Laura Kina: Over the Rainbow, One More Time: Artist Talk
@ Riverside Arts Center Freeark Gallery
32 E Quincy St, Riverside, IL 60546
Opening Saturday, April 22nd, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Saturday, May 6th
Laura Kina
Over the Rainbow, One More Time
Artist Talk: Saturday, April 22, 2023 at 2:00 pm
The Riverside Arts Center’s Freeark Gallery is pleased to present Over the Rainbow, One More Time, a solo exhibition of paintings and mixed media art by Laura Kina, curated by Joanne Aono. 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 yearlong marriage, and coming out as queer, Laura Kina’s art traces her journey and memories through trauma into wellness and the unknown.
Please join us on Saturday, April 22nd at 2pm for an artist talk and exhibition walktrhough with Laura Kina.
Exhibition Dates: March 26 – May 6, 2023
Gallery hours: Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays 1:00 – 5:00 pm
Exhibition Catalogue: Available for purchase at the gallery and online
Riverside Arts Center
32 East Quincy Street
Riverside, Illinois 60546
www.riversideartscenter.com
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Laura Kina is a queer mixed-race Okinawan American artist and scholar. She received her BFA in Painting and Drawing from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and MFA in Studio Art from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Kina has exhibited her paintings and mixed-media art nationally and internationally in galleries and museums including the Chicago Cultural Center, India Habitat Centre, India International Centre, Japanese American National Museum, Okinawa Prefectural Art Museum, Rose Art Museum, the Smithsonian Archives of American Art, Spertus Museum, and the Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience. Kina is an Art Matters Foundation Grantee, and through 3Arts – 3AMP Mentorship artist, a Make a Wave artist, Joan Mitchell Center Fellow, 3AP Project awardee, and Ragdale Fellow.
Laura Kina is a Vincent de Paul Professor at The Art School at DePaul University; curator for the Virtual Asian American Art Museum; a co-founder of the Critical Mixed Studies conference, journal, and association; visual art section editor for Bridge; and series editor for The University of Washington Press for the Critical Ethnic Studies and Visual Culture book series. She co-edited War Baby/Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art and Queering Contemporary Asian American Art. In addition, she illustrated an award winning children’s book, Okinawan Princess: Da Legend of Hajichi Tattoos. Kina is a 2022-2023 Public Voices Op-Ed Project Fellow through DePaul University.
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