

Anthony Park Kascak
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Anthony Park Kascak (he/him) is a first generation Korean-American with a BFA in Art Practices and BA in Psychology from the University of Colorado Boulder, and an MFA from the University of Arkansas. He has attended residencies and exhibited work in Germany, China, South Korea, and around the United States.
Publications
Yoon-Ramirez, I. (2021). Walking-Sensing as a decolonial art and pedagogical practice. International Journal of Education through Art, 17(1), 115-133.
Personal Statement
At the core of my studio practice I explore hwa 화 and its connection to my disorientation of cultural hybridity. In Korean, hwa has a multitude of meanings ranging from flower, fire, anger, growing, or becoming. Growing up I played hwatu (화투, flower cards) with my mother to divine our fortune regarding love, money, or who would visit. As soon as she finished reading our fortune that predicted a visit from a guest, the doorbell would ring. Despite these magical moments, my mother rejected her Korean identity in favor of adopting a more Americanized life. In an effort to work through cultural assimilation, I reimagine the context of hwa and hwatu through a lens of personal narrative—drawing from experiences of my upbringing, queerness, intimate relationships, and research of Korean history and reconstructing them into painted and relief-carved ceramic tiles and objects.