LA TIMES/Critics Choices!

The LA Times seems to like FINDING CHINATOWN! In the 'Critics' Choices" listing in the "Arts & Books/The Guide" this Sunday. Only this week left as FINDING CHINATOWN closes at Craig Krull Gallery on Saturday, 3 September. http://www.craigkrullgallery.com/Exhibition/Current.html

FINDING CHINATOWN, Review in LA Times!

Today online and tomorrow in the print edition, Los Angeles Times art critic, Sharon Mizota, reviews my exhibition of 21 photographs from my decade-long series, FINDING CHINATOWN.

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2011/08/art-review-sara-jane-boyers-at-craig-krull-gallery.html

A dwindling past/Moving On

Coincidentally after last week's post on the Central Valley in California, from today's (Monday, August 1, 2011) Los Angeles Times about the Fresno Chinatown, a neighborhood of historic Chinese and Japanese residence, reduced to a couple of buildings and now, one is being lost.. http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-temple-20110801,0,3701986.story

A few more pics from Fresno in 2009

Sonia Mak, Founding Associate Curator of the Chinese American Museum in Los Angeles and now an independent curator, was discussing this on Saturday early into the opening of my FINDING CHINATOWN exhibit. In an almost 200 year history, what IS the significance and the purpose of the various Chinatowns? Some, as LA's current Chinatown, also going through major change, were built specifically by those of Chinese origin for trade and commerce, the first time they could control their own direction after the disastrous impact of the Chinese Exclusion Act. Others were partially self-imposed ghettos originally for safety from anti-Asian sentiment.

Perhaps more after Sonia's and John Jung's walk-through of FINDING CHINATOWN this coming Saturday, August 6th at 5pm, organized by the Chinese Historical Society of Southern California (CHSSC)