CLOSING: Exhibit: Fleeting Hues of Passage @ CAAC

By Chinese American Arts Council

Feb 7  |  Culture

Fleeting Hues of Passage by Edmund Bao and Wendy Wei at Gallery 456 at the Chinese American Arts Council – SoHo Events

Closing exhibit: February 7, 2025

Artists: Edmund Bao,  Wendy Wei
Location: Gallery 456

Exhibition Statement
The homeland, extending its gaze from the hazy past, becomes our sensuous archive that persistently reconfiguring the present. Wendy Wei and Edmund Bao, both as Chinese diasporic visual artists, intuit sophisticated visibility through their gentle, careful remaking of the “past”. Attuned to the uncanny moments concealed in the fading shadows of our memories, Wendy and Edmund craft a perception of “past” beyond mere symbolism attached to objects, instead as an open terrain performed through textures and lines, blending colors and melting contours.

In Wendy’s work, crosshatched opaque watercolor seems to mimic a weaving texture or flickering old TV screens; multiple mediums are almost crowdedly, densely layered together, forming an overwhelming dreamscape, from which we cannot evade yet to which we have never ventured. Edmund, with improvisational moves of acrylic and charcoal on raw canvas, sketches out a playground for emerging gestures, movements, and visages. Restless confrontations come forth in the much-suspended, alternative sequence of rituals and practices.

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