Exhibit Title: "Crashing the Gate: Photographic Works by Diane Tani" Date: Feb. 25-April 1 Where: C.N. Gorman Museum 1316 Hart Hall University of California, Davis Hours: Noon to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and by appointment Artist Reception: 1-3 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 26 Artist Lecture: 3-4 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 26 Artist: Diane Tani San Francisco artist Diane Tani will exhibit black-and-white and color photography in her first one-woman show, "Crashing the Gate." The exhibit examines issues that are a part of Tani's Asian American identity and experiences. She borrowed the title of the exhibit from the British Asian writer Timothy Mo, who wrote, "But in the land of promise he felt more rather than less a foreigner; it made him feel like a gatecrasher who stayed too long and been identified." Tani, born to a Japanese-American father and Chinese-American mother, uses family snapshots, appropriated photographs and text to examine the complex environment of American and Asian American identity. Tani will exhibit her color photographs of poster images and archival photographs from Angel Island with text commenting on Asian American history and the development of Asian American representation. Tani will also exhibit her series of black-and-white photographs and graphics that rely on family photographs to address issues of identity on a very personal level. In addition, she will exhibit photographs commissioned by Liz Claiborne for a domestic violence project titled "Women's Work." Tani will give a slide lecture on her work at 3 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 26, during her museum reception. The public is invited to bring light-colored T-shirts to be printed with a photo-silkscreen of Tani's work, for a small donation. Tani is an active member of the Asian American Women Artists' Association as well as a board member for San Francisco Camerawork and a volunteer for the Asian Women's Shelter in San Francisco. She is a co-founder of Visibility Press, a publication of contemporary American art. Tani is the past recipient of the Eureka Fellowship Award funded by the Fleishacker Foundation. Her work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. She received her undergraduate degree from San Francisco State University and her master's in art from the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. The C.N. Gorman Museum is part of the Native American studies department at UC Davis. The museum was named in honor of Carl Nelson Gorman, a former Native American studies faculty member, artist and advocate of Native American art.