UICA

CW is currently installed in an exhibition at the Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts, in Grand Rapids, Michigan.  the show at UICA was a part of ArtPrize 2011, an annual city-wide art competition that invites national and international artists to exhibit in art venues all around Grand Rapids.  the competition hosts numerous art-related events and seeks to encourage the general public to venture out into the city to view art.  my piece was also featured on the cover of the exhibition pamphlet!  thanks to UICA for such a great opportunity.

click here for my artist page at the UICA website.

you win some, you lose some

DO installation

 

direct object sneak peek

amelia and i are collaborating on an installation for the overture center for the arts.  the opening reception is on friday, july 15, coinciding with the openings of two other exhibitions at the overture.  our installation will be up until the middle of september!

here's the blurb from their website:

Overture Galleries

Direct Object

an exhibition by Amelia Toelke and Chinn Wang

Tue, Jul 5 - Sun, Sep 18

Gallery I | Free

 

In the exhibition, Direct Object, low-relief wall pieces depict images of everyday objects to explore the power and psychology of humans’ intrinsic attraction to objects and images.  Collaborators Amelia Toelke and Chinn Wang combine the materials and techniques of both sculpture and printmaking to create their installation at the Overture Center, employing punctuation elements and typographic symbols to compose a visual run-on sentence.  The exhibition presents the artists’ shared interest in themes of domesticity, nostalgia, consumerism, ornamentation, heirloom, and history.

Summer Gallery Cycle RECEPTION: FRI, JUL 15th from 6 pm to 8 pm

website update

just finished redesigning my website!
check it out here.

faux finish finished

well it's been a few weeks since my show, and i'm still reeling from the excitement and exhaustion from the epic install (thank you to my all my heroes that day, but especially to lisa, for being the best thesis-maid a girl could ask for, my super duo, A + A, for helping out yet again, and to my mom and dad for slaving away the entire day/night/weekend), my opening reception and the ensuing fun-filled family/friends weekend, my orals, the equally epic deinstall (thank you again to my heroes, andy and andrea), and then the post-grad-post-show slump/life insanity that has unfurled the past couple of weeks.  but that's another tale....

finally, here are some photos from the show and a some of my faves from install and the reception.  more shots can be seen here and here.  and more details of the individual pieces are still to come, as well as the statement that goes with the exhibition.

(the first nine photos are by the amazing jim escalante)

print no more

i printed my last piece for my show yesterday morning!!!!!  still plenty to do, but the work is finished.  i've been floating on a cloud of bliss for the past 24 hours, but now i'm back to my studio trying to assess and develop a game plan for the final week.  the forecast for next thursday (the day i move my work over to the gallery) shows rain, and i'm trying not to hyperventilate...trying hard.