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Rica Takashima: 
        Art, Exhibitions, Manga, and Projects

 


Dual gender, Male, Female and Non-gender 

Peekaboo-kuns with Kimono outfits. 

Boogie On The Boulevard, 165th street and 

Grand Concourse, Bronx 2015



A “PeekaBoo-kun” is a cutout board, which is carved 

and painted to represent humans, animals and objects at actual size, 

with a hole where people’s faces can show through. 


 

Amabie is a legendary Japanese monster.


It said 'If disease spreads, draw a picture of me and show the picture of me to those who fall ill

and they will be cured.'


Afterward, it returned to the sea.





 
 
 

details: 'the long drawing', 2020

 
 

This is a spot introducing Rica Takashima's  Manga book Rica 'tte Kanji (Tokyo Love), story about a lesbian couple and their LGBT friends in Tokyo. The book was named as one of Top 10 Graphic novels in 2012 in Itarian WIRED, and Best Manga by San Diego Comic Con and Otaku USA in 2013. 

 
 
 
 

PeekaBoo-Kuns on a bus

 

PeekaBoo-Kuns in Tokyo

 

gender and outfit | Instant gender | Manga sculpture | Aliens in NY | seven aliens

 

Rica in High School

 
 

Rica Takashima and some of her published Manga







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Links of Rica’s Et Cetera

            Manga/Anime drawing

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Links of Rica’s Et Cetera

Manga/Anime drawing

https://www.pinterest.jp/ricaspopart/

https://www.instagram.com/ricatakashima/

https://www.facebook.com/RicaTPopArtPaintingsDrawings/

Rica ‘tte Kanji !?  old ver. e-book PDF

https://www.yuricon.com/yuriconalc/RTKO/files/inc/1218031951.pdf

Manga Sculpture at Randall’s Island   

https://randallsisland.org/flow-15/flow-15-rica-takashima/

Participatory art project

・Aliens in New York art project
https://aliensnewyork.wixsite.com/mysite

https://www.facebook.com/Aliens-in-New-York-art-project-300219990107200/

https://www.facebook.com/Peekaboo-Art-Project-131699606919192

Project Report Manga

http://www.aozoraart.com/dl/AliensinNY2013report_01.pdf

http://www.aozoraart.com/pdf/AliensNY_report2014.pdf

http://www.aozoraart.com/pdf/AliensNY_report2015.pdf

http://www.aozoraart.com/pdf/AliensinNY_report2016.pdf

Old website (1980s-2015ish)

http://AozoraArt.com

http://www.aozoraart.com/rica/rt_illust_e.html

Twitter

https://twitter.com/AliensNewYork

https://twitter.com/RicaTakashima

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rica_%27tte_Kanji!%3F

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rica_Takashima

NYFA Current

・Aliens in New York art project
https://current.nyfa.org/post/126347857743/rica-takashima-aliens-and-other-extraterrestrial
・One Stop Family Pop Up
https://current.nyfa.org/post/187168306363/conversations-rica-takashima-and-christine?fbclid=IwAR349KMz0ULRq4nVhF5S7V5G6Lg4ClQp-6YujRHg1JXMxNMqG51m8wSWj6E

NYFA Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=74&v=jF11TKclY1w

OMG, that video was about 6min long and had more details about other NYFA artists including my work.

Now it is less half-long and I appeared just a second.

Social practice art project

・One Stop Family Pop Up

https://1stopfamily.blogspot.com

・Ramp Project NYC (StopGap NYC) on going

https://therampprojectnyc.blogspot.com