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SUMMARY:Guest House: Welcome Home
DESCRIPTION:Portraiture is as old as the pharaohs of Egypt. While mediums such as drawing\, painting\, and photography dominate the practice\, rendering a three-dimensional likeness yielded astounding work across centuries\, from the chiseled marble of the Renaissance to Gian Lorenzo Bernini’s sensuous sculptures. Unlike marble\, stone\, or bronze\, wax possesses a luminosity that makes it ideal for human approximation. In the last century\, the art of the wax figure has evolved from commercial spectacle into a medium for serious artistic exploration. \nBased in Zhongshan\, China\, and with three decades of experience\, the artist Zhou Xuerong has created more than 900 wax figures through her studio Grand Orient Wax Art. In her first U.S. exhibition\, Guest House: Welcome Home\, she depicts human figures\, each a work of original artistic interpretation\, engaged in six rituals that shape Asian life. With a nod to American photographer Gregory Crewdson’s staged tableaux exploring the ennui of suburban life\, Zhou zooms in and situates her protagonists in common domestic scenes: sipping tea\, practicing calligraphy\, inserting acupuncture needles\, cooking with a wok\, sharing a meal\, and playing the erhu\, a two-stringed fiddle. \nEach figure is dressed in a qipao\, a historical silhouette that originated as loose-fitting military gowns worn by nobles during the Qing Dynasty. At the turn of the 20th century\, Shanghai became a center of international trade\, influencing local tailors to draw on Western design to nip the qipao’s waistline\, narrow its skirt\, and lengthen its side slit. Today\, the dress’s form is a fixture in both Eastern and Western fashion. \nThe figures’ faces evoke familiar presences — cultural icons reimagined and transplanted into a room where their identity dissolves into ambiguity\, fluctuating between the everyday and the uncanny. They sit at a tea table\, lift a calligraphy brush\, pluck at a classical instrument\, and together pose a critical question at the heart of the artist’s commentary: what happens when one culture’s icons are transposed into the traditions of another? \nZhou’s quiet interiority of place and person is an inheritance made visible — for insiders\, a mirror; for outsiders\, a window. We must consider how Chinese culture\, once mocked and derided\, has traveled\, and now shapes a global imagination. Above all\, Guest House: Welcome Home is a cultural bridge. Zhou illuminates connection through an emotive stillness: a turned wrist\, a pursed lip\, a downward gaze. Her wax guests partake in ritual as a form of welcome and practice as a gesture of love. \nGuest House: Welcome Home is an original work of fine art and cultural commentary by Zhou Xuerong. The exhibition is not sponsored by\, affiliated with\, or endorsed by any individual to whom the sculptures may bear a resemblance. \nDates: Sep 11 2026 to Sep 27 2026\nTimes: 12:00 PM – 6:00 PM
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/guest-house-welcome-home/
LOCATION:The Wang Contemporary\, 58 Bowery\, New York\, NY\, 10013\, United States
CATEGORIES:Art,Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Zine* Together
DESCRIPTION:Please join Asia Art Archive in America on Thursday\, September 17th from 5-8pm for the opening reception of their exhibition\, Zine﹡ Together. \nZine﹡ Together is the first exhibition of its kind to examine Asian American zines not only as objects\, but as actions—creative\, collective\, and relational. Drawing from Asia Art Archive in America’s Reading Room collection\, this exhibition highlights collaboratively produced zines from 2010 to the present\, alongside newly commissioned projects and prompts that trace zine-making as a mode of shared authorship and community building. \nIn the 1960s and 1970s\, zines (short for “magazines” or “fan-zines”) were characterized by their photo-copied\, staple-bound formats and emerged as popular do-it-yourself platforms for sharing counter-cultural socio-political programs and avant-garde art practice. In more recent decades and particularly in Asian American communities\, zines have served as a place to explore artistic narratives\, diasporic histories\, and collective responses to marginalization. \nKey to this exhibition is a commissioned research project and essay by Michelle Yee\, PhD\, and Elizabeth Chung that investigates the recent history of Asian American zines in relation to the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic and the parallel rise in anti-Asian violence across the United States. Situating zine-making within this moment of crisis\, the research frames the medium as one of many grassroots strategies for care\, documentation\, and solidarity. Together\, the exhibition and research project position zines not as peripheral ephemera\, but as vital cultural tools that register and record how communities respond in times of uncertainty. \nZine﹡ Together\, itself a collaborative project\, is organized by Claire Kim\, Susanna Chang\, Sarula Bao\, Michelle Yee\, Elizabeth Chung\, Mary Y. Yang\, Chen Luo\, and Tasnima Tanzim.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/zine-together/
LOCATION:Asia Art Archive in America\, 23 Cranberry Street\, Ground Floor\, Brooklyn\, NY\, 11201\, United States
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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