
01/16/2025
“One of the indelible images in ‘Pictures of Belonging,’ an exhibition of work by three female artists whose careers were impeded — but not snuffed out — by the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II, is Miné Okubo’s ‘Wind and Dust’ from 1943. In it, a family shield their faces, and each other, from a sandstorm, huddled in a tight mass of interlocking bodies. Behind them, the desert is punctuated by barracks, a landscape of depressing sameness. You get the sense that these vulnerable figures are being battered not just by the weather, but by the world itself.”
On today’s New York Times, Aruna D’Souza .flaneuse reviews “Pictures of Belongings: Miki Hayakawa, Hisako Hibi, Miné Okubo” curated by Dr. ShiPu Wang, currently on view at Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Okubo’s solo exhibition “PORTRAITS” is on view at SEIZAN Gallery through March 1, showcasing 11 works Okubo created in 1940’s.
MINE OKUBO: PORTRAITS
January 9 - March, 2025
SEIZAN Gallery
525 W 26th St. NYC