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2008 Schedule

The Rose Art Museum of Brandeis University
"The New Authentics: Artists of the Post-Jewish Generation " group exhibition curated by Staci Boris
May 8 - July 27, 2008
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 8, 2008 6:00-8:00pm
415 South Street
Waltham, MA 02454
Tel. 781-736-3434
www.brandeis.edu/rose


Rose Art Museum Installation shot of Laura Kina's 2001 Refrigerator series



Installation views of The New Authentics Show at the Rose Art Museum.
Bottom Right - Johanna Bresnick's Ohne Lebenstraum 2004


deYoung Museum
Mixed Asian American Art panel discussion organized by Wei Ming Dariotis in conjuction with the exhibition Asian American Art: A History, 1850-1970 curated by Gordon H. Chang, Mark Johson, and Paul Karlstrom
San Francisco, CA
November 2008 Details TBA

Clark University
Painters Painting Painters group exhibition Fall 2008 curated by Jon Petro
Details TBA
Traina Center for the Arts
92 Downing Street
Worcester, MA 01610
Tel. 508-793-8844
www.clarku.edu/departments/clarkarts/facilitiestraina.cfm

Recent Shows & Events

2008

Art Chicago 2008
Laura Kina's work will be at Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts Booth #152
Friday, April 25- Monday, April 28, 2008
Preview Night Thursday, April 24
Merchandise Mart
Chicago, IL 60654
Visit the Art Chicago website for show hours, directions and ticket prices
http://www.merchandisemart.com/artchicago/

Art Chicago™ 2008, the annual international fair of contemporary and modern art, brings together 180 of the world's leading emerging and established galleries, representing 56 international cities to showcase the work of over 2,000 renowned artists. Art Chicago™ offers curators, collectors, artists and art enthusiasts a comprehensive survey of current and historic work, from cutting-edge to modern masters in a wide variety of media including: painting, photography, drawing, prints, sculpture, video and special installations.



Art Chicago 2008 Works from my Aloha Dreams series were on display including a new work:
Aloha Dreams: Primo 2008 Enamel and charcoal on wood panel 30x30"


Association for Asian American Studies National Conference
Saturday April 19, 2008
Hyatt McCormick Place
Chicago, IL
http://aaastudies.org/
Mixed Race Studies Caucus 7:30am (Organized by Laura Kina and Wei Ming Dariotis)
Panel presenation 8:30am Through Thick and Thin: Asian American Arts, Chicago Style
Chair: Laura Kina
Discussant: Camilla Fojas, DePaul University
Panelists:
Laura Kina, DePaul University "Art, Audience, Activism and Identity: Asian American , hapa, or mixed heritage?"
Larry Lee, School of the Art Institute of Chicago "Grassroots in the Backyard: From DestinAsian to FAAIM, Asian American visual arts and film in Chicago"
Anida Yoeu Ali (Esguerra) School of the Art Institute of Chicago "Cultural Resistance thru Collective Creations: I Was Born With Two Tongues, Mango Tribe, YAWP!, and the Asian American Artists Collective-Chicago"


Hyde Park Art Center
Laura Kina Talking Points hosted by Dan Wang
Monday, April 7, 2008 6:00-8:00pm
5020 S. Cornell Avenue
Chicago, IL 60615
Tel. 773-324-5520
info@hydeparkart.org
http://www.hydeparkart.org/


Northwestern University
Laura Kina Artist Lecture: Aloha Dreams: Hapa Heritage Tourism and the Quest for Racial Paradise
Wednesday, March 5 4:00-6:00pm
University Hall 122
1897 Sheridan Road
Evanston, IL
Sponsored by a course enhancement grant from the Dean's Office of the Judd A. and Marjorie Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences and the Program in Asian American Studies at Northwestern University
http://www.asianamerican.northwestern.edu/events/


Sinclair Community CollegeThe Burnell Roberts Triangle Gallery
Laura Kina Loving solo exhibition February 4-March 8, 2008
Artist Reception in conjunction with the REACH conference: February 28, 2008 7:00-9:00pm
444 West Third Street (4th Floor Bldg. 13)
Dayton, Ohio 45402
Tel.937-512-2253
www.sinclair.edu/facilities/galleries/bunell/index.cfm


The Art Institute of Chicago
Artists Connect Winter 2008 Lecture Series
Laura Kina Connects with Paul Gauguin
Saturday, February 2, 2008 Noon
111 S. Michigan Avenue
Morton Auditorium
Chicago, IL 60603
www.artic.edu

“My paintings are focused on the fluidity of cultural difference, in the slipperiness of identity and what we think of as "race" and how that intersects with ethnicity, religion, class, and gender. Portraiture, pattern and decoration, intense color, and the legacies of Orientalism have all been central to my practice.  Gauguin has naturally been an art historical grandfather with whom I’ve had to wrestle."

This lecture series connects you with contemporary art and the vast collection of the Art Institute. Chicago-based artists talk about the work they're creating today while connecting with the work of artists from the past.

All talks are free with museum admission
Questions? Call (312) 443-3680

2007

Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts
Show Me the Munny group art show
December 8-February 2, 2008
Opening reception: Saturday, December 8, 2007, 7:30-10pm
2043 N. Miami Avenue
Miami, FL 33127
Tel. 305-576-1804
Fax. 305-576-1805
info@dlfinearts.com
www.dlfinearts.com

Show me the Munny features 42 customized Munny dolls by over a dozen artists. What is a Munny? A Munny starts off as a blank 7" DIY toy, made by Kidrobot, the premier creator of limited edition art toys and apparel. Many Kidrobot products, such as the Munny doll, feature unique collaborations with artists from backgrounds of graffiti, fine art, industrial design, graphic design, illustration and music. The range of style and subbject matter is wide ranging on the artists themselves. This show involves over a dozen artists including: Nina Ferre, Laura Kina, Marcello Mortarotti, Federico Nessi, Alejandra Padilla, Silvia Rivas, Graciela Sacco, Nicole Soden, Guillermo Srodek-Hart, Karina Wisniewska, Carlos Bentancourt, Michael Scoggins, among others.

Mixed Heritage Center
December 4, 2007 Seattle-Based Mavin Foundation Launched National Online "Mixed Heritage Center"
www.mixedheritagecenter.org
MHC Press Release
For additional information contact Louie Gong or Joseph Sakay or visit www.mavinfoundation.org

Back in 2005, I started working as a Community Advisory Committee member for the Mixed Heritage Center. The project was dormant for quite a while but in the fall of 2007, we cranked up our efforts and we are finally launching the website! Please check out the "Arts" section. I helped compile the initial "Arts Section" and I contributed an essay on the topic of "Mixed Heritage Art."


Spertus Musuem
The New Authentics: Artists of the Post-Jewish Generation group exhibition curated by Staci Boris
November 30, 2007 - April 13, 2008
Opening Reception: Saturday, Dec. 1, 2007, 7-9pm
610 South Michigan Avenue 10th floor
Chicago, IL 60605
www.spertus.edu

“The New Authentics” are 21st-century American Jews. Free to choose their affiliations, they are Jewish culturally, religiously, spiritually, intellectually, emotionally, partially, biologically, or invisibly. The New Authentics: Artists of the Post-Jewish Generation, curated by Spertus Museum Senior Curator Staci Boris, explores contemporary notions of Jewish identity through the work of 16 artists living in the United States. Engaged in the global art community, these artists insert traces of, consciously draw from, or directly address their experiences as Jews, and they are brought together here for the first time in a Jewish context. Their work demonstrates how today, associations with Jewish culture intermingle with issues of gender, sexuality, ethnicity, class, politics, history, and nationality, posing questions, challenging boundaries, and defying easy definition.

Artists: David Altmejd, Cheselyn Amato, Johanna Bresnick, Shoshana Dentz, Lilah Freedland, Matthew Girson, Karl Haendel, Laura Kina, Fawn Krieger, Jin Meyerson, Collier Schorr, Mindy Rose Schwartz, Ludwig Schwarz, Joel Tauber, Shoshanna Weinberger, and Jennifer Zackin.




The New Authentics is accompanied by a fully illustrated publication featuring new scholarship, color reproductions of the works in th exhibitions, and new essays about each artist's body of work ($21.86 on Amazon.com).
May 8-July 27, 2008, the show traveled to the Rose Art Museum of Brandeis University in Waltham, MA, just outside of Boston.


The front of the Spertus Museum
Shoshanna Weinberger and Laura Kina / Crowd view opening night The New Authentics


Laura Kina in front of her 2001 Refrigerator series/ Installation view of the Spertus Museum

Installation view of work by Karl Haendel/ Laura Kina, Shoshana Dentz, Shoshanna Weinberger in front of
Shoshana Dentz home lands #13, 2004

Left - Mindy Rose Shwartz ( next to her macrame sculpture) plus Laura Kina and Shoshanna Weinberger
Right - Installation view of Shoshanna's Hotttentot series

Left - Mathew Girson with his Satellite View 2006 and Dizzy Heights 2005 paintings
Right - Ludwig Shwartz Untitled (Born to Be Mild), 2000

Jin Meyerson Tower 2005/ Johanna Bresnick's Ohne Lebenstraum 2004 in the foreground

Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts
Laura Kina solo exhibition June 9 - July 21, 2007

Opening Reception: Saturday, June 9th 7:30-10:00pm
DL Fine Arts is located in the heart of Wynwood.
2043 North Miami Avenue
Miami, FL 33127
Tel. 305-576-1804
Fax. 305-576-1805
Email: info@dlfinearts.com
www.dlfinearts.com

Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts is pleased to present Laura Kina’s second solo exhibition with the gallery, Aloha Dreams June 9-July 21, 2007. Kina’s mixed media paintings explore dreams of paradise.  Like the Post-Impressionist painter Paul Gauguin’s paintings of Tahiti, Laura Kina’s Aloha Dreams uses Hawai’i as a tropical muse to explore pattern, color, figuration and abstraction.  Beyond the gloss and allure of palm trees and plate lunch, the works in this exhibition delve into a more complicated history using images from popular culture, textile design, and Kina’s own family history as sugar cane plantation workers on the Big Island of Hawai’i to focus on immigration/migration, heritage tourism and Orientalist fantasies.

Laura Kina Aloha Dreams Press Release
Laura Kina Aloha Dreams Catalog of Images

Here are some installation shots and opening night views of the show.


Front of the Diana Lowenstein Fine Arts/Installation view of the main gallery

Installation views of Tina Hyun, Mequitta Ahuja and the Aloha Dreams series

Installation view of the Aloha Dreams series and Mishpoche

Installation views of Flowers for Your Heart and the Aloha Dreams series

Installation views me walkingon Mishpoche and in front of Flowers for Your Heart

Opening night

Opening night


My Loving series was shown in Chicago in June:


Loving Decision Conference 2007
Roosevelt University
Laura Kina solo exhibition June 21-23, 2007

430 South Michigan Avenue, 2nd floor (Fainman Lounge)
Chicago, IL 60605
Coordinated by the Association for MultiEthnic Americans and the Mansfield Institute for Social Justice
www.lovingconference.com

Exhibition hours:
Thursday 6:00pm-9:00pm
Friday & Saturday 8:00am-5:00pm

Artist talk "Mixed Race Portraits: Constructing Racial Identity through Visual Representation"
Saturday, June 23 10:45am-12:15pm room 560 of 430 S. Michigan

Inspired by the landmark 1967 Supreme Court case Loving v. Virginia that overturned this nations last anti-miscegenation law, Loving consists of nine life-sized charcoal portraits of “mixed-race” friends and acquaintances and one self-portrait. 

For the Loving series, Laura Kina created a minyan of individuals whose common tie is that of being multiracial. All of the figures in the Loving series are seated cross-legged, a pose that allows each individual to be centered physically and, perhaps, spiritually.  Some stare directly, others lean forward as if something is about to happen, one woman has her eyes closed and is taking a deep breath.  Time seems suspended. The sitters’ range in age from their 20’s to their 40’s, all rainbow children of the civil rights movement.  Through the process of drawing and subtle gestures in the sitters’ poses, Kina captures a sense of community, the ability to connect with others and the distances between each of us. Viewers are invited to sit on meditation pillows between the drawings, thus extending the virtual community of portraits to include each one of us.
Laura Kina Loving Flyer


In addition to working in the studio during Winter and Spring 2007 on my Aloha Dreams show, I gave artists talks
in March at:
Loving Decision Conference 2007 at Roosevelt University, APAGSO (Asian Pacific American Graduate Students Organization) 2007 Conference APAGSO (Asian Pacific American Graduate Students Organization) 2007 Conference "Immigration, Transnationalism, Diapora: Issues for Asian/American Communities" at the University of Illinois at Chicago and at the National Student Conference on the Mixed Race Experience at Macalester College, St. Paul, MN

My 2004 "Cold War Love Story" piece was on view at the Gene Siskel Film Center as part of "REMAKE: The Sequel" a group exhibition in conjuction with the 12th Annual Chicago Asian American Showcase 2007 Curated by Larry Lee and Chris Naka March 30-May 4, 2007

Diana Lowenstein took 12 of my works to Art Cologne, 41st International Fair For Modern And Contemporary Art, in
Cologne, Germany April 18-22, 2007


2006

Fall 2006, my solo show "Loving" premiered at Grand Projects. Below are some installation shots and press from the show. To see all of the works from the Loving Series click HERE or select "Artwork" and then select "2006" from the archives. This series will travel to the Loving Decision Conference in Chicago in June of 2007 and to Sinclair Community College in 2008.

My work was also recently shown in group exhibitions curated by Jose Diaz at Diana Lowenstien Fine Arts in Miami, "hiddenvalleyranch" September 9 - October 6. 2006 and "Altered States" November 11 - December 2, 2006. Curator Mariavelia Savino included my my painting "Paintball" from 2000 in "New ART as Universal LANGUAGE" at the Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, FL November 16, 2006-January 14, 2007.

Laura Kina solo exhibition

Loving Series: portrait of Shoshanna Weinberger 42.5x34 in. charcoal on paper, 2006

Laura Kina "Loving"
September 24-November 9, 2006
Grand Projects
61 Lyon Street
New Haven, CT 06511
203-415-4605
www.grandprojects.com

GRAND PROJECTS presents LOVING, a series of life-sized charcoal portraits by LAURA KINA .  Inspired by the landmark 1967 Supreme Court case Loving v. Virginia that overturned this nation's last anti-miscegenation law, Kina’s portraits of herself and other mixed-race friends surround the viewer in a meditative half circle that simultaneously embraces and confronts the viewer.

Grand Projects Press Release

Review of "Loving" in the New Haven Advocate Nov. 9, 2006 p. 35




Installation views Grand Projects, New Haven, CT Nov. 2006


Summer 2006 Artist Residency at Cooper Union School of Art in NY

June 14-July 16, 2006 I attended a residency program in NY at The Cooper Union School of Art. I started two new bodies of work during the residency and I spent the rest of July and August finishing up one series, Loving, which debuted at Grand Projects in New Haven, CT (see info above). The second series is still in production (Aloha Dreams to debut at Diana Loenstein Fine Art June 2007). Here are some pictures from the residency.


The Cooper Union School of Art Summer Residency 2006 Program


My studio space at Cooper Union


My studio space and an installation shot of the group exhibition at Cooper Union. The show was held on the 5th and 6th floors of the Art building in Cooper Square (7 East 7th Street, New York, NY). You can see my painting "Sam" in the foreground and way in the back, you can see "Tina Hyun" and "Me and Joe at Paradise Cove."