After being featured at the New Orleans Photo Alliance (in celebration of winning the 2017 Clarence John Laughlin Award), at the Rhode Island Center for Photographic Arts, and at Center for Photographic Arts’ State of the Art exhibition at the R. Blitzer Gallery in Santa Cruz, Jerry Takigawa’s Balancing Cultures exhibition will open at the Alvarado Gallery, in the Monterey Conference Center, on November 30th.

Balancing Cultures examines the arc of Takigawa’s early family history with a focus on their incarceration in the American WWII concentration camps. Initially an identity project in search of details to a 40-year silence surrounding the camps, this series grew to inspire conversations about racism, hysteria, and economic exploitation—resonating with current events and politics.

Jerry Takigawa is an independent photographer, designer, and writer. He received the Imogen Cunningham Award in 1982, the Clarence J. Laughlin Award in 2017, and CENTER Santa Fe’s Curator’s Choice Award in 2018. His work is in the permanent collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Brooklyn Museum, the Crocker Art Museum, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, and the Library of Congress.

Reception for the artist: November 30, 2018, 5:30 – 7:00 pm
Exhibition: November 30, 2018 to February 3, 2019
Alvarado Gallery: 2nd Floor, Monterey Conference Center,
1 Portola Plaza, Monterey, CA, 93940
Gallery hours: 8:30 – 4:30 pm, Monday through Friday

Sponsored by the City of Monterey Museums and Cultural Arts Commission and the Monterey Conference Center.