalini Malani at Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, by Sam Steverlynck Haegue Yang at Kurimanzutto, Mexico City, by Aimee Lin Zhang Peili at The Art Institute of Chicago, by Mark LeBlanc Aki Sasamoto at The Kitchen, New York, by Xiaoyu Weng Bruce Yonemoto at Japanese American Cultural & Community Center, Los Angeles, by John Tain

A 2001 recipient of CCF's Fellowship for Visual Artists, over the years she has had numerous group and solo exhibitions throughout the world including the California African American Museum, Japanese American National Museum, the Craft and Folk Art Museum, the International Assemblage Artists Exhibition (Berlin, Germany), National Museum of Mexican Art (Chicago, Illinois) and international Assemblage Artist Award Exhibition (New York, New York).

Her work has been exhibited in many venues including Los Angeles County Museum of Art, REDCAT, Museum of Jurassic Technology, Japanese American National Museum, Orange County Museum of Art, Laguna Art Museum, Museu Brasilero da Escultura, and Kidang Museum.

Representation is the key strategy for two artists: the Japanese American artist and community activist Tomie Arai's Momotoro / Peach Soy revisits the narrative of a Japanese folk tale, used as propaganda by the Japanese military during World War 11, by juxtaposing images taken from various sources.

Miwako Nishizawa is a California - based Japanese American artist specializing in the traditional shin - hanga Japanese woodblock technique that revitalized the ukiyo - e tradition in early 20th century Japan.

Her work has also been included in group exhibitions with the Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND), Los Angeles, CA; Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland; Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles, CA; New Museum, New York, NY; and in the 48th Corcoran Biennial in Washington, D.C.

This summer, VMFA will explore the artistry of Japanese tattoo with a photography exhibition organized by the Japanese American National Museum.

A companion book of the same title features additional photographs and writings, and is published by the Japanese American National Museum.

Photo © TAM, photo by Russell Johnson and Jeff Curtis; Paul Horiuchi (Japanese American, 1906 — 1999), Color Movement with Purpose, circa 1985 — 86.

Chiura Obata: An American Modern is a major retrospective of one of the most significant Japanese American artists of the twentieth century.

Chiura Obata was one of the most significant Japanese American artists of the twentieth century.

The first panel, on the history of long - neglected artists includes Sharon Spain, associate director of the Asian American Art Project; Mark Johnson, professor of art at San Francisco State University and curator of Asian / American / Modern Art: Shifting Currents, 1900 — 1970 at the de Young Museum; Karin Higa, adjunct senior curator of art at the Japanese American National Museum; and Gordon Chang, professor of history at Stanford University.

Signed and dated lower right front This poignant signed and dated mixed media oil and sand work on paper by Japanese American Abstract Expressionist Taro Yamamoto is in its original vintage metal frame and ready to hang.