Skills he originally learned by brushing water on toilet paper during Mao Zedong's Cultural Revolution later developed into skills that earned him a bronze medal at the Chinese 6th National Exhibition of Fine Art. Since , he's been teaching at Eckerd. As artists, we all enjoy the design and process of art making. Yet, I am not satisfied only by the visual sensations. Watching a shirt from the debris of the WTC site, a shoe in the rubbles of a bombed village, and a skirt of a sunken refugee washed to shore, I am daunted by the stories behind those colors, lines, shapes, textures and materials. They are skins that humanity left behind. Here is a video of work in progress.
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KIRK KE WANG
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Our coronavirus coverage is free for the first 24 hours. Find the latest information at tampabay. Please consider subscribing or donating. For artists, identity is often the muse, the jumping-off point to explore the concept in a number of different directions. Three exhibitions at the Morean Arts Center are doing just that. It also drives home the idea that no person is one- dimensional. But in the other two exhibitions, artists Kirk Ke Wang and Perri Neri explore identity through the lens of social issues and with styles that blend abstraction with figuration and fleshed-out concepts. He explores natural disasters, climate change, refugee crises, imbalance of wealth and how it impacts the planet. Wang was inspired by images in the media of abandoned pieces of clothing after tragedy.
Born in Shanghai, China and living mostly in Tampa Bay, sometimes in NYC, for over 30 years, I focus my art on issues that conflict my experiences with today's mainstream typecasts, from the standpoint of a diaspora. In my art practice, contents overrule forms and methods. I experiment with a wide range of media, such as painting, sculpture, photography, video, conceptual, performance and installation art, etc. Although oscillating between them, I intend to weave a tapestry of my vision of the world, led by a consistent thread: the fear of inexorable cataclysm. For example I recently exhibited at the Ringling Museum of Art, using materials collected from migrants. Like other artists, I enjoy the design and process of art making. Yet, I am not satisfied only by the visual sensations. Watching a shirt from the debris of the WTC site, a shoe in the rubbles of a bombed village, and a skirt of a sunken refugee washed to shore, I am daunted by the stories behind those colors, lines, shapes, textures and materials. They are skins that humanity left behind.
