Gallery 456 in Chinese-American Arts Council - Past Events
Below is a list of all past events for Gallery 456 in Chinese-American Arts Council. Current and upcoming events, as well as other details, are available on the venue's page.
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Charlie Pang “Trace of the Times”
Gallery 456 presents Trace of the Times, a solo exhibition of Charlie Pang’s recent works. Charlie Pang’s recent work examines the collision of Chinese and Western cultures and societies. His works...More »
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Rachel Hsu “Heart in My Mouth”
Chinese American Arts Council/Gallery 456 presents Heart in My Mouth, a solo exhibition by Rachel Hsu. Rachel Hsu’s solo exhibition, Heart in My Mouth, attends to the contradictions inherent in marginalized...More »
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Oxana Kovalchuk “Making Fools Pray to God”
Chinese American Arts Council/Gallery 456 presents Making Fools Pray to God, a solo exhibition by Oxana Kovalchuk, curated by Kyoko Sato. The Russian Icon can be traced back to 988 A.D. marking the...More »
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Zhen Guo “Muted Landscape”
Gallery 456 presents Muted Landscape, a solo exhibition by Zhen Guo, curated by Kimberly Reinagel. Muted Landscape is comprised of artworks by Guo that redefine traditional Chinese Landscape Ink Paintings...More »
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Zelene Jiang Schlosberg “Flâneur Redux”
Gallery 456 presents Flâneur Redux, a solo exhibition by Zelene Jiang Schlosberg. Nous sommes tous des flâneurs. After lockdowns and quarantines, the ability to cast about city streets with no clear...More »
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Xiaojing Yan “Pines, Needles, Mushrooms, Ink, Paint: A Botanical Rhapsody”
Gallery 456 presents Xiaojing Yan’s first New York solo exhibition Pines, Needles, Mushrooms, Ink, Paint: A Botanical Rhapsody. Ghostly landscapes wavering on silk, sculpture, and abstract paintings make...More »
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Nina Kuo “Déjà Vu Escapes”
Gallery 456 presents DÉJÀ VU ESCAPES, a solo exhibition of recent body of work by artist Nina Kuo. Relaying on her research into her multicultural experiences, the artist explores the border between past...More »
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“What Really Defines Us? …It’s Complicated” Exhibition
Gallery 456 presents an exhibition of recent works by Patricia Cazorla, Nancy Saleme, and Cheryl Wing-Zi Wong in the forms of sculptures, installations, and 2D works. The exhibition features recent...More »
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Kuo-Heng Huang “Exhausted Picture”
Chinese American Arts Council / Gallery 456 presents Exhausted Picture, the second solo exhibition of Taiwan-born Brooklyn-based artist Kuo-Heng Huang in New York. Human beings haven’t known where...More »
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Szu-Wei Ho “Beginning”
Chinese American Arts Council / Gallery 456 presents Beginning, the second solo exhibition of Taiwan-born Brooklyn-based artist Szu-Wei Ho in New York. Everything seems to begin with the Robin’s egg....More »
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Shida Kuo Exhibition
Chinese American Arts Council / Gallery 456 presents SHIDA KUO, a solo exhibition of artist Shida KUO in New York. The exhibition will showcase KUO’s new body of work including 4 paintings, 9 ceramic sculptures,...More »
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Pohan Wu “Intimation”
Chinese America Arts Council / Gallery 456 present Pohan Wu: Intimation, the first solo exhibition of Taiwanese-Canadian artist Pohan Wu in New York. The exhibition will showcase a site-specific installation...More »
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LYNX “Daily Discipline”
Chinese America Arts Council / Gallery 456 presents LYNX: Daily Discipline, the first solo exhibition of Vietnamese-American artist Lynx Nguyen in New York. Artist on the Exhibition Daily Discipline...More »
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A-CHAN/Ayumi Furuta “Lighting Store”
Chinese America Arts Council / Gallery 456 presents Lighting Store, a solo exhibition by artist A-CHAN/Ayumi Furuta in New York. The exhibition will showcase a series of 20 black and white photographs...More »
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Furen Dai “The Institute of Marriage”
Chinese America Arts Council / Gallery 456 presents The Institute of Marriage, the first solo exhibition by artist Furen Dai in New York. The exhibition showcases an installation of Dai’s progressing research...More »
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“Theater of Crossroads” Exhibition
Curated by Rui Tang Chinese America Arts Council / Gallery 456 presents Theater of Crossroads, the first solo exhibition by Beijing-based artist Yuanyuan Yang in New York. The exhibition showcases photographs...More »
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Zhen Guo “A Denied Existence”
Chinese American Arts Council / Gallery 456 presents an exhibition of “A Denied Existence” by artist Zhen Guo. “I use colorful cloth, expensive silk and humble linens to compose breasts to show women...More »
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Crystal W.M. Chan “I Am My Own Landscape”
“I am my own landscape, I watch myself journey Various, mobile, and alone.” - Fernando Pessoa In these lines by Pessoa, a Portuguese poet writing in the 1930s, he expresses a position and feeling...More »
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“Infinite Narratives” Exhibition
The Chinese American Arts Council (CAAC) and Gallery 456 present Infinite Narratives, an exhibition of works by the Tomato Grey artist collective with 6 artistic collaborators. Infinite Narratives is...More »
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“The Mind’s Movement” Exhibition
The Chinese American Arts Council (CAAC) and Gallery 456 presents The Mind’s Movement, an exhibition of works by Iceland-based artist Valgardur Gunnarsson and New York-based artist Ting Yih. The Mind’s...More »
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Musquiqui Chihying “Resistance is Futile”
SCREEN presents Resistance is Futile at 456 Gallery, an exhibition of installation works by Berlin- and Taipei-based artist Musquiqui Chihying (b. 1985). This is his first solo show in New York. Chihying’s...More »
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“Dawn” Exhibition
Chinese American Arts Council / Gallery 456 presents an exhibition of seven artists, curated by Lanlan NY. From curator: The idea of “Dawn” originated from my art education group on WeChat. The purpose...More »
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Yi-Kuan Lin “Bio-study Studio”
Chinese American Arts Council / Gallery 456 and InCube Arts are pleased to present Bio-study Studio, a solo exhibition by Yi-Kuan Lin. Yi-kuan Lin has always explored the relationship between nature...More »
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“Considerate Creations: Chameleons” Exhibition
Chinese American Arts Council / Gallery 456 and InCube Arts present Considerate Creations: Chameleons, an exhibition that brings together the work of five female artists: CHEN Hui-Chiao, HU Nung-Hsin,...More »
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Lin Sha “Lin Sha”
Exhibition Statement: In a career spanning nearly sixty years, contemporary ink artist Sha Lin (1940-2010) strove for innovation through a series of breakthroughs in developing his personal aesthetics...More »
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Kai Shen “Mercury”
Exhibition Statement: One Day, I really wanted to shoot portraits in the water. Because I was attracted by Howard Shatz’s underwater works. In order to catch the movement under water, I bought a fish...More »
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Ku Fu-Sheng “Life is Like A Dream”
Ku Fu-sheng was born in Shanghai, China in 1934. and his family moved to Taiwan in 1948 with his father, General Ku Chu-tung. After completing his formal art education at National Taiwan Normal University...More »
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“Vestigial Future” Exhibition
Curator: Bochun Hsiao It is with uncertainty that we look inward and observe the most mysterious parts of ourselves; the physical vestiges of the humans we once were that serve as a reminder of our...More »
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Ryota Sato, Tao Xian “Phantom Pains”
Phantom pain refers to a painful sensation caused by body parts that have been amputated. The limb is gone, but the pain is real. People who experience phantom pain are often reluctant to address this...More »
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Ting Yih “All The Ways In Which I Abuse Her”
Statement: In the 12th century Sufi poem The Conference of the Birds, a group of birds decide they need a king - which in Sufism means to seek God or truth. Upon realizing how difficult the journey will...More »
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Hsianglin Wang & Ming-Jer Kuo “A Fraction of Island”
Artist: Hsiang-Lin Wang Things i Lost More or less, we resist something just for no reason in childhood. Like being a picky eater, frightening by some wired taboo, and following ridiculous superstitions....More »
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Gahae Park Exhibition
Gahae Park uses simplifies patterns in meticulously cut relief drawings as a representation of the creative process underlying visual art, music and human life itself. She chooses to accept life’s rhythms...More »
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James Wong “Invasion of the Pods”
James Wong, a Chinese American self taught artist has been working non-stop for the past thirty years on his Future War marker drawings. This exhibition, James Wong: Invasion of the Pods features his recent...More »
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Chung Chak “Looking for Gold Mountain: Lost Chinatowns in the western United States”
The early Chinese immigrants in the late 1860’s provided cheap “coolie” laborers to build railroads. This influx of immigration continued rapidly until the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed in 1882. The...More »
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Yuki Ideguchi “Wave-Life and Death”
CAAC presents “Wave - Life and Death: Yuki Ideguchi”, curated by Kyoko Sato as a Program for Emerging Curators and Artists. This is an exhibition for 29-year-old Japanese artist Yuki Ideguchi, his first...More »
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“CAAC 40th Anniversary Show”
2015 is the 40th anniversary of Chinese American Art Council. To celebrate this meaningful moment, the Chinese American Art Council brings you the [CAAC 40 Anniversary Show]. Curated by Shiou ping Liao...More »
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Mary Ting “Compassion: For the Animals Great & Small”
COMPASSION: For the Animals Great & Small, an interdisciplinary project by artist Mary Ting. In response to the current plight of elephants, rhinos, tigers, bears and other animals due to poaching...More »
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Qionghui Zou “Born Again”
As one kind of the insects, cicadas have unique pattern of lifecycle, and the larva of cicada has to go through a miraculous ecdysis. I am awakened by the continuity and rebirth of its lifecycle and take...More »
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Sung-Chih Chen “Time After Time”
Sung-Chih Chen was born in Taiwan in 1978. Over the years, his works began with their concepts, and used the vocabulary of the materials themselves to present the emotional fragments often overlooked in...More »
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Will Pang “The Construction”
The Construction is a mixed media exhibition featured drawings and ceramics. The ceramics were derived from the drawings but did not repeat the drawings. The project is a poetic documentary of an unreal...More »
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Cynthia Lin “Transformation & Variation: Face . Book”
Cynthia Lin uses “people” as her creative transformation carrier in this solo exhibition, Transformation & Variation. The modern media is used as a tool to “measure” the multiple aspects of art. She...More »
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Szu-Wei Ho “Spending Time with Time”
Spending Time with Time, a solo exhibition of Szu-Wei Ho, includes two series of work by the artist. “The Islanders” is a series about the artist’s childhood memory, body, and identity. The other series...More »
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James Wang “Paintings”
The body of paintings that I am exhibiting comes from an inspiration in nature. I’ve always been interested in the element of WATER, and always wanted to make a body of work based on water. Two of my...More »
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Ming-Jen Hsu “The Absent Scenery”
The Absent Scenery – Despite how vividly and meticulously a scene is illustrated, it is lost indefinitely upon being perceived. The scenery sighted is transformed in the mind by how it was remembered over...More »
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Hsin-Yi Ho “100 Days”
Born in Taipei, educated in Paris, and currently living in New York City, Hsin-Yi HO received her diploma from École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2007, and has had exhibitions internationally...More »
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Liang-Pin Tsao “Shimmers in the Drawer”
The exhibition title, Shimmers in the Drawer, is by and large an euphemistic metaphor. The word “shimmers” alludes to the departed and bygones, while “drawer” refers to one’s mind. It is essentially about...More »
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Kuo-Heng Huang “Fairy Dust”
“I ponder the reason of the universe, gaze through the scope of camera lens, capture the other world when the seam leaks, and reveal imaginations beyond reality. Call it fantasy or nostalgia, either to...More »
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Wang Xu “What’s The Weather Like Today?”
Through his work, Wang Xu aims to train the viewer’s imagination, to change the viewer’s habits of mind, body, education, and culture. Materiality and medium are for Xu not only the space where he can...More »
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“The China Young Artist Invitational” Exhibition
“The China Young Artist Invitational Exhibition” as a young Chinese art expo, is a continuation of “The First China Young Artist Invitational Exhibition” which was held at Today Art Museum in Beijing during...More »
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I-Chen Kuo “Home-Less is More”
Taiwanese Artist KUO I-Chen was the youngest participant of Venice Biennale in 2005. He was invited to various important museums and biennales such as ZMK, Singapore Biennale, Sydney Biennale, Seoul International...More »
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“TTL” Group Show
TTL (Through the Lens) is a group of photography aficionados. On August 17, 2013, we made our debut at The Gallery of Amerasia Bank, New York, in Flushing. Our gaze focuses on the portraits, feature...More »
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Christina Zhou “The Young Artist Show”
The Young Artist Show” features oil paintings from Christina Zhou, a 16 year old from Hunter College High School in New York. The earliest paintings are from ages 7 to 10. The bright colors and expressive...More »
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Chiu You-Wen “Water Fairies”
For artist Yu-Wen Chiu, paper cutting is a means to express her emotions. Lighting, patterns, and rhythm weave an imaginative myth through the work, churning out stories about dreams, emotions, and perceptions...More »
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Shyu Ruey-Shiann “Unfinished Journey”
“Unfinished Journey” is a new “in-progress” exhibit at the 456 Gallery by SHYU Ruey-Shiann, who is known for his kinetic art. To SHYU Ruey-Shiann, journey has always been a matter of progression – starting...More »
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Tai Zhang "Jiao Jiao: A Portrait"
Jiao Jiao was Tai Zhang’s schoolmate growing up in Chongqing, China. He had a feminine identity since childhood, and as he grew up found that the call to become a woman become stronger. He began dancing...More »
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"In Loving Memory Pak-Hing Kan" Exhibition
Memorial Service and Retrospective Show to Celebrate the Life of Pak-Hing Pak-Hing Kan Art Grant is set up in memory of Pak-Hing and administered by Chinese American Art Counc il. It will be awarded...More »
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Raymond Fung "china in China"
The landscape of Hong Kong is characterized by its beautiful harbor flanked by more and more grand skyscrapers squeezing out the waters on the Hong Kong Island and Kowloon peninsula shores. It is an image...More »
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Shi Chao Yu Exhibition
Using concise line to express artistic freedom, discover beauty and create beauty.More »
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Lazaro Juan and Toym Leon Imao "Indiosyncracies"
The Philippines is a nation of contrasts whose history is carved by the ravages of colonialism and imperialist ambitions. It had established thriving trade and cultural exchange with the Middle East, South...More »
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Yang Chen "Vicissitudes: A Life Journey from China to the United States"
Exhibition Statement My work is derived from my thinking about the inescapable influence of the cultural and political conditions that shaped my personal history. Born in China in 1980s, I grew up...More »
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Jinsong Chen "Soul·Thought"
In this human-dominated world, what dominates us? Suppose time simply flowed in one direction at a constant speed. The nature of universe would be stable and linear. And yet the space, as we understand...More »
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Tang-Wei Hsu "Indescribable Scenes"
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Jianxia Liu "Non Abiding Mind"
Develop a mind which does not abide in anything. No attachment, no greed, no desire. A lotus flower blooms in the universal heart Mission and Goal statement My art is dedicated to expressing iconic...More »
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Pak-hing Kan "Disassembly"
The title of this exhibition is “ Disassembly”, which means I am going to take the pieces apart in order to show what is involved in the interior. These 14 pieces of ceramic art were all created in...More »
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Shen Wei "Almost Naked"
Shen Wei’s Almost Naked features portraits of people in America, was photographed during 2003 to 2008. The artist traveled intensively throughout the United States, looking for people who were willing...More »
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Yijun Liao "Memphis, Tennessee"
In 2005, my first adventure outside of China took me to Memphis, Tennessee, where I lived for three and a half years. I went to Memphis without the least idea of what it is like. I now think that I was...More »
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Kwok-Yee Tai "Line as Open Space"
Kwok-Yee Tai had rarely shown her work, instead she drew and painted constantly to improve her artistry. She had the ability to extract the essence of what she saw to create images of flowing lines and...More »
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Shih-Pao Lin "Dream Collection Project"
Exhibition Statement Dream Collection Project, is the latest work of New York based artist Shih-Pao Lin’s “ The Hart” series. Lin has been working on this “The Hart” series for over 20 years. The name...More »
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Wenjie Yang "Low City"
"Low City" is located in the center of Chongqing, one of the most important cities along the Yangtze River in southwestern mainland China. One street divided from the flourishing city center, Low City...More »
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“Stand-In Techniques” Exhibition
Since the 90s, towards the end of the last century, with the changes in the political atmosphere, the prevalence of the media and globalization, as well as the boom in telecommunications technology, video...More »
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Stephen Chan "The Wild West of China - A Photographic Journey Through the Desert of Xinjian"
On September 20, 2008, forty-five photographers from different countries reached Urumchi—the city that is the farthest from any ocean in the world. Led by Mr. Pang, the president of the Malaysian Camera...More »
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"Phase" Exhibition
相 (PHASE) brings together three Chinese photographers whose outside disciplines bring unique angles to their work: a floral designer, a journalist, and an actor, each with an interest in specific aspects...More »
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Chyna Wu "The Suffering Eye"
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"Congratulation" Group Exhibition
The Group Show "Congratulation" is presented by 11 outstanding artists and is curated by Alan Chow.More »
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Zeng Han "Cool Shanshui + Soul Stealer"
The series of Cool Shanshui is Zeng Han's way of observation and consideration to Chinese traditional landscape painting, at the same time the outcome of his observing and describing the contemporary "Shanshui"...More »
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Ming Fay "Out of Jungle:Two decades of studio Doodads 1990 to 2010"
Twenty years of Doodads included a collection with over 200 items from the studio, covering drawings, photos, studies, specimens, models and sculptural installations in the nature of a studio setting....More »
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"Ming Fay" Artist Talk and Panel Discussion
There will be an artist panel discussion on March 5, Friday, 6-9pm at Gallery 456 on the subject of “The Third Culture”. Ming Fay will host the panel with Art Critic Jonathan Goodman and renowned Chinese...More »
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Bo Wang "Heteroscapes"
Heteroscapes is a portrait of China’s contemporary urban spaces and landscapes in a period of intensified transition. Throughout the past 20 years of an economic boom, this transition has shifted the social...More »
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Charlotte Ghiorse "The Finer Things"
This is a work in progress mixing up ideas about what everyone wants: love, power, celebration, houses, cars, chandeliers, small children, candelabra, freedom, fighting racism, money, discovering gold,...More »
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"Reconsidering Identity" Exhibition
As President Obama confronts the legacies left by the previous administrations as well as deeply-rooted problems of race, class and ethnicity in American society, how will his unprecedented effort to promote...More »
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James Wong and Roberto Visani "War Toys/ Toy Wars"
The exhibition, War Toys/Toy Wars presents the color marker rendering of James Wong alongside the figurative cardboard constructions of Roberto Visani. Both artists use ordinary materials to explore the...More »
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Jack Huang Exhibition
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"Mythical Montage" Exhibition
In this artistic duet, Nina Kuo presents large-scale anachronistic painted scenes inspired by Chinese literati paintings and landscapes that composer and video artist Lorin Roser recaptures in single channel...More »
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"How Chinese" Reception and Discussion
"How Chinese," curated by Aileen June Wang and Eric Jiaju Lee, expands the current notion of contemporary Chinese art, defined by the most popular movements of Political Pop and Cynical Realism. The featured...More »
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"How Chinese: Expanding the Discourse on Chinese Contemporary Art" Exhibition
Expanding the Discourse on Chinese Contemporary Art, a group exhibition which is also participating in Asian Contemporary Art Week with a panel discussion and reception. Conceived jointly by art historian...More »
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"Asian Pacific Roots in the Big Apple" Exhibition
The collection of images by the photographers represents a pictorial and picturesque omission in America's discussion of what constitutes the American landscape and who belongs. In a city of immense and...More »
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"Frozen Evolutions: Images from Galapagos" Exhibition
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"Are You Chinese Enough?" Panel Discussion
Few times in the history of United States have we simultaneously held with such high hopes yet much trepidation as we have with the inauguration of Obama. It is evident that the future is uncertain, yet...More »
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Ting Yih "Selections from One Hundred Paintings: Not Here Not There, after Samuel Beckett"
"The plan was to just paint and withhold exegesis for future. Found these 2 by 2 foot already cut plywood at Home Depot. There is a lineage of square images from the Mandala to Ad Reinhard. The number...More »
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Skyler Chen "Republic of Norman: Chapter One Imitation of Life"
Those before us adapted to changes in technologies by soundly rejecting or embracing them. As technology changed the world around them, they changed their approach to the world - cause and effect - one...More »
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Youngju Yoon "Mind Works on Reality"
"This series was created to convey my interest in how our minds can become suppressed and in turn distort space and reality through our individual emotions. My work depicts a continuing study of figures...More »