Fonda Yoshimoto: Upcoming Exhibition

Monday, May 14, 2012

Upcoming Exhibition

Crossing Borders

Group Exhibition, Curated by Pamela Ybañez

Artists include:

Cat Chiu Phillips (San Diego)

Fonda Yoshimoto (Oakland)

Mitsuko Brooks (New York City)

Scott Tsuchitani (San Francisco)

Pamela Ybañez (Oakland)

Julie Thi Underhill (Berkeley)

Jave Gakumei Yoshimoto (Syracuse NY)

Julie Lee (Oakland)

Momoko Sudo (Oakland)

Asians in America come upon many boundaries, some for a crossing and some remain untouched. The artists gathered here have taken position, crossing/touching various borders and giving us new ways to examine the political and/or the personal.

To this day Asians are still seen as the constant foreigner and at the same time as the model minority. Here, as artists and individuals residing in our communities, we have created a place to visually investigate ourselves or how we are perceived in generalities. It is a place where the political and personal intermingle. Some examine the borders surrounding the body while others pertain to cultural borders. At times addressing both simultaneously.

May 12 to July 30, 2012

Artist's Reception: Wednesday May 16th 7-9 pm

Free and open to the public at:

The Oakland Asian Cultural Center

388 Ninth Street (2nd floor of the Pacific Renaissance Plaza)

In Oakland's Chinatown

May is Asian Pacific American Heritage Month!

Celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage Month at the Oakland Asian Cultural Center at one or more of these amazing events and workshops!

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Making is a way of thinking and feeling. My work centers on emotion, individual and collective memory and experience, expressed through sculpting objects, mark making and altering spaces. I explore patterning, drawing with ink and chalk on paper and walls, and three-dimensionally with ceramics and textiles. Ornamentation in my work is voracious, constricting and expanding, winding through space and on every surface. Ornamentation can express identity, can mark belonging to a tribe, space, era, or home. The patterning takes over; I make marks out of need, a kind of anxious comfort. The space defines me, caught between creating pattern and scratching, wiping, willing it away. The mark making becomes a palimpsest, layers and layers of history, of motion, are visible. There is a physical and psychological tension in this time intensive process, as it becomes a ritual of remembrance. In each line is etched a memory; a thought, a scar, a stretch mark, a loved one or moment passed. I see my work as somewhere between a dream and a nightmare, inside and outside, healthy and unhealthy, engineered and makeshift, safe and dangerous, comforting and eerie. My process consists of an impulsive need to create, to move materials, fix, break, alter, and transform. Sometimes slow and methodical with refined craftsmanship and details, sometimes quick and rough, building out of necessity.

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