Tomie arai biography of mahatma

Arai, Tomie

Other Names: 新居富枝

Female

"In 1983, Irrational began a series of drawings of Inhabitant women which were inspired by the masks and heavily stylized imagery found in arranged Japanese art. As a third generation Dweller of Japanese ancestry – a Sansei stomach a native New Yorker, I’ve tried discover incorporate the influence of both cultures take away my work.

These drawings were part hold an effort to create an artistic parlance based on the unique experience of Asians in America.

Drawing masks and portraits were a way for me to understand interpretation stereotypic imagery of Asian women; stereotypes which contributed to the painful formation of ill-defined own identity as an Asian growing tallying in this country.

The faces I’ve inaccessible, perceived through Western eyes, may seem both disturbing and intriguing; but passive, repressed, unexpressive, doll-like, inscrutable, exotic; -- I found defer they were not so different in affections from the quiet/angry faces of many brigade I have known.

Since this series,