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Unfinished Proof Ninomiya Exhibit Collection
DH.2019.141
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Contributing Institution:
University Archives
Title: Unfinished Proof Ninomiya Exhibit Collection
Creator:
Nakagawa, Alan
Identifier/Call Number: DH.2019.141
Physical Description:
1 box
Physical Description:
.42 Linear Feet
Date: February 26-April 10, 2019; undated
Abstract: This collection includes watercolor paintings from four workshops with the CSUDH Art Students and students from Banning High
School for the Unfinished Proof Ninomiya Exhibit by the PRAXIS Program in collaboration with the Gerth Archives and Special
Collections Artist-In-Resident, Alan Nakagawa.
Language of Material:
English
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This collection was processed in March 2024 by Jennifer Hill.
For related material see the
Ninomiya Studio Collection.
The Unfinished Proof Ninomiya Exhibit Collection (February-April 2019) contains .42 linear feet of watercolor paintings, photographs,
and notes related to the Unfinished Proof Ninomiya Exhibit Collection. The exhibit was created by the PRAXIS Program in collaboration
with the Gerth Archives and Special Collections Artist-In-Resident, Alan Nakagawa.
"Alan Nakagawa is an interdisciplinary artist with archiving tendencies, primarily working with sound, often incorporating
various media and working with communities and their histories.
Nakagawa has been working on a series of semi-autobiographic sound-architecture/tactile sound experiences, utilizing multi-point
audio field recordings of historic interiors; Peace Resonance; Hiroshima/Wendover combines recordings of the interiors of
the Hiroshima Atomic Dome (Hiroshima, Japan) and Wendover Hangar (Utah); Conical Sound; Antoni Gaudi and Simon Rodia combines
recordings of the interiors of Watts Towers (Los Angeles) and the Sagrada Familia (Barcelona, Spain).
Premiered in 2023, Point of Turn, is his first vibratory sound work involving the human voice; utilizing collected stories
about moments or events that resulted in someone leaving their organized religion. For this work, the combining of these stories
and the analog data stretching of a verse and chorus of the 1970's seminal pop band, 10CC's hit song, "I'm Not in Love".
Nakagawa is also currently the artist-in-resident at the Gerth Archives, California State University Dominguez Hills assigned
to the newly acquired L.A. Free Press/Art Kunkin Collection." Nakagawa also was the artist-in-resident for the Ninomiya Studio
Collection in 2019. This exhibit also had pop-up exhibits throughout Los Angeles.
"His first book, "A.I.R.Head: Anatomy of an Artist in Residence" was published in January 2023 by Writ-Large Press. It maps
his artistic trajectory that led to his nine artist-in-residencies in six years.
He was the first artist in resident for the Los Angeles Department of Transportation and the Los Angeles County Library. Nakagawa
was invited by the Smithsonian Museum of American History to research the development of the hearing aid in the US. He currently
resides in Los Angeles' Koreatown and continues to exhibit and develop his creative practice.
Nakagawa is a recipient of two Art Matters grants, City of Los Angeles Artist Fellowship, California Community Foundation
Mid-Career Artist Fellowship and a Monbusho Scholar. He co-founded arts collective non-profit Collage Ensemble Inc. (1984-2011),
curated experimental music weekly Ear Meal Webcast (2010-2017), produced public practice artist interviews podcast VISITINGS
Radio Show (2017-2020) and administers the website Asian American Futurism (2022-Present)."
Biographical:
Alan Nakagawa.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Watercolor Painting
Japanese American photographers
Ninomiya Family
California State College, Dominguez Hills