Sarah Fukami
Sarah Fukami was born and raised in Denver, Colorado. She describes her art and career up to this point:
Sarah Fukami was born and raised in Denver, Colorado. She describes her art and career up to this point:
“My current work
centers around the nature of identity, particularly that of the immigrant. By
utilizing layering, whether subtle or striking, figurative or abstract, I am
able to separate the facets of a person or an idea. I dissect and rearrange
these fragments in a way that the viewer can carefully analyze or step back and
see a larger entity. I am primarily a painter and printmaker, and am currently
exploring the use of Plexiglas in my work as a way to physically and visually
delineate layers of identity. This work is inspired by my family’s history, my
great grandfather immigrated to the United States from Japan in the early
1900s. I thought that the identity crisis that Japanese Americans faced when
forced into internment camps in the 1940s was especially intriguing in terms of
identity formation and maintenance, having to choose between being Japanese or
American. I hope to continue to address issues of changing identity through
generations and eventually my own experience of multicultural identity, as I am
Japanese, Italian, and Polish. I am now a senior in the Bachelor of Fine Arts,
and I hope to attend graduate school and teach in the future.”
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