"Experiences of Passage: The Paintings of Yun Gee and Li-lan" Exhibition
Jason McCoy, Inc. (Midtown)
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Yun Gee (1906-1963) is widely considered one of the key figures in Asian American Modernism. He was born and raised in Chu village near Canton, China, before immigrating to San Francisco in 1921. He spent much of his life between Paris and the United States, in particular New York City, where he settled at the end of his life. Li-lan was born to Yun Gee and Helen Wimmer Gee in New York State, where she still lives and works. She has spent long periods in Japan and China. Both father and daughter exemplify the human desire to live and work in freedom without the restrictions of national identity. By fusing Eastern and Western influences into unique visual languages, their works imply that the openness to different cultures is an existential necessity. As artists who have embraced multinational, multi-cultural, and multiracial experiences, Yun Gee and Li-lan have lent inspirational voices to their experiences, which tells of the beauties and also pains that such a complex passage may entail.