ASIAN AMERICAN ARTISTS DISCUSS THEIR WORK
IN UH’S ‘ARTISTS UP CLOSE’ ROUNDTABLE
Due to globalization and immigration, the question of what it means
to be Asian American is in constant flux, and it often falls to
artists to sort through and give voice to the cultural duality that
informs their lives.
Houston audiences will soon get a chance to hear what some emerging
Asian American artists have to say, thanks to the “Roundtable
on Contemporary Asian American Art” to be held at 2 p.m.,
Saturday, Jan. 20 at Blaffer Gallery, the Art Museum of the University
of Houston. The event is free and open to the public.
The discussion is part of the “Artists Up Close” series,
a collaboration between the Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the
Arts at UH (CWMCA), Blaffer Gallery and the UH School of Art.
The roundtable will feature five artists with work in the Blaffer
Gallery exhibition, “One Way or Another: Contemporary Asian
American Art Now,” which runs Jan. 20 through March 31. The
artists – Chitra Ganesh, Geraldine Lau, Glenn Kaino, Jean
Shin and Mika Tajima – will be joined by Melissa Chiu, museum
director of Asia Society, which organized the exhibition; and Terrie
Sultan, director of Blaffer Gallery and chair of CWMCA’s board
of directors.
“I am very pleased that, through the auspices of the Mitchell
Center, we can expand and deepen our audiences’ experience
of the creative process by providing opportunities for the viewer
to interact with the artist within the context of a museum exhibition,”
Sultan said.
UH art students, in particular, stand to benefit from “Artists
Up Close.”
“It’s not every day that students have the chance to
reach out to a broad circle of artists on site, to talk with them,
ask questions, and experience different ways of working,”
Sultan said. “This will be like a mini-seminar that augments
their already rigorous studio program.”
The “Artists Up Close” series offers free public performances,
discussions and demonstrations by artists featured in Blaffer Gallery
exhibitions. For more information about “One Way or Another:
Contemporary Asian American Art Now,” visit http://www.hfac.uh.edu/blaffer/exhibitions/current_exhibition/one_way_or_another.html.
WHAT: |
“Artists Up Close:
Roundtable on Contemporary Asian American Art” |
WHEN: |
2 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 20 |
WHERE: |
Blaffer Gallery, the Art Museum
of the University of Houston
120 Fine Arts Building
University of Houston - Entrance 16
Houston, TX 77204 |
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the universitys Newsroom at www.uh.edu/admin/media/newsroom.
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