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Artist: Alissa Ohashi (Columbus, Ohio)
NOT FOR SALE. This work is part of the exhibition and is not available for purchase.
Year: 2026 | Medium: digital and archival photography, documentation from the Department of Justice, hand stitching (sashiko) | Dimensions: 27x29" inches | Display: Wall-hung (2D)
Artist Statement
re-present explores collage as an act of resistance against historical erasure. The work reconstructs an earlier installation that once existed as a dispersed, large-scale photomontage into a single integrated collage, bringing together photographs from my family archive with images from the National Archives documenting the Japanese American incarceration during World War II. What was once fragmented becomes unified, asserting that memory becomes coherent through relation rather than separation.
Inspired by the Japanese textile traditions of boro and sashiko, the work approaches repair as both a material process and a political gesture. Layers of photographs, typed text, and visible stitching refuse seamlessness; instead, they make the labor of mending visible. Each image, word, and thread contributes to a larger structure that binds personal memory to collective history while acknowledging the fractures that remain.
In this work, cutting, layering, and stitching become acts of reclaiming agency over inherited stories that have been silenced, displaced, or overlooked. The work resists historical erasure by insisting that personal and collective histories cannot be separated.
re-present transforms fractured history into a site of connection. Through the integration of image, text, and stitch, the work proposes repair as an ongoing practice of remembrance, resilience, and reimagining the past to shape a more honest and connected future.
About the Artist
Alissa Ohashi is a visual artist who explores ideas through various mediums including photography, collage, sculpture, performance, and installation. In addition to her studio practice, Ohashi facilitates workshops at the intersection of art, psychology, and esoteric traditions, creating spaces and conditions for art to exist as a form of inquiry.
She has recently served as Arts in the Parks Coordinator with the Ohio Department of Natural Resources and the Ohio Arts Council, where she developed statewide public art programming, and currently serves as a member of the board with the Jung Association of Central Ohio.
Ohashi holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from Columbus College of Art & Design and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Strategic Communication from Ohio State University, and has recently received a graduate certificate for Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute. She is a 2025 Greater Columbus Arts Council Artist Projects grant recipient and has exhibited her work nationally and internationally.
www.alissaohashiart.com
Pulp Stiction: Collage as an Act of Resistance. Hopkins Hall Gallery, OSU, Oct 26 to Dec 11, 2026.
Artist: Alissa Ohashi (Columbus, Ohio)
NOT FOR SALE. This work is part of the exhibition and is not available for purchase.
Year: 2026 | Medium: digital and archival photography, documentation from the Department of Justice, hand stitching (sashiko) | Dimensions: 27x29" inches | Display: Wall-hung (2D)
Artist Statement
re-present explores collage as an act of resistance against historical erasure. The work reconstructs an earlier installation that once existed as a dispersed, large-scale photomontage into a single integrated collage, bringing together photographs from my family archive with images from the National Archives documenting the Japanese American incarceration during World War II. What was once fragmented becomes unified, asserting that memory becomes coherent through relation rather than separation.
Inspired by the Japanese textile traditions of boro and sashiko, the work approaches repair as both a material process and a political gesture. Layers of photographs, typed text, and visible stitching refuse seamlessness; instead, they make the labor of mending visible. Each image, word, and thread contributes to a larger structure that binds personal memory to collective history while acknowledging the fractures that remain.
In this work, cutting, layering, and stitching become acts of reclaiming agency over inherited stories that have been silenced, displaced, or overlooked. The work resists historical erasure by insisting that personal and collective histories cannot be separated.
re-present transforms fractured history into a site of connection. Through the integration of image, text, and stitch, the work proposes repair as an ongoing practice of remembrance, resilience, and reimagining the past to shape a more honest and connected future.
About the Artist
Alissa Ohashi is a visual artist who explores ideas through various mediums including photography, collage, sculpture, performance, and installation. In addition to her studio practice, Ohashi facilitates workshops at the intersection of art, psychology, and esoteric traditions, creating spaces and conditions for art to exist as a form of inquiry.
She has recently served as Arts in the Parks Coordinator with the Ohio Department of Natural Resources and the Ohio Arts Council, where she developed statewide public art programming, and currently serves as a member of the board with the Jung Association of Central Ohio.
Ohashi holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from Columbus College of Art & Design and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Strategic Communication from Ohio State University, and has recently received a graduate certificate for Depth Psychology from Pacifica Graduate Institute. She is a 2025 Greater Columbus Arts Council Artist Projects grant recipient and has exhibited her work nationally and internationally.
www.alissaohashiart.com
Pulp Stiction: Collage as an Act of Resistance. Hopkins Hall Gallery, OSU, Oct 26 to Dec 11, 2026.