Original Photo & Reappropriated Screen Capture Credit: Adam Farcus
Intending to collect images of artwork, the website wallpart.com inadvertently stole this photo of me from an online interview I did with the artist-run space, Make Space (2010-2016). This is a screen capture of the mock up from the wallpart.com site of what the print would look like if you bought it and hung it over your orange couch.
Artist Statement
My work addresses asymmetries of power in spaces of interaction. As I move among materials and processes, I am invested in creating work that has a strong performative dimension: it may be produced in a social exchange or may exist as a potentiality, proposing an imagined interaction without necessitating its enactment. Here, displacement and travel serve as points of departure (and also arrival) as I seek an emotional resonance for my work that lands somewhere between a knowing smile and a side-eye smirk.
Biography
Allison Yasukawa (MFA, University of Illinois at Chicago) is an interdisciplinary visual artist based in Chicago, Illinois, USA. Working in sculpture, video, sound, drawing, and performance, Allison explores themes of social encounter, the physical body, and the politics and performance of identity. She has exhibited nationally and internationally at spaces including the American University Museum (Washington D.C.), Gallery 400 (Chicago), High Desert Test Sites (Joshua Tree, CA), and Dak'Art OFF (Saint-Louis,Senegal) and has presented on her work at Hunan Normal University (Changsha, China); Addis Ababa University (Addis Ababa, Ethiopia; and Performance Studies international #16 (Toronto, Canada). In addition to an MFA, Allison holds an MA in TESOL/Applied Linguistics. She specializes in the teaching of English for Art and Design for multilingual speakers and is the Director of English for International Students at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.