#aapi artists

[erikohattori]

“The Moon Stays Bright in the Darkness,” 18”x24”, Graphite on paper, 2024.

[gryphll]

rabbit year :o)

[uwmspeccoll]

It’s Feral Friday! 

This week we’re taking a look at This Land is My Land, a newly acquired addition to our collection from book artist, concrete poet, & graphic designer Thad Higa. This 100-page work is “a fictional narrative from the imagined headspace of current day, online white supremacists, nationalists, and their sympathizers”. It was digitally printed, features Coptic binding with uncovered boards as well as two multi-page foldouts, and was self-published in a limited edition of 50 numbered copies in Oakland, CA in 2023. 

Higa is an Okinawan-Korean American cultural worker born in California in 1989 and raised in Hawaiʻi. His practice “investigates the intersections of language, technology, capitalism and eurocentrism, and their roles in controlling perceptions of reality and legibility.” In This Land is My Land, Higa “weaves together all manner of rhetorical devices and strategies, creating an experience familiar to anyone who has read the comments on an online article or listened to attendees at a Trump rally.” The structure of the book inherently encourages interaction, emphasizing the participatory and performative nature not only of reading & text-based communication but also of the formation and enaction of political identity.  

His work has been highlighted on the Lantern Review, Artists’ Book Reviews, Art Review, Art Papers & Hawai’i Public Radio, and featured in the exhibitions whistling the avant garde (Small Press Traffic, San Francisco CA, 2023) and O, (FiveMyles, Brooklyn NY, 2021).  

--Ana, Special Collections Graduate Intern 

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[pinayelf-archive]

I made it just in time! My contribution for AAPI month: Immy in a Filipiniana inspired by gumamela (hibiscus)

it’s not the Philippines’ national flower, but it’s nostalgic to me as it was the flower that grew in front of my childhood home before we immigrated to the US. I thought the petals would make a beautiful skirt

[roserayne]

This week's drawing, an original

[juliettelime]

wip photos while working on a new linocut print (redraw of sorts of this sketch from 2020) for an upcoming print exchange! i haven’t made a lino print in five years lol

ty @meister-marrow for helping me print <3

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[floodkiss]

old piece about cultural commodification + being a former restaurant kid. happy aapi month 🪷✨

[theoffingmag]

Untitled (202012-Oil), 2020, acrylic on canvas, 20 x 16 in, © Candy Koh, 2020.

Dreaming plays an important role in Candy Koh’s artistic journey. Her dreams were intensely vivid, leaving her awash with emotions upon waking. These weren’t just typical dreams but intense experiences that were her reality. In moments when reality feels too heavy and expressing her internal world becomes challenging, she retreats into these dreamlike spaces, a place where her unutterable thoughts and emotions can exist freely beyond the confines of the physical world.

Jaeyeon Chung, "There Was Never a Beginning or End in the First Place"

[blackcardmems]

Next recap roundup of our AAPI Selects!!! 💛

Check out these amazing creators and maybe throw them a follow!

@lattedraws

@liliuhms

@therosecleric

@nyangjinart

@greatgalatyka

@/silver__sora

@rachy-chel

Wanna see these daily? Head over to our Twitter!

[emberz7]

Another filipino/Chinese deltarune artist let's goooooo

0EMGEE THATS AWESOME

[erikohattori]

“Someone’s at the Horizon,” 14”x17.5”, Gouache and Ink on Paper, 2020

IG 🥰

Buy my prints 😘

[gryphll]

Fighting!!

[stevenfact]

Support Indie AAPI Publishing!!

Hi, everyone!!! I know it's been a while (like many years...) and Steven/Ryan kinda dropped the bomb by being a very lame capitalist (boo). This is why it's awesome that you can now support very cool & awesome AAPI creatives who are NOT trying to swindle you (YAY!)

I've been volunteering at Slant'd, an indie nonprofit publisher focused on uplifting and sharing AAPI writers, artists, and creatives! Issue 06: Homecoming is a collection of heartwarming and provocatively told stories that unpack the different layers of home and the complex feelings and experiences that come with it. You can pre-order here (+ other cool rewards you can check out!) Kickstarter operates on an all-or-nothing basis, so please consider backing us today. BONUS: Since we’re a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, some of our rewards are tax-deductible! We also have corporate deals/bundles, so let me know if you're interested in your 9-5 supporting Slant'd!  Instead of supporting very sad ex-buzzfeed employees who are now apologizing on the couch, you can now support upcoming AAPI artists! BTW here's our IG if you want to check it out.

We're dangerously close to not hitting our goal :( so help us out by supporting our Kickstarter (you can donate from $1), signal boosting this post, and sharing more Slant'd content. Think of sharing this post like... if you don't reblog this post your worst enemy (Steven Lim) might haunt you with capitalist BS! And also we're accepting book proposals if you're an AAPI writer looking for a publisher!

[juliettelime]

happy one year to my love @meister-marrow 💜

here’s the story of the date we went on a year ago! 😊

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[sonoe-13]

This is a more developed sketch of "Pet" which will be an illustration about the fetishization of Asian people by non-Asians. It is heavily referenced from an image I found in an article, I've posted the image below is an earlier post.

[rougedraconteur]

Nope you idiots, do your research.

Not my job to defend Darren Criss-endom (2019, Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Limited Series for The Assassination of Gianni Versace-American Crime Story, mom Cerena Criss is native of Philippines) but IT IS your job to get this right. I swear to god, so-called celebrity journalism is a joke. Just call yourselves marketing/public relations/say anything for a buck celeb wanna-bes and be done with it. Plus, whenweallvote idiots, Criss has always been a big campaigner for voting rights and educating his community to know the issues and register as soon as you are eligible, so double screw-up for you. Plus, let’s go three for three, you just managed to make the Golden Globes old guard look smarter than you young media hustlers and politicos, so there’s THAT. Get your shit together.

Congratulations to @steveyeun & @aliwong who each won ‘Best Actor in a Limited Series’ at the #GoldenGlobes! 😍

They’ve made history tonight as the first Asian-American woman and second Asian-American man to win in their respective categories 🏆