News Archive 2009
review published
Posted December 19, 2009
My review of Pablo Guardiola’s solo show at Galería de la Raza has been published on ArtPractical.com.
bellwether: inaugural exhibition at southern exposure's new location
Updated August 31, 2009
I'll unveil a brand new sculpture at the inaugural show of SoEx's new building.
mirrorsblack, 2009, wood, mirrors, spraypaint, lights, casters, 36 × 66 x 36 inches / 1 × 1.6 × 1 m
Southern Exposure is proud to present Bellwether, the inaugural exhibition in our new home on 20th Street in San Francisco's Mission District. The artists in Bellwether engage in multi-layered speculative projections on our ever shifting and uncertain future. Whether by indulging in their hopeful fantasies or examining their trepidation, the artists provide unique and perhaps unconventional tools and methodologies for envisioning and navigating the unknown. Through anticipation and fear, excitement and anxiety, prediction and instruction, the projects in this exhibition begin to give form to the haziness that lies ahead.
Bellwether includes a gallery exhibitions, public art projects, public program series and publication and is curated by Southern Exposure’s Curatorial Committee.
Featuring newly commissioned work by Ant Farm, Renée Gertler, Liz Glynn,
Jonn Herschend, Whitney Lynn, Jay Nelson, Nonchalance, Lordy Rodriguez, Christine Wong Yap, and SoEx’s Youth Advisory Board.
"Fall
Arts Preview" by Kenneth Baker, S.F. Chronicle
"Fall
Arts Preview" by Johnny Ray Huston, S.F. Guardian
"Under
Exposure's Spell" by Hiya Swanhuyser, S.F. Weekly
"Bellwether:
Southern Exposure's Latest" by Kenneth Baker, S.F. Chronicle
"Bellwether" by
Renny Pritikin, ArtPractical.com
Bellwether
Southern Exposure
October 17–December 12, 2009
Member's Opening: Fri., October 16, 8–10 pm
Public Opening: Sat., October 17, 4–10 pm
SoEx's New Location: 3030 20th Street, San Francisco, CA 94110
dec. 5: exercises in seeing, one night only
I'm showing a new mirror-based piece in a conceptual, one-night only exhibition featuring local and international artists.
A free audio guide by David Buuck is available at archive.org.
Featuring projects by: Jesse Ash (UK), Olivier Babin (FR), Nina Beier (DK), Francesca Bennett & Nicholas Matranga (CA/NL), Raymond Boisjoly & Ryan Peter (CA), Liudvikas Buklys (LT), Deric Carner (US), Etienne Chambaud (FR), Brian Clifton (US), Torreya Cummings (US), Dina Danish (EG/NL), Gintaras Didžiapetris (LT), Rosie Farrell (UK), Isola & Norzi (IT), Seth Lower (US), Benoit Maire (FR), Darius Mikšys (LT), Tegan Moore (CA), Elena Narbutaite (LT), Daniel Oates Kuhn (US/CA), Kamau Amu Patton (US), Mandla Reuter (DE), Snowden Snowden (US), Gareth Spor (US), David Stein (US), Daniel Turner (US), Freek Wambacq (NL), Jen Weih (CA), Christine Wong Yap (US).
Post Brothers present
Exercises in Seeing
a one night only exhibition held entirely in the dark
Sat., Dec. 5, 2009, 9pm–6am
Queen’s Nails Projects, 3191 Mission St., San Francisco
Free and open to the public
nov 6: color + color west coast launch
Posted November 6, 2009
I've contributed images to a new artist-initiated publication; join us for the West Coast launch party.
Color&Color is an artist-curated publication guided by the
duality of two thematic colors per issue. The premier issue, Color&Color
#0, features Orange & Blue with work by Deric
Carner, Amanda
Curreri, Renee
Gertler, Jason
Hanasik, Sam Lopes,
Celia Manley, Jeremy Chase Sanders, Erik
Scollon, Skye
Thorstenson, and Christine Wong Yap. Color&Color is curated
by Amanda Curreri & Erik Scollon.
Color&Color #0
Purchase the limited edition book at Blurb.com.
Download a PDF.
View the blog.
West Coast launch party
Friday, Nov. 6, 9 pm – 1 am
LiPo Lounge, 916 Grant Avenue, San Francisco
october 20–23: zeitgeist video profile
Updated October 29, 2009
A profile on my work in the Breathe Residency at Chinese Arts Centre appeared on Zeitgeist, an arts and entertainment program. Originally aired October 20–24 in Manchester, the episode is online for streaming.
Zeitgeist, Episode #14, October 2009
Channel M, Manchester, U.K.
intermediate sketchbook mixed media
Posted November 9, 2009
I'm teaching a new class at the ASUC Art Studio at UC Berkeley. You can still join the next class on Wednesday, Nov. 11th.
Sketchbook Drawing / Mixed Media is a two-part introduction to the art of keeping an artist’s book‚ a highly personalized, mobile form of developing creativity, recording daily life and exercising mixed media techniques, such as lettering, chance procedures and collaboration. Concepts will include narrative art, composition, sequencing, and taxonomies. The course will include the presentation of books and narrative imagery spanning the realms of contemporary and modern art, graphic design, illustration, comics and other forms of mass culture.
Intermediate Sketchbook Mixed Media
Wednesdays, Nov. 4–Dec. 9, 2009, 7–9 pm
Class location: STA, MLK Jr. Student Union, lower level
ASUC
Art Studio
UC Berkeley
through october 29: palimpsests at tarryn teresa gallery
Updated October 9, 2009
Binary Pair (installation view), installation (motors, lights, paint, ink), 6 x 14 x 6 feet / dim. var.
Leah Ollman's review of Palimpsests appeared in the October 9th edition of the L.A. Times.
I'm looking forward to showing recent text-based works, including the kinetic light sculpture Binary Pair, in my first Los Angeles exhibit.
Tarryn Teresa Gallery is pleased to present Palimpsests, an exhibit
from guest curator Elizabeth Williams featuring work by Cara
Barer, Annie Vought and
Christine Wong Yap. Whether done playfully or poignantly, the artists in Palimpsests pay
tribute to the associations and meanings we bring to the written word. Collections
of words can differ extraordinarily, as can the reader’s response to
them. Letters, books, newspapers, magazines or small one-page notes all offer
the ability to inspire feelings of attachment or even aversion. An audience’s
perception is mainly influenced by the meaning of the words themselves, but
the manner of delivery can create an air of legitimacy, sentimentality or
stronger emotions. With these visual works, the artists address the continuum
of the written word.
Palimpsests
September 26–October 29, 2009
Artist's Reception: September 26, 6–8 pm
Tarryn Teresa
Gallery
1820 Industrial St. #230
Los Angeles, CA
hours: Mon.–Fri., 11 am–5 pm, Sat. 11 am–4 pm
october 22: color + color launching at P.P.O.W Gallery
Updated October 16, 2009
I've contributed images to a new artist-initiated publication launching at an interdisciplinary event at P•P•O•W Gallery.
The premier issue of Color&Color will launch during Three Pieces at P•P•O•W Gallery in New York City.
Color&Color is an artist-curated publication guided by the duality of two thematic colors per issue. The premier issue, Color&Color #0, features Orange & Blue with work by Deric Carner, Amanda Curreri, Renee Gertler, Jason Hanasik, Sam Lopes, Celia Manley, Jeremy Chase Sanders, Erik Scollon, Skye Thorstenson, and Christine Wong Yap.
Color&Color is conceived as a mobile venue in which to present new work of artists we respect and with whom we want to work. We hope that with each issue the publication can connect artists with new audiences and expanded dialogue. Not wanting to rely solely on traditional venues like galleries and museums, Color&Color presents artwork via the serial print medium. This opens up access to new spatial-temporal configurations for the work. The publication is available both in printed and digital format. Proceeds from sales go directly to future issues of Color&Color.
Color&Color is curated by Amanda Curreri & Erik Scollon.
Color&Color #0
Purchase the limited edition book at Blurb.com.
Download a PDF.
View the blog.
Three Pieces is an ongoing series which showcases three new pieces of sound, image, text or movement from local and visiting artists. Presented by Roddy Schrock and Deric Carner in various locations.
P•P•O•W and The Hostess Project presents
Three Pieces: Platform for Art and Sound
Amanda Curreri & Erik Scollon, o.blaat (Keiko Uenishi), Sal Randolph
Thursday, October 22, 2009, 7–9 pm
P•P•O•W Gallery
511 W 25th St, Rm 301
New York City
www.genericfun.com/3pieces/
8/6-23 + 9/4-12: The Kiss of A Lifetime
Posted June 26, 2009
I've contributed a new print to this travelling U.K. exhibition.
The Kiss of a Lifetime is a limited edition print show curated by Mike Chavez Dawson, featuring the work of both internationally renowned artists and emerging talent from the UK and abroad.
This show aspires to give an overview to what the 'Kiss' signifies within
our contemporary
culture in the broadest sense, from the romantic to the lifesaving, from
the prosaic to the
violent. The show is presented salon style, with the artists proofs pinned
to the wall—like that of a love forlorn bedroom covered in posters
of idolisation.
With over ninety artists, the show features: Mark Applegate, Magda Archer, Edward Barton, Dave Beech, Divyesh Bhanderi, Simon Blackmore, Andrew Bracey, Brass Art, Lee Campbell, Paul Caton, Suki Chan, Lucienne Cole, Jane Chavez-Dawson, Mike Chavez-Dawson, Sandy Christie, Faye Claridge, Matthew Collings, Nick Crowe, Sophia Crilly, Antony Crook, Gordon Dalton, Alexandra David, Jo David, Stephen Davids, Gary Daly, Paul Davis, [deletia], Sarah Doyle, Sam Ely, Tim Etchells, Freee, Doug Fishbone, Bec Garland, Dom Garwood, Dave Gledhill, David Griffiths, S Mark Gubb, David Hancock, Shona Hadley, Lynn Harris, Paul Harfleet, Richard Healy, Andy Hewitt, Len Horsey, Rachael House, Stewart Home, Hilary Jack, Mel Jordan, Naomi Kashiwagi, Mark Kennard, Serena Korda, Abigail Lane, Jean-Pierre Lapeyre, Wiebke Leister, Chara Lewis, Charles Lindsay, Katrin Lock, Tessa Lynch, Jo McGonigal, Mark McGowan, Jude Macpherson, Melanie Manchot, Jim Medway, Alexis Milne, Jason Minsky, Kristin Mojsiewicz, David Molloy, Franz Otto Novotny, Joerg Obergfell, Matthew Pawson, Gary Peploe, Vinca Petersen, Anneké Pettican, Harry Pye, Brian Reed, Katy Richardson, Isabel Rock, Kenny Schachter, David Shrigley, Pamela So, Lisa Slominski, Paul Stanley, Chris Taylor, William Titley, James Topple, Jessica Voorsanger, Charlotte Young, Kai-Oi Jay Yung, John Walsh, Simon Woolham, Andrea Zapp + further special guests TBA.
The Kiss of A Lifetime
August 6-23: Vane,
Newcastle
September 4-12: Bearspace,
London
august 7–september 6: involved, socially at triple base gallery
Updated August 31, 2009
Unlimited Promise (installation view: Triple Base Gallery), 2009, installation: foil paper, thread, light, shadow, dim. var. Produced in the Breathe Residency at Chinese Arts Centre.
I'll contribute a recent light installation and a new artist's exchange project to this group show.
Reviews:
“‘Involved Socially’: Artists meld life and art” by Ari Messer, SF Chronicle
“Involved, Socially: Inspiration Name of Game” by Hiya Swanhuyser, SFWeekly.com
Blogs:
Stephanie Syjuco, StephanieSyjuco.Wordpress.com
Involved,
Socially
Curated by Michelle Blade
Amanda Curreri, David
Horvitz, Mark
McKnight, Jessica Williams and Christine Wong Yap
August 7–September 6, 2009
Opening Reception: August 7, 7–10pm
Triple Base Gallery
3041 24th Street, San Francisco, CA
gallery hours: Thu-Sun 12-5pm
7/12: headlands summer open house
Posted May 28, 2009
I've enjoyed being a member of the artist's community at the Headlands. Join me for my last Open House as an Affiliate Artist. My studio is in the basement of Building 960.
Take advantage of your only chance this Summer to visit with all of Headlands' artists inside their studios. You'll be surprised and delighted to see the many forms of artistic process, research, innovation, and development that happen here for the writers, musicians, dancers, choreographers and visual artists in residence. Readings and performances will also be scheduled throughout the day.
Artists in Residence: Jacob Dahlgren (installation, Sweden), Fallen Fruit (interdisciplinary, Los Angeles), Desirée Holman (interdisciplinary, Oakland), April Martin, film/video (OH), Aaron Noble (visual, CA), Tomas Phillips (music/composition, NC), Chris Sollars (film/video, San Francisco), Lysley Tenorio (writing, CA), Barry Underwood (photography, OH)
Project Space: Robert Minervini (painting/installation, CA)
Tournesol Award: Shaun O’Dell (painting)
Headlands Graduate Fellows: Michael Arcega (sculpture/installation, Stanford), Patrick Gillespie (interdisciplinary, CCA), Vera Kachouh (film/video, SFAI), Aaron Maietta (interdisciplinary, UC Berkeley), Michael Namkung (interdisciplinary, SF State), Joshua Short (installation, UC Davis), Andrew Witrak (sculpture, Mills College)
Affiliate Artists: Colette Campbell-Jones (visual), John Casey (visual), Christina Chan (visual), Julie Cloutier (interdisciplinary), Sandy Florian (writing), David Fought (sculpture), Christopher Gray (visual), Eric Hongisto (painting), Ginelle Hustrulid (film/video), Robin Johnston (fiber/visual), Julie Lara Kahn (interdisciplinary), Pawel Kruk (visual), Justin Limoges (visual), Emily McLeod (photography), Eileen Starr Moderbacher (visual), Danielle Mourning (film/video/photography), Megan Pruiett (writing), Sarah Rosenthal (writing), James Sansing (sculpture/installation/photography), Wayne Smith (visual/sound), Melissa Stein (poetry), Emily Wilson (visual), Maw Shein Win (writing), Christine Wong Yap (interdisciplinary)
Staff: Holly Blake (painting)
Summer Open House
Sunday, July 12, 2009, noon to 5 pm
Headlands Center for the
Arts
944 Fort Barry, Sausalito, CA 94965
Free
recent press
Posted May 28, 2009
My work has been seen here lately.
A review of the Activist Imagination catalog appeared in the Spring/Summer 2009 issue of Camerawork: A Journal of Photographic Arts.
An interview appeared on Spraygraphic on May 20, 2009
recent: Breathe residency in U.k.
Posted May 13, 2009
I just returned from Manchester, U.K., where I was the Breathe Artist in Residence at Chinese Arts Centre.
For more info, see the projects I exhibited at the Open Studio: Sorted, Pounds of Happiness, Cheap and Cheerful and Unlimited Promise, or read Everyday Ambition: Forays into Optimism and Pessimism, a report of my research findings.
dark into light in new media exhibition
Updated April 13, 2009
This spring, the Dark into Light installation and three auxillary works will be included in a new media and technology survey exhibition.
Christine
Wong Yap, Dark into Light, 2008, mixed media installation: 100
night lights, par can, spot bulb, 10 x 10 x 8 feet. Courtesy: Swarm Gallery,
Oakland, CA.
Featuring a broad range of conceptual and artistic approaches, the exhibition will be co-curated by the de Saisset Museum and SCU Assistant Professor Katherine Aoki. Artists in the exhibition include: Jim Campbell, Anthony Discenza, Rodney Ewing, Martha Gorzycki, Lynn Hershman, Sherry Karver, Nina Katchadourian, Scott Kildall, Andrew Kleindolph, Jill Miller, James Morgan, Deborah Oropallo, Trevor Paglen, Alan Rath, Jackie Sumell, Stephanie Syjuco, Gail Wight and Christine Wong Yap. This exhibition and its related programs are co-sponsored by Santa Clara University’s Technology Steering Committee and the Center for Science, Technology, and Society.
Tech Tools of the Trade: Contemporary New Media Art
Exhibition: April 17–June 28, 2009
DeSaisset Museum
Santa Clara University
6/6: pop noir: soex auction @ electric works
Posted April 13, 2009
Christine Wong Yap, You Have to Get To it to Get Through it / You Have to Get Through it to Get To It, 2009, ink on paper 7.625 x 11.5 inches each. Produced in the Breathe Residency at Chinese Arts Centre.
I'm proud to donate a pair of drawings to support Southern Exposure in this exciting year which will find them in a permanent new home.
POP NOIR Auction Artists: Lauren Anderson, Mike Arcega, Edgar Arceneaux, Brett Armory, Seth Armstrong, Ellen Babcock, Michael Bartalos, David Becker, Chris Bell, Bert Bergen, Libby Black, Michelle Blade, Lisa Blatt, Jaren Bonillo, Todd Bura, Charlie Callahan, Jeff Canham, Monica Canilao, Castaneda/Reiman, Ajit Chauhan, Youmna Chlala, Sydney Cohen, Adriane Colburn, Randy Colosky, Lisa Congdon, Alika Cooper, Reed Danziger, Lauren Davies, Veronica De Jesus, Chris Duncan, Steven Elliott, Kate Eric, Lukas Felzmann, Marcela Florez, Rhea Fontaine, Dustin Fosnot, David Fought, Adam Friedman, Stephen Galloway, Benicia Gantner, Renée Gertler, Maize Gilbert, Tanya Gill, Bryson Gill, Alexander Kori Girard, Jim Goldberg, Rebecca Goldfarb, Lori Gordon, Nick Graham, Tibora Bea Girczyc-Blum, Robert Gutierrez, Michael Hall, Oliver Halsman Rosenberg, Angela Hennessy, Jonn Herschend, Todd Hido, Terry Hoff, Amanda Hughen, Misa Inaoka, Colter Jacobsen, Jason Jagel, Xylor Jane, Packard Jennings, Johanna! Jackson and Chris Johanson, Kerri Johnson, Forest Kelley, Mary Anne Kluth, Jamie Knight, Christina La Sala, Mike Lai, Ken Lo, Jake Longstreth, Jessamyn Lovell, Marina Luz, Whitney Lynn, Alexis MacKenzie, Vanessa Marsh, Christina Mazza, Sean McFarland, Barry McGee, Dennis McNulty, Jen Merrill, Mike Monteiro, Julio Morales, Jeff Morris, Carson Murdach, Jay Nelson, Daniel Nevers, Kelsey Nicholson, Abner Nolan, Brion Nuda Rosch, Billy O'Callaghan, Jennie Ottinger, Erik Parra, Kamau Patton, Allison Pebworth, Hilary Pecis, Sasha Petrenko, Suzy Poling, Mel Prest, Emily Prince, Genevieve Quick, Basil Racuk, Kyle Ranson, Amy Rathbone, Laurie Reid, Lisa Ricci, Lordy Rodriguez, Thorina Rose, Kirstyn Russell, Nathaniel Russell, Sham Saenz, Jovi Schnell, Andrew Schoultz, Emily Sevier, Ryan Scott Shaffer, Orion Shepherd, Sarah Smith, Tracey Snelling, Lisa Solomon, Johanna St. Clair, Jennifer Starkweather, Stephanie Syjuco, The Thing Quarterly, Jessica Trippe, Weston Teruya, Kathryn VanD! yke, Jamie Vasta, Jamie Venci, Andy Vogt, Paul Wackers, Catherine Wagner, Anne Walsh, Tyson Washburn, Marci Washington, Lindsey White, Jenifer Wofford, Lena Wolff, Sandra Wong, Christine Wong Yap, & Kelli Yon.
Pop Noir: Southern
Exposure's Annual Spring Fundraiser and Art Auction
June 6, 2009, 7–11 pm
Electric Works, 130 8th Street, San Francisco
Tickets: Main Event/Mise-en-scène: $35; Preview Event/First on the Scene: $100
Buy tickets online at http://soex.org/popnoirtickets.html or 415-863-2141.
1/29–4/30 2009: Breathe residency
Updated April 13, 2009
Christine Wong Yap, It Gets Better, 2009, installation in progress 33.25 x 23.325 inches. Produced in the Breathe Residency at Chinese Arts Centre.
The Breathe residency is a three-month opportunity to provide an artist the time and space to contemplate their practice.
Breathe Artist-in-Residence Christine Wong Yap has immersed herself in art activity throughout the Northwest. She’s presented her work to MA students from local universities and reviewed art events and exhibitions from Barrow to Birmingham on her blog. She has also engaged in a self-directed course of study spanning British commemoratives, Roman typography, Mancunian slang and temperments, institutional signage, President Obama’s optimism, time perspectives and utopias. Her recent studio activities include text-based drawings, a installation of lights and shadows, and a light-box integrated into the Centre’s architecture. During the Open Studio, Wong Yap will share works-in-progress and release a new artist’s multiple.
Chinese Arts Centre was established in 1986 and is the international agency for the development of contemporary Chinese artists. It works to promote and support artists of Chinese descent through exhibitions, residencies, commissions, festivals, publications and agency work.
Breathe
Residency: January 29 – April 30, 2009
Open Studio: April 23 – 30, 2009 (Tues. – Sat., 10 am – 5
pm)
Reception: Thursday, April 23, 5:30 – 7:30 pm
Chinese Arts Centre
Manchester, UK
10/25/08-1/23/09: shifted focus: an APAture retrospecitve
Posted September 26, 2008
I'll be showing new work alongside nine other past APAture artists.
I'm contributing a set of four from the Lorem Ipsum series.
Featuring: Christine Wong Yap, Kevin B. Chen, Binh Danh, Rajkamal Kahlon, Michael Arcega, Kana Tanaka, Rebecca Szeto, Jenifer Wofford, Mark Baugh-Sasaki and Weston Teruya.
