Lisa Kokin
Unearthing, Tales of a Nice Jewish Girl
July 24–August 30, 1992

“Throughout Kokin’s work are the themes of human suffering and intolerance towards groups of other people because those groups are somehow different from a mainstream. Unearthing challenges the viewer to consider the multifarious histories of racism through a collision of languages, the visual, the written, the implied. The work’s strength is not located entirely in the particular and the personal but also in its abilities to evoke the universal.” — M. MacKenzie