The work I create is an attempt to make physical manifestations of vague, ethereal, and intangible things. My installations have touched upon a range of themes and preoccupations from gossiping and telling lies to flight, falling, and absence. One of my most recent installations was entitled Small White Lies. It was formed of 77 small […]

My practice consists mostly of making installations. I am not interested in making new objects, but rather in creating new experiences. The idea of “temporary work” is important to me as a mirror of the transitory nature of the human condition. I am very sensitive to the social-political-spiritual atmosphere of a given time or moment. […]

April Street’s paintings bubble over like an interpretation of lyrics, made richer by years of poetic flexibility and lubricous perceptions. Her paintings embed watercolor bloom effects that appear to be dredged through gauzy light, reminiscent of a 70s album cover, fashioned by a transported courtly Fleming on acid. These trippy surfaces connote a cut-and-paste methodology, […]

A partnership of five international arts organizations, Museum as Hub is a new model for curatorial practice and institutional collaboration established to enhance our understanding of contemporary art. Both a network of relationships and an actual physical site located in the fifth-floor New Museum Education Center, Museum as Hub is conceived as a flexible, social […]

“Organic movements” are what I always try to pursue in my performance art. Everything changes in this world: society, emotions, relationships, and countries. No one knows what happens tomorrow. But we know one thing for sure: good art does not equal best-selling art. An artist should hold up a bright hope. No matter what style […]

We assume that artists are of a different category to normal people, and they live a special life. As an artist and photographer, I’ve been trying to put myself in a general category of normal life. I create projects and series out of intimate life through my relationships or the roles I have to fulfill, […]

You might liken Columbus’ Chop Chop gallery to a Japanese bento box: it’s colorful and full of exotic experiences not always familiar to the Midwestern palette. Even though there are haphazard flavors thrown into the mix (a blind car mechanic? neon green walls? an electric guitar recital?), it’s an altogether consonant with experience. The main […]

Nothing is more pure than the anguish of a child. Pictures of children crying capture raw emotion: sputtering rage and profound loss. In many ways we’ve become desensitized to disturbing image. But the honesty of a child’s feelings is undeniable, and it draws you in to the photograph—perhaps because kids experience the kind of powerful […]

Much of my work involves some form of audience interaction. This may occur in the form of soliciting information that becomes part of a new piece, or creating sites of collaborative production, or it may occur in the form of public exchange and shared storytelling. I am not interested in simply documenting these interactive experiences; […]

I was born in a northern village in China in the 1970s. I spent my childhood in domestic violence. As I grew up, I was moving around, like a nomad. I never had a steady relationship. I suffered from illness, an abortion, unemployment, poverty, an unhappy marriage, childbirth, and betrayal. These experiences make up half […]