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…
Lauren Iida discusses her art practice and Open Studio Cambodia, the artist collective she founded in 2018, with the Phnom Penh Post. Iida says that she really loves using hand-cut paper as her primary medium because the materials are not complicated or expensive and though it can be time consuming the process itself and the…
ArtXchange Gallery presents Works on Paper, a group exhibition celebrating the wide-ranging possibilities of one of the world’s most accessible art materials. Featured in this exhibition is the work of gallery artists Alan Lau, Gilchun Koh, Donald Cole, Jiyoung Chung, and Elaine Hanowell, who each bring their own distinct sensibility to the idea of “work…
Thank you to writer Kiyomi Kishaba for a thoughtful review of Lauren Iida’s solo show, Citizen’s Indefinite Leave, in the Feb 2022 issue of the International Examiner. Read the full article here! “Iida’s main art form is hand-cut paper. Her previous piece Memory Net is a 30-foot long paper intricately cut to resemble a fish net that…
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…
hand felting hanji paper, into the world of contemporary art. Chung’s richly textured, dimensional joomchi sculptures create poetic visual narratives about connection, and the strengths and holes in the essential relationship between humanity, nature, and spirit.
ArtXchange Gallery is proud to present 32 Aspects of Daily Life, a new series of mixed-media, paper cut-away portraits by Lauren Iida. In this exhibition, Iida pays homage to a series of the same name, created in the 1880s by Japanese woodblock artist, Tsukioka Yoshitoshi (1839-1892). Utilizing watercolor and ink, alongside her distinct paper cut-away technique, Iida depicts female-identifying people that she has connected with during her daily life.
Opening First Thursday April 5, 5-8pm, ArtXchange Gallery presents Between and Within: A Tenuous Beauty. This exhibition by three artists (based in Rhode Island, South Korea and Seattle) explores the changing climate of nature’s textures from chaotic to serene, impacted by human development and the accelerating diminishment of natural resources. The complex choreography of the…
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