Raymond Hwang: “sleeping in; reminiscing about yourself as a Consolation prize in a race with No escape”, 2021
About the Show:
Curated by local artist Sophia Park, “Futures Ever Arriving” is inspired by Can Xue’s novel, Love in the New Millennium, which paints a picture of a hidden region in China where villagers shapeshift, impart the knowledge of life-giving medicine from the Earth, and protect each other to survive and to thrive. Driven by this cosmovision, the exhibition is inclusive of works from five emerging Asian American artists who are examining our past and present to dream up new futures with their work.
Guests can experience the entire exhibition through a self-guided tour map with the locations of each piece marked throughout the main concourse. Additionally, guests can scan QR codes displayed next to each piece to learn more about the artwork and artists.
Artists Statements:
Raymond Hwang – Raymond Hwang is an artist currently living and working in Ridgewood, NY. “My work often draws from the fallacy and inadequacy of memory, and how it relates to themes of family and violence within my second-generation Asian American experience. Throughout my paintings, forms are rendered with differing levels of atmospheric energy that challenge the idea of what is concrete. I choose to embrace the inaccuracies that reveal themselves afterwards because I believe there’s a reason our minds remember things a certain way.”
Christina Yuna Ko – Christina Ko is a Korean American artist living and working in Queens, NY. She received her BFA from Cornell University in 2013 and has since then shown her work in Los Angeles, Washington D.C., and in around NYC. “I attempt to demarcate the visual lexicon born from the cultural inheritance of a multi-generational Asian American experience through paintings and installations.”
Jennifer G. Lai – Jennifer G. Lai is an audio producer, writer, and artist based in NYC. Most of Jennifer’s pieces use vintage National Geographic magazines from the ‘50s, ‘60s, and ‘70s — a time when most of their photos promoted colonialism (if not outright racism.)
Kim Sandara – Kim Sandara is a Laotian/Vietnamese, artist from Northern Virginia and now based in Brooklyn, NY. She has been featured in Visart's Gen 5 exhibition, the Torpedo Factory's 2019 Emerging Artists exhibition and the Washington Project for the Arts’ 2019 Auction Gala. In her Torpedo Factory summer 2019 Post-Grad Residency, she created a stop motion animation about her parent's immigration story intersecting her coming out story. She used the studio space as a shop to fund raise for local and national LGBTQ+ nonprofits empowering queer youth.
Jia Sung – Jia Sung is an artist and educator, born in Minnesota, bred in Singapore, now based in Brooklyn, and received a BFA from RISD in 2015. Her paintings and artist books have been exhibited across North America, including the Knockdown Center, RISD Museum, Wave Hill, EFA Project Space, Lincoln Center, Yale University, and MOMA PS1. Her work has been published in The Paris Review, Emergence Magazine, Hyperallergic, Jacobin Magazine, and Asian American Writers Workshop, and collected by SFMOMA and the Special Collections at Yale, SAIC, and RISD. She has taught at organizations like the AC Institute, Abrons Arts Center, Children’s Museum of the Arts, and Museum of Chinese in America.