Denver Art Society

Margaret Kasahara: Chibichan Cowgirl

Margaret Kasahara – Chibichan Cowgirl – Oil on Canvas

(from the press release)

Margaret Kasahara’s “Role Models” explores themes of identity and disparate cultures as an Asian American of Japanese descent, that identity crosses two disparate cultures. Combining memory and autobiographical experiences, she creates visual dialogs expressing everyday life. Appropriating cultural symbols and the traditional iconography of Japan and America, she places them in a personal and contemporary context. . “ I approach my subject matter seriously, yet with a wink and a light heart, and in the broader cultural landscape, there weren’t many Asian American women role models growing up. Depictions of Asians in film and television were mostly two-dimensional if and when they existed at all.”

Kasahara received a BFA degree from the Kansas City Art Institute. She has exhibited her artwork at the Berkshire Museum in Pittsfield, MA, the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, the Denver Art Museum, the Foothills Art Center in Golden , Colorado, the Gallery of Contemporary Art at the University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, the Sangre de Cristo Arts Center, and the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles, California.

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