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SUMMARY:YUJI WATANABE 妖怪と風景 Yōkai and Landscapes
DESCRIPTION:Picto New York presents 妖怪と風景 Yōkai and Landscapes\, an exhibition of photographs by Yuji Watanabe\, curated by Charli Sas. \nHave you ever glimpsed a figure on an empty road\, then looked again and found no one? Or looked into a mirror a little too long\, until the face looking back didn’t quite seem to be yours? Japanese folklore has a name for what appears in those moments: yōkai. \nPhotographed on 8×10 Polaroid\, Watanabe’s Yōkai series gives bodily form to spirits\, creatures\, and transformed objects drawn from folklore. Watanabe’s Yōkai series is shown alongside a new body of landscapes photographed across Japan\, shot on ONE INSTANT peel-apart film\, unfolding like an emaki (絵巻)\, a Japanese illustrated handscroll. Mountains\, forests\, caves\, waterfalls\, and still water become places where something may have just disappeared\, or may be about to appear. \nA soundscape by Pinkcourtesyphone\, sound artist and composer Richard Chartier\, runs through the exhibition\, extending this sense of uncertainty beyond the image. \nOn view: October 15- December 15\, 2026\, Mon- Friday 10AM- 6PM\, Weekends by appointment
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/28382/
LOCATION:Picto New York\, 77 Washington Avenue\, 3rd Flr.\, Brooklyn\, New York\, 11205
CATEGORIES:Photography
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SUMMARY:Sống: Photographs by Ocean Vuong
DESCRIPTION:Writer and poet Ocean Vuong began taking photographs as a teenager. With a borrowed Nikon camera in hand\, he captured intimate scenes in the nail salon where his mother worked for decades and documented the post-industrial landscapes and abandoned mills of Hartford\, Connecticut\, where his family settled after leaving Vietnam in the wake of the US war. \nSống: Photographs by Ocean Vuong\, the artist’s first New York City exhibition\, foregrounds working-class diasporic Vietnamese life through a photographic archive spanning nearly twenty years. The photographs on view echo the narratives from Vuong’s literary works by drawing attention to the quotidian and the deeply personal – Vuong’s brother’s shoes\, home altars\, a mother feeding her baby\, an embrace between friends\, an American flag. \nSống\, which means “to live” in Vietnamese\, includes several photographs taken in the aftermath of Vuong’s mother’s death in 2019 that frame the evolving relationship with his brother\, Nicky\, as they mourned and navigated their immense grief. Vuong writes\, “I started taking photographs as a way to make our lives legible to my mother. And my mother’s looking made the elegy legible in my work.” \nOne of the most celebrated American writers of our time\, Vuong invites visitors to gaze through his aperture and offers a meditation on loss\, labor\, and kinship through the refugee condition. \nExtended gallery hours and gallery closures: \n\nOn Wednesday\, November 11 and Wednesday\, December 9\, the gallery will remain open until 8:00 p.m.\nThe gallery will be closed on Thursday\, November 26 and Friday\, November 27.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/song-photographs-by-ocean-vuong/
LOCATION:20 Cooper Square Gallery\, 20 Cooper Square\, New York\, New York\, 10003
CATEGORIES:Photography
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SUMMARY:Artist Talk: Ocean Vuong in Conversation with Tommy Kha
DESCRIPTION:Presented by the Asian/Pacific/American Institute at NYU.  \nThis program brings together artist and writer Ocean Vuong and photographer Tommy Kha to discuss Vuong’s photography practice and his exhibition\, Sống: Photographs by Ocean Vuong\, on view at the A/P/A Institute at NYU. A book signing will follow the conversation. \nSống: Photographs by Ocean Vuong\, the artist’s first New York City exhibition\, foregrounds working-class diasporic Vietnamese life through a photographic archive spanning nearly twenty years. The photographs on view echo the narratives from Vuong’s literary works by drawing attention to the quotidian and the deeply personal – Vuong’s brother’s shoes\, home altars\, a mother feeding her baby\, an embrace between friends\, an American flag. \nNYU campus access guidelines: This is an in-person event\, open to the public. Registration is required. \nAbout the Artists\nWriter\, professor\, and photographer Ocean Vuong is the author of On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous\, winner of the American Book Award\, The Mark Twain Award\, and The New England Book Award. The novel debuted for six weeks on The New York Times bestseller list and has since sold more than two million copies in forty-one languages. He is also the author of The Emperor of Gladness\, an Oprah Book Club selection and finalist for the Dublin Literary Award. A nominee for the National Book Award and a recipient of a MacArthur “Genius” Grant\, his books of poems include Time is a Mother\, a finalist for the Griffin prize\, and Night Sky with Exit Wounds\, a New York Times Top 10 Book\, winner of the T.S. Eliot Prize\, the Whiting Award\, and the Thom Gunn Award. He was the 2019-20 A/P/A Institute at NYU Artist-in-Residence. \nSelected by Time magazine as one of its 100 Rising Cultural Influencers\, Vuong’s writings have been featured in The Atlantic\, Granta\, Harpers\, The Nation\, New Republic\, The New Yorker\, The New York Times\, Paris Review\, The Village Voice\, and American Poetry Review\, which awarded him the Stanley Kunitz Prize for Younger Poets. \nBorn in Saigon\, Vietnam and raised in Hartford\, Connecticut in a working-class family of nail salon and factory laborers\, he was educated at nearby Manchester Community College before transferring to Pace University to study international marketing. Without completing his first term\, he dropped out and enrolled at Brooklyn College\, where he graduated with a BA in nineteenth century American literature. He subsequently received his MFA in poetry from NYU. In 2026\, he will serve as a Radcliffe Fellow at Harvard University. \nTommy Kha is a photographer currently based in Brooklyn\, New York. Kha holds an MFA in Photography from Yale University\, where he teaches. \nHe is a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow\, a previous recipient of the Hayes Prize\, Next Step Award\, Foam Talent\, and NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow. He has had solo shows at Higher Pictures\, Addison Gallery of American Art\, BAXTER ST (Camera Club of New York)\, and Blue Sky Gallery. Kha’s work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine\, Aperture\, the New Yorker\, among other publications\, and most recently was an artist-in-resident at Shadowcliff Residency\, Pioneer Works\, and Lighthouse Works. He joined Higher Pictures in 2022. His first major publication\, Half\, Full\, Quarter was published by Aperture in February 2023. \nKha’s first museum solo\, Other Things Uttered\, opened at the Addison Gallery of American Art in September 2025. He has been collected by the Museum of Modern Art\, SFMoMA\, High Museum\, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts\, and George Eastman House.
URL:https://potluckasianamerica.org/event/artist-talk-ocean-vuong-in-conversation-with-tommy-kha/
LOCATION:Eisner & Lubin Auditorium in the Kimmel Center\, 60 Washington Square S\, New York\, New York\, 10012
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