Jerry Lim and Maia Lynch

Title: Camp Furusato Archive

Work Description: Camp Furusato Archive is a project by Maia Lynch and Jerry Lim. Between 1971 to 1997 several hundred Japanese American children from mostly New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut attended Lynch's parents' camp in the Catskills. "It was the core of my parents' life as well as mine. I once dreamt that my father (who was a former Jesuit priest) held mass from the third story window of the main building and in attendance was only my mother and me - it had this type of symbolism in my home. I wanted to make public the record of the camp, but also to share this mythic weight of the landscape and the community that temporarily inhabited and transformed it."

Bio:
Maia Lynch (born 1974, Philadelphia, PA) is a Japanese American artist. People, landscape, and the sense of place and no place are part of her language of line and form. Her own personal history and the collective histories of her communities, in part determined by conditions of geography, migration, sacrifice, survival, and undoubtedly, the absurd, serve as the underpinnings to her work. Lynch’s work has been featured in Asia Art Pacific, Art News and had a solo exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 2018.

Jerry Lim (b. 1975, Los Angeles, CA) is an artist that works with photography, text, sound and video. He is a recent recipient of the Lightwork Grant in Photography and is an En Foco Fellowship awardee. Lim is also a guitarist and improviser having performed at venues such as Roulette, The Stone and Carnegie Hall. He has played with legendary saxophonist Joe McPhee, kayagum master Sang-Won Park, sound artist Sean Meehan, Martha Colburn, among others.

Lynch and Lim live together with their daughter in Brooklyn, NY.

Artist’s Websites:
maialynch.com
jerrylim.com

Work Location: Tulsa People Magazine, June 2020, p. 33