FLXST Contemporary invites you to the closing reception for Laura Kina and her solo show “Holding On.” This will be the last opportunity to view all the paintings in the series together in the FLXST A-Side gallery.
The show features a collection of artworks of sacred, WWII memorial sites, and present-day military-occupied spaces in Okinawa, Japan. The art show examines the intersections of ancestral longings and memory and legacies of trauma from war and occupation with the genre of landscape painting.
What: Closing Reception for Laura Kina and her solo show “Holding On”
When: Saturday, November 23, 5:30-8pm
Where: FLXST Contemporary, 2251 S. Michigan Ave. Suite 220
(Find FLXST Contemporary on the intercom to be buzzed in both doors. If you have problems with the intercom, call or text the gallery at 773-413-8030)
For more information, please email info@flxst.co or visit www.flxst.co
Facebook event info: https://www.facebook.com/events/499194904141076/?active_tab=about
Download the catalog and press packet here: https://www.flxst.co/laura-kina-holding-on
View pricing and availability here: https://www.artsy.net/show/flxst-contemporary-laura-kina-holding-on
Graphic used for event page: Laura Kina, Henoko Flight Path, Oura Bay, Okinawa, Japan (Version 1) Mixed media on watercolor paper (watercolor, pen, ink, colored pencil acrylic), 2019.
About the Artist
Born in California and raised in the Pacific Northwest, Laura Kina is a mixed-race Okinawan American artist and scholar based in Chicago. She earned her MFA from the University of Illinois at Chicago studying under Kerry James Marshall and a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is currently the Vincent de Paul Professor of Art, Media, & Design and Director of Critical Ethnic Studies at DePaul University. Kina is a 2019 Joan Mitchell Foundation Artist-in-Residence awardee, 2018 3Arts 3AP, and 2011 National Endowment for the Arts grants recipient. Her work has exhibited nationally and internationally including India Habitat Centre and India International Centre, Nehuru Art Centre, Okinawa Prefectural Art Museum, Chicago Cultural Center, Spertus Museum, the Japanese American National Museum, the Rose Art Museum, and the Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience. Kina’s work is in the HilgerBROTKunsthalle collection (Austria), DePaul School of Music, North Eastern Illinois University, and in private collections across the US, including the collection of Chicago gallerist Monique Meloche.
