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ExhibitionsUpcoming Exhibitions: Roundhouse Arts and Community Center Crucible Gallery Recent Exhibitions: All Angels Church galeria de ida victoria The Nagasaki Peace Museum Invitational Exhibition Dimasalang 3 The Elliott Louis Gallery Regent College The Canadian
Institute of Portrait Artists (CIPA) 2006
Open Exhibition Kyoto City International Foundation Japanese Overseas Migration Museum
Kusawake S.Brooke Anderson visually documents the Japanese Immigration of the late 1800’ and early 1900’s to the Pacific Northwest through landscape and portraiture. Thematically arranged, her landscapes explore the lure of the vision of the western landscape, and what this vision represented to the Japanese Emigrants that drew them to North America. The landscape itself with its open skies and vastness unmistakably embodied the values associated with North America, fueling a desire to seek change and opportunity in a new land. Her portraiture and figurative paintings of Japanese Emigrants, are inspired by historical passport photographs from both U.S. and British Columbia archives, and from personal photographs belonging to descendants of Japanese Immigrants to Canada and the US. These paintings explore the emotional journey through the faces of those who left Japan, going to the Pacific Northwest in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s. Also explored in this collection is the changing face of the landscape upon arrival to the Pacific Northwest. The land as the Japanese immigrants encountered it is portrayed, inspired by historical quotations and/or photographs from the BC archives. Translated in Japanese Dr. Andrea Geiger's article: Imagined Landscapes - The North American West (PDF)
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Selected Exhibitions
Regent College |
Pthalo Gallery |
Federation of Canadian Artists |
Federation of Canadian Artists |
Moat Gallery |
Plaza of Nations |