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The Spaces Between Some Moments by Dean Terasaki
Art Intersection proudly presents an exhibition of photomontages by artist Dean Terasaki. The Spaces Between Some Moments is an exhibit selected from Dean Terasaki’s inventive photomontage work created over the last thirty-five years. Terasaki has repeatedly asked the questions: what is revealed in the collision between two different photographic moments? What does it mean that one photograph reminds us of another photograph or image, especially one that is not-obviously related?
Terasaki’s merging of photographic moments is a metaphor for the way that the experience of one photograph somehow connects to all the other photographs a viewer has ever seen as well as the hopes, dreams, and fears held as images in that viewer’s memories. For over 40 years, Terasaki has created narrative work about his family, community, and immigration, as well as the symbols and tropes around Asian American culture.
Dean Terasaki is sansei, a third-generation Japanese American. The discovery of his father’s 442nd Regiment, WWII snapshots and memorabilia sparked his lifelong exploration of photography, memory, and the intersection of race and culture in society. As a young person searching for a future, Dean hopped freight trains, drove taxicabs, and realized that he seemed to carry a camera everywhere. Dean earned a BFA from the University of Colorado (1978) and an MFA in photography from Arizona State University (1985). After a brief move to New York City, he returned to Phoenix where, for 33 years, he taught photography and digital imaging at Glendale Community College. Dean’s one-person exhibitions include shows at ASU’s Northlight Gallery, the Phoenix Public Library, the Print Center in Philadelphia, Phoenix’s Modified Arts, and Phoenix College’s art department gallery. A selection of his series, Veiled Inscriptions, was recently published by Fraction Magazine (issue 177), a well-known online quarterly. Dean is a member of the Eye Lounge Collective and currently resides in Phoenix with his wife, Teri, and their new puppy.