My Obaachan (grandma) seeing the piece we made inspired by her story ❤️❤️❤️.
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“Far From Home 2” is directly inspired by Darren’s grandmother’s experience post-WWII. She spent the last two years of high school living in a Jewish American family’s home in Minnesota, cleaning and babysitting to earn her keep while attending school, because her family could not afford to live together. This painting is an homage to the many young Japanese American girls who were separated from their families for the sake of survival, with dreams of being reunited again.
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To help us celebrate our dear Shawn Mary Vezinaw Hosner’s legacy and to help us dig out from the mountain of medical bills from her 15 month long battle with stage 4 metastatic breast cancer, we have launched a special suite of fund-raising editions in tandem with our good friends at Static Medium.
Static Medium is generously waving all productions fees and the artists are donating the full runs to helping us re-build, get out of debt and back into fighting shape for 2025 and beyond, not to mention build towards a fund for our future art award in Shawn’s honor with our good friends at JUXTAPOZ. All of your support thus far has been overwhelming to us and we can not begin to express in words what this all means to us, as we are all still so in shock at the loss of our dear Shawn.
We are excited to keep the fund-raising editions going later this week with two beautiful new prints from Giorgiko. This pair of works were originally featured in the duo’s ‘What Is (and what is not)’ solo exhibition that we put on together here in Los Angeles at Thinkspace.
“Listening 1” and “Listening 2” from @giorgiko.la will be available this Friday, March 15 at 10am PST / 1pm EST via our web shop (link in bio) as part of a special 72 hour sale that will run through Monday, March 18th at 10am PST / 1pm EST. The edition will be based on the number of prints that sell during this period.
Full details have been shared on our Facebook page and via our e-mail newsletter. A mail blast will be shared again this Friday morning to remind everyone. A link is shared in our bio so that you can subscribe to our newsletter. You can also join our ’Thinkspace Family’ channel here on Instagram to get all the latest, first.
Shipping costs are additional and will be calculated during check out. Any customs or duty fees incurred, are not the responsibility of the gallery.
Sorry, no pre-sales are available.
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“Far from Home 2” 48”x 60” oil on canvas.
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This painting is an homage to my Bachan, my grandmother, who spent the last two years of high school living in a Jewish American family’s home in Minnesota, cleaning and babysitting to earn her keep while attending school, because her family could not afford to live together.
“Far From Home 2” speaks to the experience of my Bachan as well as many other young Japanese American girls post-WWII who were separated from family for the sake of survival, with dreams of being reunited again.
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Music by @whenmountainsmove via @artlist.io
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