JULY 8 – AUGUST 13, 2023
OPENING RECEPTION: SUN., JULY 9, 5:30 – 8PM
gathering
33 Asianish artists exhibit
Curated by Cecile Chong and Sophia Ma
This extensive group exhibition features work by 33 members of Asianish, a community of artists and art professionals of varying Asian identities, formed in 2018. They continue to gather around conversation, art, and food to share about code-switching in art contexts and the need for belonging in a country they call home.
The work on view - paintings, drawings, sculpture, and video work - represents the current diversity in art-making and its process.
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS:
Kate Bae, Mimi Bai, SiSi Chen, Vivian Chiu, Priyanka Dasgupta & Chad Marshall, Caroline Garcia, Beatrice Glow, Kira Nam Greene, Gyun Hur, Evgenia Kim, Christina Yuna Ko, Alison Kuo, Julia Kwon, Joyce Yu-Jean Lee, Adelle Lin Yingxi, Jodie Lyn-Kee-Chow, zavé martohardjono, J Dellecave, Julia C Liu & Aviva Jaye, Chanel Matsunami Govreau, Lulu Meng, Tomo Mori, Natalia Nakazawa, Harley Ngai Grieco, Alex Paik, Maia Cruz Palileo, Risa Puno, Naomi Kawanishi Reis, Jaye Rhee, Jiwon Rhie, Annesofie Sandal, Amy Lee Sanford, and Seldon Yuan.
EVENTS DURING THE EXHIBITION:
· Sun, Jul 9, 5:30 – 8pm Opening Reception. A 12 min. performance by Chanel Matsunami Govreau at 6:30pm
· Sat. Jul 15, 2pm. Live and Virtual Community Tour with curator Sophia Ma and 4:30pm outdoor performance by Amy Lee Sanford.
· Sat. Jul 29, 5pm – Panel Discussion, moderated by Gabriel de Guzman
· Sun. Aug 13, 4 – 6pm – Closing Potluck
CURATOR BIOS:
Cecile Chong is a visual artist. She was born in Ecuador to Chinese parents and grew up in Quito and Macau. Her public art installation EL DORADO - The New Forty Niners was installed in each of the five boroughs of New York City (2017-2022). Solo exhibitions include Kates-Ferri Projects, Sugar Hill Children’s Museum, Selenas Mountain, ICFAC at Pinta Miami, Smack Mellon, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, BRIC, and more. Chong’s work is in the collections of El Museo del Barrio, the Museum of Chinese in America, The Rockefeller Foundation, The Center for Book Arts, Bryn Mawr Hospital, and Citibank Art Advisory. She has curated exhibitions at Tiger Strikes Asteroid, the Dedalus Foundation, and Emerson Gallery Berlin, Germany.
Sophia Ma is an independent curator and writer. Ma completed her master’s in art history and curatorial studies from Hunter College, CUNY, Fall 2020. Her thesis was on the relationship between the work and spiritual practices of the abstract painter Bernice Lee Bing (1936-1998). Ma also curated for Project Art Distribution's five-year traveling retrospective exhibition of 200 artists and 400 artworks from Walter Elwood Museum to St. John's University's Yeh Art Gallery. Her solo projects include the curation of Alison Kuo's "We Will Meet Again" at Think!Chinatown.
Ma has written for multiple online art publications, including The Brooklyn Rail, Art Papers, Hyperallergic, Art Spiel, Arte Fuse, and White Hot Magazine.
A concurrent exhibition with the work by Asianish members is taking place at Tiger Strikes Astroid TSA-NY, June 24-July 30, 2023: Participating artists: Heejung Cho, Rachelle Dang, Gi (Ginny) Huo, Sara Jimenez, Melissa Joseph, Kyoung eun Kang, Ae Yun Kim, zavé martohardjono, Kristel Baldoz, & Andrew Suseno, Sa'dia Rehman, Pauline Shaw, Winnie Sidharta Ambron, Maria Stabio, and Jia Sung.
GALLERY HOURS:
Thursday - Sunday, 1 - 6pm, or by appointment. Please email hanne@fivemyles.org, or call 718-783-4438.
DIRECTIONS:
Take 2, 3, or 4 trains to Franklin Avenue. Walk two blocks against the traffic on Franklin. Walk ¾ block to 558 St. Johns Place. FiveMyles is within easy walking distance from the Brooklyn Museum.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
FiveMyles is in part supported by the New York State Council for the Arts, Public Funds from the New York City Dept. of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, Council Member Crystal Hudson, The Jacques and Natasha Gelman Foundation, the Joseph Robert Foundation, and the William Talbott Hillman Foundation.