supporting apa arts

Under the Mistletoe: Art & Good Cheer
Kearny Street Workshop's annual holiday party & art auction

 

One-of-a-kind monoprints from the Static series will be available. Minimum bids start at 35% of the retail price.

 

Live and silent auction, ornament-making, music, more, all in a Julia Morgan-designed house overlooking the city. Auction featuring artwork by Kevin B. Chen, Derek Chung, Rob Dario, Glenn Fajardo, Gilda Gonzalez-Harger, Nancy Hom, Bob Hsiang, Cat Huang, Dino Ignacio, Rosemary Kim / Agent R, Robert Mizono, Goh Nakamura, Han Pham, Shizue Seigel, Thy Tran, Truong Tran, Jenifer Wofford and Christine Wong Yap, and hosted by Ali Wong.

Thursday, December 7th, 2006, 6-9 pm
Potrero Hill Neighborhood House, 953 De Haro (at 19th St.), San Francisco
$10
kearnystreet.org for more info

11/18: visual arts workshop

 

Lead a workshop on visual art in community organizing at the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights' Third National Immigrant and Refugee Rights Training Institute.

exhibition of artists and writers at playspace

 

What's the Story—an exhibition curated by CCA graduate student Katina Papson—explores the ideas that emerge when the boundaries of words and images overlap. Work by contemporary artists and writers working with words and/or images as frames of reference to build narratives will be exhibited in:

 

Christine Wong Yap, Heather Feeney, Casey Jex Smith, David Gurman, Lea Redmond, Jessalyn Haggenjos-Barr, Chadwick Rantanen, Patricia Esquivias, Ali Naschke-Messing, Trish Stone, D.U.S.T.Y (Digital Underground Story Telling For Youth), Eliot Daughtry, Gabrielle Teschner, Frank Ebert, Ryan Pierce, Elizabeth Cook, John Bechtold, German Moreno, Sarah Klockars, Amanda Herman, Jennifer O’Keeffe, Storymouth (sound artists who remake fairy tales), William Ivy and several others.

Exhibit: October 25 – November 2, 2006
Reception: Thursday, October 26, 5-8PM, Free
PLAySPACE Gallery, California College of the Arts
1111 Eighth Street, San Francisco, CA

Photos from What's the Story appear on Alan Bamberger's ArtBusiness.com.

9/14 - 10/28/2006 : murphy & cadogan

I'm very excited to be a recipient of the 2006 Murphy Fellowship in the Fine Arts.Sponsored by the San Francisco Foundation, the Murphy and Cadogan Fellowships in the Fine Arts offer awards to Bay Area fine arts graduate students for continued academic study. These fellowships assist local artists in developing and exploring their artistic potential. Winners are selected through a blind jury process. The work of recipients can be seen at Immediate Future.

 

Artists: Eric Araujo, Chris Bell, Brice Bischoff, Robert Burden, Amir Esfahani, Renee Gertler, Kara Hearn, Madhu Jalli, Bessma Khalaf, Antonios Kosmadakis, Melanie Lacy Kusters, Steven Vasquez Lopez, Jessica Miller, Kamau Amu Patton, Ryan Pierce, Susannah Prinz, Jana Rumberger, Anthony Ryan, Emily Silver, Jamie Spinello, Cyane Tornatzky, Jessica Walker, Jenifer Wofford, Christine Wong Yap, Vanessa Woods, Edmund Wyss

Opening Reception: Thurs., Sept. 14. 6-8 pm.
Exhibition: Sept. 14 - Oct. 28, 2006.
San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery
401 Van Ness Street, San Francisco, CA.

9/14 - 9/16/2006 : art auction for a.p.a. women's rights

I'm proud to donate two paintings to the National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum for their silent auction at their 10th annniversary conference. NAPAWF aims to forge a progressive movement for the economic, social justice, and political empowerment of APA women and girls.

Conference: Advancing APA Women’s Rights: A Decade of Building Power, Justice & Community
September 14-16, 2006
Loyola Marymount University
Los Angeles, CA

on the radio

At the opening of the Home exhibit at Kearny Street Workshop, I spoke with Nguyen Qui Duc, host of KQED radio's Pacific Time. My comments included in the brief segment, "Asian Americans' Notions of Home," which aired July 13.

 

Pacific Time is "the only nationally distributed radio show about Asia and Asian Americans" according to Vanessa Hua ("Good morning, Vietnam," SF Chronicle, August 15, 2006). I feel fortunate to have been a small part of Pacific Time: Nguyen is relocating back to Vietnam.

the home show

Kearny Street Workshop presents a new exhibition about home and belonging, featuring work by Kevin B. Chen, Max Chen, Amy Lee, Peter Joseph Macapugay, Sue Pak, Robynn Takayama, Christine Wong Yap and Jiayi Young.

 

In a world characterized by constant motion, migration, and relocation, the idea of “home” becomes both increasingly precious and increasingly complex. For immigrant communities, the meaning of home is further entangled, particularly in the context of a political climate in which immigrants are often viewed with suspicion and fear. Curated by Samantha Chanse, Pratap Chatterjee, Gerry Chow, Derek Chung, and Han Pham.

 

Exhibition: July 11–August 31st, 2006. The gallery is free and open to the public; donations accepted.
Gallery Hours: Tues – Fri, 12 – 4 PM and by appointment.
Kearny Street Workshop’s space180, 180 Capp Street, 3rd Floor, @17th street, San Francisco, CA.

7/15: community virology

"Community Virology is a show that is the result of a constructed virus in Oakland. The action of this virus is simple: It infects only Oakland artists and causes them to infect other Oakland artists. The virus is intially within 6 people who infect 6 more people. This process will happen 4 times resulting in 1554 artists being infected."

 

"While Oakland is composed of many communities it is also one community. This show is an attempt to remove control from individuals and give it to the community, the result will be the bringing together of a group no one person could form, but is entirely Oakland. The movement of the virus will be tracked, and presented visually, so at the end we will be able to discern how this group of artists has formed, and its connections."

 

Fourth viral phase opening: Saturday, July 15th.
7-9 pm
Lobot Gallery, 1800 Campbell Street, West Oakland, CA.

State of the Nation: Auction @ Intersection

In June, I donated art to State of the Nation, Intersection for the Arts' summer auction. Intersection is San Francisco's oldest alternative art space.

 

Wrought-Iron Gate #1 and #2, 2006, graphite and wine on paper, 17"x14"

 

About the work: Wrought-Iron Gate #1 and #2 are my personal responses to the current immigration dialogue. Wrought-iron gates demarcate estates and gated communities. They function physically and psychologically, signifying wealth and traditional values. Like wrought-iron, architectural drawings (and wine) can be consumed to express values related to class.

 

Participating artists include Sandow Birk, Victor Cartegena, May Chan, Ali Dadgar, Ala Ebtekar, Amanda Eicher, Tia Factor, Robert Gutierrez, Chris Johanson, Noah Lang, Kara Maria, Patrick Piazza, Maria Porges, Rigo, Favianna Rodriguez, Rebeka Rodriguez, Andrew Schoultz, Stephanie Syjuco, more.

Art Auction to benefit API HIV/AIDS organization

In May, I contributed art to the silent auction at the API Wellness Center's National Asian & Pacific Islander HIV/AIDS Awareness Day. The API Wellness Center is North America's oldest non-profit that focuses on the API community around HIV/AIDS services. Both prints sold and 75% of the proceeds will go to the non-profit.

Cloud #1 and Cloud #2. 2006, collagraphic monoprint on Rives BFK, 22"x30" / 30"x22"

 

About the work: Cloud #1 and #2 are investigations on the inadequacy of language. By working with illegible Gothic script and abstraction, I hope to examine language's limits. I am also interested in how anxious masses of texts inhabit or alter space.

 

These phrases are cut from thin copper sheets using specialty scissors and a common utility knife. The prints were made by applying ink to pieces of copper, thread and elastic, and printing them on an etching press in multiple passes.

 

Thanks to curator Cicely Sweed, Community Engagement Assistant at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.

Paintings selected for public collection

Posted May 1, 2006.

 

Four of my paintings have been selected for the Alameda County Art Collection. The Good Life #2, The Good Life #3, Untitled #6 (Silk Jacket) and Untitled #4 (Price Drop) may be displayed in County buildings such as social service offices and courthouses for the enjoyment of the general public. I am pleased that my work--which has been inspired by Oakland--will enter a local, public collection.

Monster Drawing Rallied

Check out a photo of my drawing at SF Gate's Culture blog.

 

In February, me, super CCA MFA candidates Weston Teruya, Michele Carlson, Jamie Vasta, and dozens of other artists drew for one-hour shifts at a crazy-fun event at Southern Exposure, an alternative art space.

open Studio: sunday, april 9, 2006

I'll be opening my studio to the public as part of the California College of the Arts' Graduate Studies Open Studios on Sunday, April 9 from noon to 5 pm.

 

You are invited to browse new installations, paper cuts, prints and drawings. I'll be on hand to talk about my exciting first months at CCA's Master's of Fine Arts program, as well as my recent five-day New York art crash course. Refreshments will be served.

 

CCA's Open Studios is your chance to roam the funny, messy and inspiring studios of graduate students in fine arts, architecture, design, and writing. Almost 100 Master's of Fine Arts candidates--working in painting, printmaking, sculpture, ceramics, textiles, photography, video, wood/furniture, glass and social practices--are expected to participate. Studio maps will be available at the main entrance.

Sunday, April 9, 2006
12-5pm
California College of the Arts, San Francisco Campus
1111 Eighth Street (off of 16th Street in Potrero Hill)
Free and open to the public.

inset: detail from a recent monoprint.

Two recent installations at Fling

On March 11, I unveiled two new installations at Fling: Getting It On For Art's Sake, a one-night gallery and performance event at SOMArts that tests the act of commitment and the limits of relationships by pairing artists, musicians, filmmakers, writers and performers to collaborate on an imagined “relationship.”

 

Thanks to curators Derek Chung and Han Pham for stellar jobs organizing and promoting the event — and thanks to the 350+ people who attended!

exhibition from oakland to osaka

Two of my prints (a woodcut and monoprint) have been accepted in an exhibition featuring work in printmaking by students at CCA and Osaka University of Arts.

Oakland Exhibition: February 13–20, 2006
Reception: Wednesday, February 15th, 5:30-7:30 pm
Oliver Arts Center, California College of the Arts
5212 Broadway at College Ave., Oakland, CA. directions
Info: 510.594.3636
Free.

 

Osaka Exhibition: July 2006
Osaka University of Arts, Osaka, Japan