Word on the Street: Image, Language, Signage

Featuring work by mixed roots visual artist Laura Kina.

Opening Reception: Friday, June 14, 5:00 – 7:00 pm

Exhibit runs June 14-August 10, 2013

Columbia College Center for Book and Paper Arts
1104 South Wabash Ave. 2nd floor, Chicago, IL 60605
Kina_AllAmericanFood_Okinawa_2013Gallery Hours: Monday – Saturday 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.

This exhibition considers the expressive potential of image and language through signage: how do artists use the visual and physical characteristics of signage, along with its often site specific cultural currency, to create realms of poetic or political meaning in public space or the gallery? With a focus on forms of permanent and ephemeral signage this exhibition will consider artists’ billboards, marquees, street signs, banners and posters among other forms of infrastructural signage.

For more info visit: http://www.colum.edu/Academics/Interarts/events/exhibitions/index.php

Pictured above is one of the new works I’ll be showing – Laura Kina “Okinawa – All American Food” 30 x 45 in., oil on canvas, 2013. See more new works at:http://www.laurakina.com/newwork2013.html