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DESCRIPTION:<strong>6-9pm at the opening reception for "Sugar" at Women Mad
 e Gallery 685 N. Milwaukee Avenue Chicago\, IL.</strong>\n<strong>Sugar (2
 010)\n</strong>Set during the 1920&rsquo\;s-1940&rsquo\;s\, Laura Kina&rsq
 uo\;s SUGAR paintings recall obake ghost stories and feature Japanese and 
 Okinawan picture brides turned machete carrying sugar cane plantation fiel
 d laborers on the Big Island of Hawaii. Kina&rsquo\;s paintings take us in
 to a beautiful yet grueling world of manual labor\, cane field fires and f
 lumes.\nhttp://www.laurakina.com/artwork.html\n\nThe show was reviewed ear
 lier this week in a paper in Japan!\n\nKakazu\, Akiko. "Portrait of Immigr
 ant Brides: Okinawan Kina-san's Oil Painting Exhibition" Okinawa Times. 6\
 , September\, 2010.\n<a href="http://www.facebook.com/l/0d252RurUPVXM7ZCdb
 zFxp1aubA\;www.okinawatimes.co.jp/article/2010-09-06_9923/" target="_blank
 ">http://www.facebook.com/l/0d252RurUPVXM7ZCdbzFxp1aubA\;www.okinawatimes.
 co.jp/article/2010-09-06_9923/</a>\n\nFor more info visit:&nbsp\;<a href="
 http://www.facebook.com/l/0d252ITo4dsiF2ncmU-9flwQkug\;womanmade.org/show.
 html?type=solo&amp\;gallery=kina2010&amp\;pic=1" target="_blank">http://ww
 w.facebook.com/l/0d252ITo4dsiF2ncmU-9flwQkug\;womanmade.org/show.html?type
 =solo&amp\;gallery=kina2010&amp\;pic=1</a>\n\nAn article from the Okinawa 
 Times:\n\nKakazu\, Akiko. "Portrait of Immigrant Brides: Okinawan Kina-san
 's Oil Painting Exhibition" Okinawa Times. 6\, September\, 2010.

This
  article was originally published in Japanese. The English translation is 
 courtesy of Miho Matsugu\, DePaul University Assistant Professor Departmen
 t of Modern Languages\, Japanese Studies Program\n\nPortrait of Immigrant 
 Brides: Okinawan Kina-san&rsquo\;s Oil Painting Exhibition
September 6\,
  2010
Akiko Kakazu - The Okinawa Times Overseas reporter\n\n&nbsp\;
Oi
 l painting exhibition &ldquo\;Sugar\,&rdquo\; opening on September 10th at
  Women Made Gallery in Chicago\, IL\, focuses on immigrants from Okinawa t
 o the sugar cane fields of Hawai&rsquo\;i from 1900 to 1959.
 
The art
 ist is fourth-generation Okinawan Ms. Laura Kina\, who uses a pop art sens
 itivity to portray immigrant brides wearing work clothes in the fields\, h
 ands decorated with hajichi (Okinawan tattoos)\, beautiful figures doing e
 xtremely hard labor in stretches of burning fields and flooding creeks.

  
Displayed are ten works based on Ms. Kina&rsquo\;s memories of her fat
 her George Kina\, 66\, who was born on Hawai&rsquo\;i as a third-generatio
 n Okinawan\, and her grand parents\, as well as what she learned from elde
 rs on the Big Island and photos. 
 
Ms. Kina\, born to an Okinawan fat
 her and a Basque Spanish American mother\, grew up in a Norwegian immigran
 t community in Washington State\, and studied art in undergraduate and gra
 duate programs in Chicago.
 
She is currently teaching courses such as
  &ldquo\;Asian American Art and Culture&rdquo\; and &ldquo\;Art and Identi
 ty of Mixed Race&rdquo\; at DePaul University in Chicago. Her research and
  art work also focuses on consistent themes such as &ldquo\;Fluidity in Cu
 ltural Differences.&rdquo\; 
 
Ms. Kina has made works in her pursuit 
 of portraying Asian American history and people of mixed race. On her curr
 ent exhibition\, Ms. Kina says\, &ldquo\;I was moved by the fact that immi
 grant brides made their work clothes out of the kasuri fabrics they brough
 t and continued to wear\, remaking them repeatedly\,&rdquo\; throwing a ne
 w perspective on this historical chapter.&nbsp\;
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SUMMARY:Laura Kina "Sugar" 
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