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  Six Minutes of Separation

  Joanne Aono
  

  Joanne Aono

  Title: Six Minutes of Separation

  Medium: Oil on Panel

  2012

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  Tomi & Yuki 1

  Joanne Aono
  

  Joanne Aono

  Title: Tomi & Yuki 1

  Medium: Ink on Linen Drawing

  2012

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  Relics From Camp

  Kristine Aono
  

  Kristine Aono
  "Relics from Camp" 1996 Installation view at the National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC.
  Community artifacts, dirt, glass panels, wood, two slide projectors with dissolve unit showing War time images from the National Archives and present-day images of the internment camps. Varies by location. Each individual box is approximately 36 x 36"
  Relics from Camp is an art installation that involved years of research, visiting the sites of all ten Japanese-American Internment Camps; photographing the sites, collecting soil, and interviewing present day occupants. The Artist's parents accompanied her to make pilgrimages to the camps where they had been incarcerated during WWII with their families. Relics from Camp has been exhibited at The Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles (JANM), the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC, and the Harold Washington Library in Chicago. It is currently on display in Los Angeles at JANM.
  
  Each time Relics from Camp is installed, Aono works with the local Japanese American community to collect artifacts former internees (and their families) have saved from the camps. Treasures such as hand crafted jewelry made from seashells, carved wooden game pieces, and hand sewn slippers made of scrap fabric were shared. Each Relic from Camp had a personal story which became the heart of the installation. Each Relic was place in a grid of soil from each camp, covered with glass panels that formed a large platform. As viewers walk over this platform, they trespass over the same soil that the Japanese American internees walked upon over half a century ago. Photographs of the Internment camps are projected on the walls, alternating present day images with historical photos taken during wartime.

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  The Nail That Sticks Up the Farthest...

  Kristine Aono
  

  Kristine Aono
  "The Nail That Sticks Up the Farthest..."
  Nails, documents, wood, styrofoam, burlap sacks, 11 x 47 feet, 2017.
  Installation view Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL February 4 - June 18, 2017. Part of a group exhibition, If You Remember, I'll Remember, curated by Janet Dees.

  
  Deru Kugi Wa Utareru is a Japanese proverb which can be translated as "The nail that sticks up the farthest takes the most pounding." When I came across this saying, it helped to explain how 120,313 people of Japanese ancestry, 2/3 of whom were American citizens, could so obediently submit to being incarcerated during WWII. The proverb and its translation wrap around the room. The walls are wallpapered with copies of letters from my maternal grandfather and documents of testimony by former internees given before congress. Stippled into the walls is a grid of 120.313 holes, one for each person interned. Rusted nails are pounded into the grid, forming a large American flag on the main wall. The remaining nails would fill the walls. Visitors are encouraged to add nails to the wall in memory of or to honor those who were incarcerated.

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  Acid

  Matthew Avignone
  

  Matthew Avignone
  "Acid" from the There's Just No Telling series, 2011
  Dimensions Variable. Archival Pigment Print.

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  Aldi's Mom

  Matthew Avignone
  

  Matthew Avignone
  "Aldi's Mom" from the Stranger Than Family series, 2010
  24"x24" Archival Pigment Print

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  Dad and The Boys

  Matthew Avignone
  

  Matthew Avignone
  "Dad and The Boys" from the Stranger Than Family series, 2010
  24"x24" Archival Pigment Print

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  Eric, Halloween

  Matthew Avignone
  

  Matthew Avignone
  "Eric, Halloween" from the Stranger Than Family series, 2010
  40"x40" Archival Pigment Print