Asian American Activist Art
October 22, 2008
The Chinese Culture Center’s new exhibition highlights the substantial role of printmaking and graphics as a powerful means of expression for Asian American activists.
Organized by guest curator and scholar Margo Machida, Icons of Presence: Asian American Activist Art showcases graphic art and posters from the 1970s and 1980s as well as work by Jim Dong, Nancy Hom and Leland Wong, who all influenced San Francisco’s Asian American arts movement.
The exhibit aims to put the work of the three Chinese American artists in a wider context to emphasize the range of influences that have shaped their art and cultural activism.
It was conceived as a counterpart to the survey exhibition of Asian American art, Asian/ American/Modern Art: Shifting Currents, 1900-1970, which opens on October 25 at the de Young Museum in San Francisco. The de Young exhibit does not include art past 1970, the period where Asian American art and cultural politics surged.
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The exhibit is on display from October 23 to January 3.
Chinese Culture Center
750 Kearny Street, Third Floor (inside the Hilton Hotel)
San Francisco
Gallery Hours: Tue-Sat, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
Free admission
c-c-c.org or (415) 986-1822
Opening reception: Oct. 23 at 6:30 p.m.
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Icons of Presence: Asian American Activist Art curated by Margo Machida brings deserving attention to 3 outstanding artists, Nancy Hom, Leland Wong, and Jim Dong. Their art gives voice to the cry from within the Asian American community to bring social justice to those who have suffered and were invisible in the American dream. May they continue to produce more provocative work that reminds us to move forwards towards artistic, social, and political equity.