Jaime Scholnick

Jaime Scholnick

  • REVEAL/REVEAL @ Shatto Gallery L.A.
  • "Ukiyo-e in Play" Tokyo National Museum
  • I LOVE DEI series
  • Marshlands
  • Layered Histories Boyle Heights: LAC+USC Restorative Care Village
  • Protest, noun @Torrance Art Museum Jan 19-March 9, 2019
  • Knotting works
  • Our Ottoman Empire
  • LAYERED HISTORIES AT LAX TERMINAL ONE
  • K LINE_ Expo/Crenshaw Station Commission
  • 52 Days Series (formerly Gaza, Mowing the Lawn)
  • Max Blumenthal at CB1 Gallery
  • Redesigned, Repurposed, Re-everythinged
  • LAX Installation: Artfacts Series: Black, White and Flo Red
  • Artifacts
  • Chuckles Series
  • John Wayne Series
  • Hello Kitty Gets A Mouth
  • Biography
  • CV
  • Bibliography
  • Links
  • Contact
  • Art, the Crenshaw/LAX line and the Stories we Don't Tell at Train Stations
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KUCHISAKE-ONNA
2025
upholstery fabric swatches, denim, acrylic paint, rhinestones, fabric trims, sequin trim, pvc pipe
64” x 18” x 18”

Inspired by a famous Japanese Urban legend about a once beautiful woman who was murdered by her (supposedly jealous, Samurai) husband who slit her throat. She wanders alone at night asking people "Watashi, kirei?" (Am I beautiful?). If you say “No” she kills you immediately. Identity in Japanese culture is a complex subject. Ideas of beauty compound people's attitudes of themselves.

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