Weston Teruya is a visual artist and founding member of Related Tactics, a collective of artists, writers, curators, and educators of color creating projects and opportunities at the intersection of race and culture. Through a partnership with the online arts criticism platform Daily Serving- Art Practical, Weston launched (un)making, a podcast with artists, arts administrators, […]
Updated / Tuesday, 29 May 2018 17:00 Artist Helen O’Leary at IMMA In 2016 Hennessy Ireland formed a partnership with IMMA to help fund the purchase of important works by Irish and Irish based artists – to date, the Hennessy Art Fund has enabled IMMA to acquire 12 new works by 12 major artists (6 […]
By: Marcus Civin In her Baltimore home studio, Victoria Jang points out two wet ovoid forms, clay covered in plastic, works-in-progress she is turning on a Lazy Susan as she builds them up in slabs. The thirty-one-year-old artist recalls how her Korean-American mother prepared her school lunch, beautifully and energetically failing at making the typically slapped-together American-style […]
East and West converge in different ways in the work of Miya Ando and Jiha Moon, two Asia-rooted female artists who have shows in adjacent galleries at the American University Museum. While Moon’s art includes some conspicuous American ingredients, Ando’s work might seem to be purely Asian. “Most Everyone’s Mad Here,” a 2015 work by […]
Korean-Born, Atlanta-Based Artist Mixes Familiar with Foreign in Asian-Western Fusion By Mackenzie Weinger April 30, 2018 A kaleidoscope of colors, pop culture references and traditional Asian art techniques collide in “Jiha Moon: Double Welcome, Most Everyone’s Mad Here,” an exhibition suffused with both satirical whimsy and contemporary relevance. The show, at the American University Museum, […]
We are honored to announce Stanford University has awarded a significant commission for the new Bass Biology Building to experimental media artist Gail Wight. The commission is a large scale photo-collage, approximately 600 square feet, titled Pacific Cadence. The installation will coincide with the opening of the bullding Fall 2018. The photo-collage extends across the Entry Lobby, the sliding […]
Artist Helen O’Leary with some of her work Esther Hayden April 28 2018 12:00 AM A Kilrane woman has won a prestigious visual arts prize. Helen O’Leary, a native of Kilrane, has been named as a winner of the 2018-2019 Rome Prize in the visual arts category by the American Academy in Rome. She is […]
APRIL 24, 2018 BY ETTY YANIV Helen O’Leary, installation view of Home is a foreign country, 2018, photo courtesy of Lesley Heller by Eva O’Leary Helen O’Leary‘s sculptural paintings are delicate and rough, subtle and raw, literal and metaphoric – they embrace and prick the viewer at the same time. Her current exhibition “Home is a foreign […]
Helen O’Leary (BFA 1988, MFA 1989) Image courtesy of Penn State University. On April 12, Helen O’Leary (BFA 1988, MFA 1989) received the American Academy Rome Prize in Visual Arts for 2018–19. The Rome Prize winners are selected annually by independent juries of distinguished artists and scholars through a national competition. O’Leary is one of 29 winners for the […]
By Paul Middendorf Apr 19, 2018 7:51PM An impressive exhibition has mounted and will soon come down at the Station Museum, bringing forth the ever abrasive journey of a culture struggling to be part of a country. In(di)visible, the museum’s latest show, tackles the daily issues of discrimination, immigration and radicalized social hierarchy among Asian Americans. The […]