Dina Mitrani Gallery. Kanako Sasaki

From Sept 11th through Oct 30th, 2010.

altIn her photographic series Wanderlust, on view this month at Dina Mitrani Gallery, Kanako Sasaki explores an imaginative world influenced by traditional Japanese novels, Ukiyo-e paintings and childhood memories. Within her surreal and eccentric settings, Sasaki’s characters, usually herself, evoke ideas of isolation, escape and uninhibited freedom. The juxtaposition of bleak emotion within a fantastical landscape leaves the viewer mesmerized with wonderment.  Sasaki’s work also comments on issues such as the female experience, loss of innocence, hopeless romance and how Japanese culture is viewed from the outside.

Kanako Sasaki was educated at the Royal College of Art in London and received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York. She has had solo exhibitions in the US, Japan, Bolivia and Hungary and has been included in many international group exhibitions.  She has participated in artist residencies in Iceland, Paris, Estonia, Vienna and New York and been awarded many fellowships and grants.  She has also taught photography at CUNY Staten Island, NY and the International Summer School of Photography in Latvia.

Dina Mitrani Gallery
2620 NW 2nd Avenue
Miami, FL 33127
786.486.7248
www.dinamitranigallery.com

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