29 January - 30 April 2009
Breathe Artist-in-Residence Christine Wong Yap, a multi-disciplinary visual artist from San Francisco, California, will open her studio to the public from April 23 - 30, 2009, with a public preview on Thursday, 23 April, 5.30-7.30 pm.
Christine Wong Yap's art practice is an exploration of the competing pulls of optimism and pessimism. Using metaphors such as dark and light or words and meanings, Wong Yap explores the dialectical relationship between optimism and pessimism and its influence on our experience of the world. Her explorations take the form of installation, sculpture, multiples and works on paper.
Wong Yap, who has been in residence at the Chinese Arts Centre since 29 January, has immersed herself in art activity throughout the Northwest. She's presented her work to MA students from local universities and reviewed art events and exhibitions from Barrow to Birmingham on her blog. She has also engaged in a self-directed course of study spanning British commemoratives, Roman typography, Mancunian slang and temperments, institutional signage, President Obama's optimism, time perspectives and utopias. Her recent studio activities include text-based drawings, a installation of lights and shadows, and a light-box integrated into the Centre's architecture. During the Open Studio, Wong Yap will share works-in-progress and release a new artist's multiple.
Christine Wong Yap lives in Oakland, California and graduated with BA Fine Art and MA Fine Art from California College of Arts. She has exhibited widely in the San Francisco Bay Area has also participated in group shows in New York, Philadelphia, Washington State, Manila, Osaka, and Cumbria, UK. Her work is in the Alameda County Art Collection. Her community work has seen her leading on 17 mural projects across the US. Wong Yap is an Affiliate Artist at the Headlands Centre for the Arts in Sausalito, CA.
