{"id":40779,"date":"2015-04-07T00:46:29","date_gmt":"2015-04-07T00:46:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=40779"},"modified":"2015-04-07T00:46:29","modified_gmt":"2015-04-07T00:46:29","slug":"laura-kina-blue-hawaii-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=40779","title":{"rendered":"LAURA KINA Blue Hawai\u2019i"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brooklynrail.org\/contributor\/jonathan-goodman\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>LAURA KINA Blue Hawai\u2019i<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brooklynrail.org\" target=\"_blank\">The Brooklyn Rail: Critical Perspectives on Arts, Politics, and Culture<\/a><br \/>\nBrooklyn, New York<br \/>\n2015-04-02<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jonathan Goodman<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>HAROLD B. LEMMERMAN GALLERY, NEW JERSEY CITY UNIVERSITY JANUARY 27 \u2013 MARCH 3, 2015<\/p>\n<p>As an Asian-American painter of mixed background, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laurakina.com\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Laura Kina<\/a> creates work that is as culturally relevant as it is emotionally resonant. Her father, who is of Japanese descent, grew up in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hawaii\" target=\"_blank\">Hawai\u2019i<\/a>, where he worked on sugarcane plantations before moving to the American mainland to become a doctor. In the compelling paintings shown in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Okinawa_Prefecture\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Blue Hawai\u2019i<\/em><\/a>, Kina addresses the persistence of Japanese culture among the sugarcane workers, many of whom, like the artist\u2019s father, had family ties to the Japanese island <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Okinawa_Prefecture\" target=\"_blank\">Okinawa<\/a>. In 2009, Kina and her father traveled to his plantation community in Hawai\u2019i to gain a sense of his past; then, in 2012, Kina and her father traveled to Okinawa itself, again to research the immigration of poor Japanese who came to Hawai\u2019i to harvest cane. The paintings on view in <em>Blue Hawai\u2019i<\/em> allude to her discoveries, which entail both the remnants of Japanese habits among the Hawaiian workers\u2014the word \u201cblue\u201d in the title of the show refers to the blue <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kimono\" target=\"_blank\">kimonos <\/a>refashioned for plantation work\u2014and the gradual, often troubled and troubling acculturation process. The exhibition consequently bridges inevitable feelings of displacement and loss with the desire to document Kina\u2019s father\u2019s past&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brooklynrail.org\/contributor\/jonathan-goodman\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAURA KINA Blue Hawai\u2019i The Brooklyn Rail: Critical Perspectives on Arts, Politics, and Culture Brooklyn, New York 2015-04-02 Jonathan Goodman HAROLD B. LEMMERMAN GALLERY, NEW JERSEY CITY UNIVERSITY JANUARY 27 \u2013 MARCH 3, 2015 As an Asian-American painter of mixed background, Laura Kina creates work that is as culturally relevant as it is emotionally resonant. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,1196,8,20],"tags":[19823,911,1793,19824,41,5098,19822],"class_list":["post-40779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-brooklyn-rail","tag-hawaii","tag-japan","tag-jonathan-goodman","tag-laura-kina","tag-okinawa","tag-the-brooklyn-rail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}