Kara Tanaka

Dissolver: The Filthy Detritus of Transmigration, 2008
acrylic, aluminum, fiberglass, motor, wood
149 x 84 x 84 in.

Detail of Dissolver: The Filthy Detritus of Transmigration

Pining Wind (Fragmented on the Night Sea of Eternity), 2008 (still from video)
orbital satellite body, stupa, video

Crushed by the Hammer of the Sun, 2008
mechanical sculpture, silk skirt
91 x 84 x 84 in.

I am a Vessel in the Void (Between Charon and the Moon), 2006
glass, light, paper, poplar
82 x 50 x 45 in.

Detail of I am a Vessel in the Void (Between Charon and the Moon)

Kara Tanaka is a Los Angeles-based artist. Tanaka received her MFA from the California Institute of the Arts in 2008, BA from the University of California, Irvine in 2005, and a Postgraduate Diploma from Goldsmiths College, University of London in 2006. Recent exhibitions include Mad Amour, a two-person show with Marco Rios at Simon Preston Gallery, New York. Her work has been included in numerous group exhibitions both nationally and internationally and California Biennial (CB08) at the Orange County Museum of Art in Newport Beach.

Tanaka's work was included in A Universe We Can Believe In at the Tecoah Bruce Gallery in the Oliver Art Centre, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA - curated by David Huff, Jackie Im and Josephine Zarkovich.

Tanaka will also premiere a new collaboration with Marco Rios at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in March, titled Death's Boutique.