Congratulations to gallery artist Lauren Iida, who was commissioned in 2022/23 to create a 325 square foot, hand-cut paper installation for the new Meta offices in Bellevue, WA. This monumental work in paper and watercolor is inspired by historical images of Japanese Americans from the Densho digital archives and honoring farmers of Japanese descent who used…
ArtXchange Gallery presents Citizen’s Indefinite Leave, a new series of intricate paper cutaways by Lauren Iida incorporating historical scenes from the unjust incarceration of 126,000 people of Japanese ancestry in the USA during World War II. With the assistance from Seattle-based organization, Densho, Iida was able to dive deeper into her own family’s history and create a narrative…
ArtXchange Gallery artist Lauren Iida on the PBS “American Portrait” national storytelling project
The International Examiner Justine Chan, March 15, 2016 Encountering one of Seattle-based, Japanese American artist Lauren Iida’s paper cut pieces is like emerging from a darkroom into a day blinding bright and stark with outline and shadow. The paper cuts tell stories in singular scenes from a life both familiar and strange: a woman selling…