Asawa gracefully wove together many sides — an innovative and singular artist, a tireless advocate for arts education, a community builder, and a loving wife and mother.
Alex Paik
Alex Paik is an artist, community builder, curator, and writer based in Los Angeles. Paik is Founder and Director of Tiger Strikes Asteroid, a non-profit network of artist-run spaces and serves on the Steering Committee at GYOPO, a collective of diasporic Korean cultural producers and arts professionals. You can follow him on Instagram at @alexpaik.
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Asian Diasporic Artists Ask How We Create Our Self-Images
A group exhibition focuses on the fragmented nature of identity and the circular loop of external and internal feedback involved in self-image creation.
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From the Fire’s Remains, Kelly Akashi Sculpts Possibility
In the aftermath of tragedy, Akashi shows us the importance of the ability to imagine and create new structures, to see the potential futures in a seed.
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The Sinister Subtext of Farshid Bazmandegan’s Paintings
The artist’s latest show connects the art industry with geopolitics, urging us to examine our role in a complicated negotiation of denial and strategic ignorance.
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Can Asian-American Identity Still Be a Political Home?
Legacies examines the varied strategies Asian-American artists used to navigate New York from 1969 through 2001, offering lessons for the future.
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An Abstract Painter’s Disciplined Grace
Brooklin A. Soumahoro’s luminous paintings are filled with moments of alchemy, transforming shape into line and discipline into grace.
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Spirit House Manifests the Ghosts of Asian-American History
The artists in this exhibition know that we cannot simply “get over” the history of racialization, as well as the destructive legacy of US imperialism.
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How Korean Artists Captured and Resisted a Turbulent Political Era
Artists of the silheom misul movement in the 1960s and ‘70s wrestled with an increasingly globalizing, industrializing, and politically censorious Korean art world.
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Must Asian Americans Always Be Seen in Relation to One Another?
Scratching at the Moon hones in on a loose network of artists that have known each other for decades in Los Angeles.
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Guimi You Finds the Poetic Possibilities of Paint
You’s paintings exude a sense of sweet, childlike wonder, where each moment is filled with possibility.
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The Poetry of Place in Teresa Baker’s Art
Baker’s art exudes the deep and spiritual connection to nature that she has gained from her Mandan/Hidatsa family.
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Trương Cong Tung Sees History in a Gourd
Trương Cong Tung’s art is a meditation on the complex interdependent variables that constitute a diasporic experience, one that offers no easy or concrete answers.