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DISTILLATIONS: MEDITATIONS ON THE JAPANESE AMERICAN EXPERIENCE

by Four Japanese American Women Artists:

Reiko Fujii, Lucien Kubo, Shizue Seigel, Judy Shintani

Four Sansei (third-generation Japanese American) artists explore the rich, complex interplay of past and present in contemporary Asian American life through a diverse array of media and techniques including collage, assemblage, glass, found objects, painting, photography, video, installation, and performance.  These artists draw from personal and family memories to reflect on "Japanese American" as singular label and as universal American experience. The Japanese American experience offers a lens for all Americans to revisit the Eastern philosophy of embracing an expansive and evolving "both - and" rather than limiting ourselves to "either - or." As hybrid Americans we celebrate both our commonalities and our differences; our uniqueness as Americans and our connection to the global community; and our attunement with the present and with the resonance of history and tradition.

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