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IROZEALB (IONA ROZEAL BROWN) (1966 - )
Untitled II (Male)
.
Color screenprint on wove paper, 2003. 883x692 mm; 34
3
/
4
x27
1
/
4
inches, full margins. Signed and
numbered 17/35 in pencil, lower margin.
iROZEALb (Iona Rozeal Brown) is best known for her clever merging of the imagery of Japanese
ukiyo-e
prints and American hip-hop culture. She first became interested in Japanese visual culture
after learning about
ganguro
, a phenomenon popular during the 1990s in which Japanese 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 fromYale University in 2002. Both a visual
artist and DJ, who has lived inTokyo andYokohama, Brown currently lives and works inWashington,
DC. Her paintings and prints have been exhibited widely, including a solo exhibition in Cleveland’s
Museum of Contemporary Art in 2010, and as part of
Thirty Americans
, the national touring
exhibiton of the Rubell Family Collection.
[3,000/5,000]
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