In Personal References, Gayle Tanaka provides a set of documents tracking her passage through time, mapping her inner and outer landscapes, following her and her family from immigration to internment, from cultural assimilation to final interment.
 
Tanaka¹s digital prints, sculptural assemblies and personal artifacts refer to intersections of the individual with all the usual larger forces: family, the culture, and time‹where what is future flows into the present, vanishing into the past‹as we all do. The work moves from the individual into the family, through the culture and finally, into the invisible.
 
Gayle Tanaka has exhibited nationally, including shows at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and the Jewish Museum in San Francisco, the Chicago Cultural Center and the Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art and the Center for Photography in New York. She currently has a studio at the Snug Harbor Cultural Center on Staten Island, New York.
 
For further information or visuals, please contact Lucy Terzis at (212) 367-8994, fax (212) 367-8984, or email soho20@earthlink.net.