LENORE CHINN, lenorechinn.com
Photo: Mia Nakano, ©Visibility Project https://www.visibilityproject.org/
I am a San Francisco based artist who focuses on the depiction of a wide spectrum of people in all their diversity and color.
Portraiture is at the core of my visual art practice whether it is painting or photography – both are employed in my creative process.
A moment in time spontaneously captured by my digital bridge camera, transmitted to acrylic on canvas, conveyed in modern archival print or Shared on Facebook, these images document everyday life.
As a body of work they are visual narratives that constitute an art history largely hidden from the public’s perception of society and our particular collective experience.
My focus as a photographer is capturing images and documenting cultural landscapes from a painter’s point of view.
“Quite a few years ago I was with Flo Oy Wong and family during a 2000 opening of her art exhibit, made in usa: Angel Island Shhh at the Angel Island Immigration Station.
I couldn’t find any image files from that far back. But today I came across a set I had taken years later on the occasion of a dedication there on July 23, 2011. Again, I was there with Flo and family and quite a few notables from our Chinese American community, like Buck Gee, Board President of AIISF, musician Frances Wong and photographer Frank Jang. Historian Judy Yung, who died last month, was in attendance.”
— LENORE CHINN, January 17, 2021
Photo: Lenore Chinn. Angel Island Immigration Station Dedication Ceremony for The Immigrant Heritage Wall. July 23, 2011.
Photo: Lenore Chinn. Angel Island Immigration Station Dedication Ceremony for The Immigrant Heritage Wall. July 23, 2011.
Photo: Lenore Chinn. Angel Island Immigration Station Dedication Ceremony for The Immigrant Heritage Wall. July 23, 2011.