Interviewee

Gabriel Bizen Akigawa

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

5-11-2012

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Joe Ondrey interview with Chicago sculptor and installation artist Gabriel Bizen Akigawa.

Abstract

Artist Bio: Gabriel Bizen Akagawa is the Assistant Director of Academic Advising and recently former Academic Advisor in the Office of Student Affairs and Assistant Adjunct Professor in the Sculpture department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He exhibits regularly as a Chicago-based artist. He has been awarded Artist-in-Residencies at the Alternator Gallery for Contemporary Art in Kelowna, British Columbia, at Crabtree Farm in Lake Bluff, Illinois, and at Ox-Bow in Saugatuck, Michigan. His curatorial projects include an ongoing and changing series he initiated in 2005 called “Faketure” (fake nature), which lead to founding the Faketure Consortium of Artists. He situates his art and curatorial practices as medicinal activities to investigate humanity's complex relationship with nature.

Artist Bio taken from http://www.gabrielakagawa.com/home/biography

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