CB1 Gallery
207 W 5th St
213.806.7889
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May 29, 2010 – June 27, 2010
Wednesdays–Thursdays (noon–6pm)
Fridays (noon–7:30pm)
Saturdays–Sundays (noon–6pm)
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“Chicago-based mixed media sculptor and installation artist Fang Ling-An remixes elements of the traditional and the contemporary, the spiritual and the sociopolitical, the craft-based and fine arts in her latest body of work, Everything is Stitching Together Simultaneously, also her first one-person show in LA. The exhibition is consisting of a large-scale replica of a reusable shopping bag commonplace in urban China; modern and industrial interpretations of the fancy clothing, and deconstructed ceremonial architecture, of childhood's spiritual rites; and a series of haunting, almost frantic embroidered pictures made by flipping the fabric and exhibiting the chaotic, functional innards of a now-obscured, but surely quite lovely, pastoral. Generally, the work speaks to a hybrid sensibility that pokes fun at modernity, pines for lost histories, and vice versa. Specifically, it also indirectly questions practices in those same historical traditions which marginalized the role and value of female children, as well as the Chinese rush to embrace western commercial fetishes — possibly to their own detriment.”
Shana Nys Dambrot, Flavorpill
CB1 Gallery says:
CB1 Gallery proudly presents its first solo exhibition of the work of artist Fang Ling-An, Everything is Stitching Together Simultaneously. Deeply aware of her family's historic and turbulent journey from Mainland China to Taiwan, Fang Ling-An has consciously reflected upon issues of displacement and sense of belonging that is common to most Chinese immigrants. As a result, her pieces center on issues of migration, displacement, tradition and identity. Convinced that artists have missions, Chicago-based artist Fang Ling-An's quest is to develop and resurrect Chinese philosophical and aesthetic views that are set in a contemporary framework. "Determining what the true merits of Chinese traditions and philosophies are is something Chinese artists must decide for themselves and transmit to the rest of the world. I want to make art a tool to revive culture, and hope it will enable Chinese to become conscious about their heritage again."
