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IROZEALB (IONA ROZEAL BROWN) (1966 - ) King Kata #3, Peel Out (after Yoshitoshi's "Incomparable Warriors: Woman Han Gaku").
Archival inkjet on Hahnemuhle German etching paper, 2009. 571x453 mm; 22 1/2x17 7/8 inches, full margins. Signed, titled, dated and numbered 34/50 in pencil, lower margin.
King Kata #3, Peel Out is a print based on All Falls Down, a series of paintings commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland. She created these paintings based in part on Japanese Ukiyo-e prints from the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College, in addition to her experiences in a residency with Cleveland area high school students. She created a narrative that explored how young women get thrown "off course" by the cultural chaos of contemporary society. The narrative that she wove formed an elaborate story filled with fantastical lands, dynamic characters, and engaging plots.
iROZEALb (Iona Rozeal Brown) is best known for her clever merging of the imagery of Japanese Ukiyo-e prints, American hip-hop culture, and science fiction. She first became interested in Japanese visual culture after learning about ganguro, a phenomenon popular in Japan during the 1990s in which girls darkened their skin and dyed their hair blond as a challenge to ideals of beauty. Brown earned a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and an MFA from Yale University in 2002. Both a visual artist and DJ, who has lived in Tokyo and Yokohama, Brown currently lives and works in Washington, DC.
