Now available – exhibition catalog for Laura Kina’s solo show “Over the Rainbow, One More Time” at the Riverside Arts Center Freeark Gallery March 26-May 6, 2023 curated by director Joanne Aono. Thank you to Young Sun Choi for photographing the work and RAC board member Dan Streeting for designing the catalog. 32 pages, full color, $15 available in the gallery and online.

“Over the Rainbow, One More Time” is about starting over. It’s about grief and life in the after. Conceived during the Covid-19 pandemic, in the wake of surviving breast cancer, the end of a 25-year-long marriage, and coming out as queer, Laura Kina’s art traces her journey and memories through trauma into wellness and the unknown. The exhibition takes its title from a throwaway phrase her Zumba instructor Michiko shouted in class one day as she waved her arms in a large arch as the class jumped in unison from side to side while listening to Iz Kamakawiwoʻole’s version of “Somewhere Over the Rainbow.”