Summer Open Studios

Laurie Kang, Worm, 2019 Flex-C track, powermesh, sand, cast aluminum dried lotus root, cast aluminum shiso leaf

Laurie Kang, Worm, 2019 Flex-C track, powermesh, sand, cast aluminum dried lotus root, cast aluminum shiso leaf

Opened: Friday, July 1 - 31, 5 - 7pm
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We are proud to participate in this year's virtual DUMBO Open Studios!
More than 100 artists and art organizations from DUMBO and Vinegar Hill will participate from July 1 - 31. Check out work by the artists that were in DUMBO Open Studios: Chen Liang-Hsuan, Laurie Kang, Rebecca Levitan, Paribartana Mohanty, Au Hoi Lam.

Chen Liang-Hsuan
Born in 1985, Taipei, Chen Liang-Hsuan obtained her MFA degree in 2016 from the Film, Video, New Media, and Animation Department of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Chen’s art predominately experiments space-time travel that seeks to connect together different time segments. From behind the video camera, she applies images on narratives and sounds, and creates spatial installations, and her approach of mixing experimental documentary and home video results in hyper-real states that blend together everyday life and personal memories that are uniquely Taiwanese.

Laurie Kang
Using photography, sculpture and installation, Laurie Kang's work is rooted in an enduring concern with the body and the forces that shape it—political, affective and otherwise. Drawing on fields such as biology, feminist theory, science fiction and her own biography, Kang stages installations that take up the body in and as a process, working with unstable, continuously sensitive materials that are functionally and metaphorically primordial and in flux.

Rebecca Levitan
“My highly concentrated paintings and works of text and image peek over the wall into lives both mundane and extraordinary in an attempt to transmute the flotsam of the world into a larger narrative. My work embraces a multiplicity of forms of image-making without judging their status. I am equally interested in Dutch Still Life, Indian miniature painting, and Chinese restaurant menus. I believe any honest accounting of our world includes all three, shows each equal care, and therefore isn’t limited to a singular style or mode of making. Thus, each work requires new techniques, approaches, and journeys down rabbit-holes. Together, my pieces form a body of work as disparate as the world that informs them, but linked by an interest in everyday moments and the vernacular image.”

Paribartana Mohanty
Paribartana Mohanty is a storyteller, works with video, performance-lecture, painting, writing, and curation. He obtained his Masters degree in History of Art from National Museum Institute, New Delhi (2006) and Bachelors in Fine Art from Dhauli College of Art and craft, Bhubaneswar (2004). He participated in the SOMA Summer Program 2018 focusing on the question of ‘Sustainability’ in Mexico City, supported by the Sharjah Art Foundation (2018). Mohanty also attended an intensive summer residency program at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture supported by Inlaks Shivdasani Foundation (2016), and a workshop on ‘Games’ by artist Carsten Holler at the Botin Foundation, Santander, Spain (2017).

Au Hoi Lam
AU Hoi Lam is a visual artist. She graduated from The Chinese University of Hong Kong (MFA 2004 & MPhil in Philosophy 2009). Through artistic creations, Au ruminates over her life experiences, but not to express herself eloquently. The subjects of her metaphorical and autobiographical work come from trivial but profound minute details of everyday life. She regards her art objects as ways of ‘the Care of the Self’: memorandum, keepsake, symbol, prayer and contemplative medium. Participated exhibitions included Au Hoi Lam: Memorandum ( _____ )(Art Basel Hong Kong, 2016), IV Moscow International Biennale for Young Art: A Time for Dream (Museum of Moscow, 2014), Woman-Home: In the Name of Asian Female Artists (Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, 2014), My Father is Over the Ocean. Shanghai Postscript. (Osage Gallery, Shanghai, 2014) etc. She has been awarded with Hong Kong Arts Development Awards 2013 - Award for Young Artist (Visual Arts) from Hong Kong Arts Development Council. Her works are collected by Hong Kong Museum of Art, M+ Museum and private collectors. She works and lives in Hong Kong. She is a part-time lecturer at the Department of Fine Arts, Chinese University of Hong Kong.