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harvardfineartslib · 1 year

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Alfonso Ossorio (b.1916, Manila, Philippines – d. 1990, New York, NY) was born in the Philippines to wealthy parents of Chinese, Filipino, and Hispanic ancestry. He moved to the United States in 1930. He studied at both Harvard University and the Rhode Island School of Design and then served in the military as a medical illustrator during the World War II.

His oil painting entitled “Beachcomber” (1953) is densely patterned with non-Western visual icons and images similar to the tribal art of Oceania which Ossorio admired at the Peabody Museum while an undergraduate at Harvard. The entire canvas is filled with endless sea of abstract forms, creating horror vacui, leaving a very little emptiness for viewers.

Image 1: Front cover of “Asian|American|Modern Art

Image 2: Alfonso Ossorio, “Beachcomber,” 1953, Oil on canvas, 84”x 144”

Asian American modern art : shifting currents, 1900-1970 Daniell Cornell and Mark Dean Johnson, editors ; Gordon H. Chang ... [et al.]. San Francisco, CA : Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco ; Berkeley : University of California Press, c2008. English HOLLIS number: 990117463940203941

#AsianAmericanandPacificIslanderHeritageMonth #AAPIHeritagemonth #AAPIheritage #AAPI #AlfonsoOssorio #AsianAmericanartist #FilipinoAmericanartist #HarvardFineArtsLibrary #Fineartslibrary #Harvard #HarvardLibrary #harvardfineartslibrary #fineartslibrary #harvard #harvardfineartslib #harvard library #painting

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jacedotlcomics · 10 months

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An accurate depiction of what Dahl and Lia look like. In the comic, I just draw like that cause it's my personal style ✨

#dahliasdiary #70s #1970s #asianamericanartist #retroart #retroartist #digitalportrait #digitalpainting

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jchanart · 2 years

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I've been thinking about my Uncle Tommy a lot this week. He was the coolest and the kindest/friendliest person you could ever meet. He was the first supportive family member to ask me to paint a portrait of his little dog, Sushi, and then quickly followed up with asking how much I charge. He was also the first to tell me that I should charge people for my time because my time has value. A handful of people told me I was undercharging my work when I was tabling over the weekend... and they're right and I know this myself. I kept prices the same or low even though there have been paper shortage/hikes and I put so much time and effort into making/cutting them. So from now on you may see my shop prices change a tiny bit. Also if you bothered to read this far thanks! 💙❤️💛💙♥️💛💙♥️💛 This quick sketch painting made me more emotional than I thought it would. I miss my Uncle Tommy. I've been wanting to tell his story a bit so that too has been on my list of autobio Nanners comics to do. Maybe you'll hear about it sometime soon. . . . . . . . . #illustrator #nonbinaryartist #aapi #asianamericanartist #portrait https://www.instagram.com/p/ChVmyxQL3s4/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#illustrator #nonbinaryartist #aapi #asianamericanartist #portrait

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kookookchoo · 1 year

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Giant Robot: Asian Pop Culture and Beyond #artbound ep is now available to watch online from @kcet (link in bio)! @giantrobot was the first art magazine that I ever read when I left HI for art school, the first magazine I ever got a subscription for on my own, and the first original art piece I ever bought was from their gallery online (by @dethpsun)! It was so reassuring & inspiring as a student to see artists who looked like me making work I loved with similar influences as my own (especially when I was surrounded by what felt like a very “traditional” & “Western”-minded environment). I didn’t know at the time that my own art career would turn out to have such a focus in self-publishing and printed media, as well. A few HI artists got asked to make a print of Big Boss Robot to promote the documentary for HI folx, so this is my version: Beach Bum Big Boss Musubi! 🤙🌈☀️🌊 I feel so incredibly lucky to share work alongside such amazing artists! Thank you for inviting me to join, @umitoyshawaii! * * * #giantrobot #asianamericanartist #asianpopcultureandbeyond #hawaiiartist #musubi #kelschoo #kookookchoo https://www.instagram.com/p/CkP6dwyu8Po/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#artbound #giantrobot #asianamericanartist #asianpopcultureandbeyond #hawaiiartist #musubi #kelschoo #kookookchoo

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angeles3289 · 2 years

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I have volunteer to do #eventphotography for #apature2022 @kearnystreetworkshop #autonomy #arts #asianamericanartist #filam #kearnystreetworkshop #comics #zines #literature #kapwagardens #missionsf #sf (at Kapwa Gardens) https://www.instagram.com/p/CkCq8F8LYYS/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#eventphotography #apature2022 #autonomy #arts #asianamericanartist #filam #kearnystreetworkshop #comics #zines #literature #kapwagardens #missionsf #sf

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badxxxtran · 2 years

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It takes a second to gain everything and lose it all. Why does that matter at the end of the day I’m one for all. They can slander, slow, push, and drag me down. I will continue regardless of trials of tribulations. The only way to stop me now is to kill me. Happy Memorial Day. New music video on the way. PC: @special_edgar . . . #badasstran #southsidesanjose #thebayareamusic #sanhoe #asianamericanartist #vietnameseamericanartist #independentmusician #musician #songwriter #musical #art #musiclife #inspiration #rolemodel https://www.instagram.com/p/CeNWDYqL3oj/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#badasstran #southsidesanjose #thebayareamusic #sanhoe #asianamericanartist #vietnameseamericanartist #independentmusician #musician #songwriter #musical #art #musiclife #inspiration #rolemodel

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cartoonconnie · 2 years

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Yellow Jacket 2022-02-08

If you see someone wearing a very vintage yellow jacket walking around, it might be me! ⁣The story of how my Dad got this for me when I moved to NYC 15 years ago. ⁣ My brain wants to tell longer stories these days, but I don't have a great way to share them yet. Many ideas are too long for short comics and take more time to develop. I'm still working on a book. This is an awkward comic strip that is more a window into my creative process than a finished product.⁣ ⁣ Thanks for patiently reading along and not giving up on me.⁣ Connie on Ko-fi ⁣ [3-page comic. Page 1, 2 panels: flashback to Los Angeles, 2007. A father proudly holds up a large yellow jacket on a hanger to a younger version of the girl. The girl tries it on and looks ridiculous. Text reads, "15 years ago, my dad got me a large, second-hand, butter-yellow, puffy jacket to wear when I moved to New York City. He says, matter-of-factly, "It's so you can survive winters and not get hit by cars." Page 2: illustration of an yellow armchair, walking passed a fire hydrant on the sidewalk. Text reads, "For years, I was too embarrassed to wear it because it made me look like a piece of yellow upholstered furniture." Page 3: girl with a bun, wearing an overwhelming, butter-yellow jacket because it was given to her by her father and is a reminder of where she comes from. Text reads, "I recently took it out of storage and started wearing it again because, if my dad taught me anything, it's "WHO CARES what anybody else thinks?!"]⁣

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sexyporcelaingirl · 3 years

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Staring at is not always looking at, or even observing... BUT LET’S observe what Morganna Deveraux has got... Studio Lites. #morgannadevoraux #studioliteslasvegas #studiolites #studiolite #asianamericanmodel #asianamericanartist #asianamericanphotograper #vegasasiangirl #morgannadeveraux Check her place out. @sexyporcelaingirl (at Studio Lites) https://www.instagram.com/p/COc66cgn_l5/?igshid=nxhbit0zlz9r

#morgannadevoraux #studioliteslasvegas #studiolites #studiolite #asianamericanmodel #asianamericanartist #asianamericanphotograper #vegasasiangirl #morgannadeveraux

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brotherhoodnovel · 4 years

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Like it’s predecessor The Brotherhood, The Dance Towards Death has won a Pencraft Award, this time in the 2020 Asian-American Thriller category! https://www.pencraftaward.com/ #authorsofinstagram #author #bookawards #awards #awardwinning #award #bookstagram #book #booklover #books #thriller #thrillers #mystery #mysterybooks #asian #asianamerican #asianamericans #asianamericanartist #asianamericanwriters #asianamericanwritersworkshop #indianamerican #indianamericans #noir #hardboiled #hardboileddetective #detective #hardboileddetectives #pencraft #pencraftawards #pencraftaward https://www.instagram.com/p/CGkhyjyhSZT/?igshid=1l1s2rkdgpp1t

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roastedricetea · 4 years

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I definitely learned how to play that Naruto song on my flute as a child. 🔪 #kunai #kunaitattoo #patattooers #phillyartist #asianamericanartist #willowgrove #willowgrovepa (at Venue Tattoo and Piercing) https://www.instagram.com/p/CGFtFOqjchI/?igshid=1da08mm7kl78c

#kunai #kunaitattoo #patattooers #phillyartist #asianamericanartist #willowgrove #willowgrovepa

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harvardfineartslib · 2 years

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In memory of Hung Liu who passed away last August and in honor of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month.

Hung Liu was a Chinese American artist who once said her goal was “to invent a way of allowing myself to practice as a Chinese artist outside of a Chinese culture.”

Liu was born in 1948 during the revolutionary era in Changchun in northeast China,. Her father was a teacher imprisoned for his involvement in anti-Communist politics. During the Cultural Revolution, she was sent by the government to the countryside to work on farms for “re-education.”

In the 1970s, Liu studied at Beijing Teachers College and Central Academy of Fine Arts, and earned a graduate degree in 1981. But she grew restless with the officially-sanctioned Socialist Realist style and subjects. In 1984, she was given a permission to travel to the United States and enrolled in the MFA program at the University of California, San Diego.

Liu settled permanently in the Bay Area. She started teaching at Mills College in Oakland in 1990, eventually retiring in 2014.

Her death in August 2021 came less than three weeks before the scheduled opening of a career survey, “Hung Liu: Portraits of Promised Lands,” at the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C. She was the first Asian American woman to have a solo exhibition there.

Her work incorporated photo-based images that combined the political and the personal. Many of these images were of figures forgotten by history such as laborers, immigrants, prisoners, and prostitutes. (From “Hung Liu, Artist Who Blended East and West, Is Dead at 73” by Holland Cotter, The New York Times, August 22, 2021)

Image: “Sister Hoods”, 2003, Oil on canvas, 72”x 72” Summoning ghosts : the art of Hung Liu Oakland Museum of California. Liu, Hung, 1948-2021 招魂 Berkeley : University Of California Press, 2013. 216 p. : ill. ; 28 cm. English 2013. HOLLIS number: 990136645170203941

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archivesofamericanart · 5 years

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Louise Jones (artist name Ouizi) created a mural for the Archives of American Art exhibition Bloom which opened March 1st at the Lawrence A. Fleischman Gallery. The show will continue until up until October 6th. Here is Ouizi working on the mural a week before the show opened. Come to the exhibition to see the completed mural!

#ouizi #LouiseJones #ArchivesOfAmericanArt #bloom #muralist #exhibition #womenshistorymonth #bloommural #flowers #asianamericanartist

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jchanart · 2 years

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I finally surprised my friends with this portrait I made back in the spring over the weekend. When you know your best friend for 10+ years, you get an idea of the things they love. This wedding portrait is for @teenytinynoni a.k.a @pumpkinhead902 and it's a representation of that and our friendship. This was by far my favorite portrait to paint/draw because I know her and her partner Skid, well enough that they aren't the traditional sort, adore a little weirdness, and are unashamed to decorate their home with things that they love. They've always been together and I wish them many years of even more love, happiness, and luck/health! (Also I have to do this because of our friendship and we don't do sap here. Gross! Ew!🙈) ♥️🖤🤍🧡♥️🖤🤍🧡♥️🖤 . . . . . #illustration #kidlitartist #nonbinaryartist #asianamericanartist #portrait #nonbinarypride #comicartist https://www.instagram.com/p/Cey1ulVuUbr/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

#illustration #kidlitartist #nonbinaryartist #asianamericanartist #portrait #nonbinarypride #comicartist

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motomichinakamura · 5 years

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“Okami”, an animated music video for @nicolacruzz from @zzkrecords ! It’s a 2D animation with projection mapping. All the outdoor scenes were shot in Red Hook, Brooklyn. You can view the full version at: www.vimeo.com/317617673 #nicolacruz #okami #motomichi_nakamura #motomichinakamura #zzkrecords #projectionmapping #videomapping #projectionbombing #streetprojection #urbanprojections #urbanartwork #smartvandalism #cryptozoology #urbanmonster #asianamericanartist #japaneseamericanartist #2danimations (at Red Hook, Brooklyn) https://www.instagram.com/p/BztFsUdgxWv/?igshid=czjvzqfsawcx

#nicolacruz #okami #motomichi_nakamura #motomichinakamura #zzkrecords #projectionmapping #videomapping #projectionbombing #streetprojection #urbanprojections #urbanartwork #smartvandalism #cryptozoology #urbanmonster #asianamericanartist #japaneseamericanartist #2danimations

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jinnyly · 5 years

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Evolution of a name. Felt like it was time to evolve a bit so this new signature was created, inspired by the recent street artists I met. The "J" has remained but instead of the "L" there's the Chinese character for my last name "Ly" or "Lee" (they're both the same character in Chinese). I feel like this new creation properly sets the tone for who I am as an artist, while at the same time honoring my family for what they've gone through to give me a better life. I want to inspire others to follow their dreams and heart. Happiness and life is what you make of it. (Permanent marker on a photo taken by me.) . . #artist #evolution #jinnyly #paris #drawing #photography #eiffeltower #toureiffel #teochewartist #asianamericanartist #pourquoipas https://www.instagram.com/p/ByqjmWYIbBi/?igshid=dcv61xr3spyy

#artist #evolution #jinnyly #paris #drawing #photography #eiffeltower #toureiffel #teochewartist #asianamericanartist #pourquoipas

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boxblur--ccg · 2 years

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From one day to the next… art installer #drewgrasso is hard at work with his crew and ours @cclarkgallery to take down the exhibit of @wxzhang25 and prepare the shows of Al Farrow, Masami Teraoka, and Zeina Barakeh. Many thanks to #alfarrow and his sons #davidfarrow and #ericfarrow for added assistance and to #aileenmangan for working on a Monday. The exhibits of work by @masamiteraoka #alfarrow and @zeina.barakeh open Saturday, April 23, from 2-5 @cclarkgallery Please wear a mask and come to hear the artists’ remarks at 3:30. #willworkforartists #masamiteraoka #alfarrow #zeinabarakeh #sculpture #artfromweapons #artforpeace #socialjusticeart #painting #printmaking #video #politicalart #japaneseamericanartist #asianamericanartist #artaboutrussianaggressioninukraine #artaboutwar #swordstoplowshares #byzantine #triptychs #swanlake #lastswanlake #peaceforukraine #artfrommunitions #hawaiiartist #bayareaartist #contemporaryart (at Catharine Clark Gallery) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cci95kcp34M/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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