Event

Aesthetic Blitz

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
Presented by Asian American Women Artists Association's Emerging Curators Program and presented as part of API Cultural Center's 19th annual United States of Asian America Festival 2016.

"I see artwork and writing coming together in an organic way because the fact is that we all use both methods of communication to express ourselves on a daily basis, and that expression amounts to who we are. AESTHETIC BLITZ is an exhibition in which female artists and poets of mostly Asian American ethnicity showcase work that is central to not only who they are as an artist, but who they are as a person in a large scale collage-like form. The concept of an aesthetic blitzkrieg is born out of the way that our minds process identity. We latch onto an image, symbol or word and make it our own in ways that are wholly personal to the individual creator, and this occurs in rapid succession. By presenting all work in a collage-like structure where things overlap or layer in ways that still preserve the integrity of each art piece in itself, I hope to visually inundate the audience with aestheticismas if in an actual explosion where things are fragmented and connected in new ways. This exhibition celebrates how we come to know ourselves: as Asians, as women, as people!" -Kelsay Meyers, Curator

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS
Maria T. Allocco
Jasmine An
Sabrina Brett
Rebecca Eckland
Joyce Mortel Familara
Gillian Hamel
CK Itamuro
Rupinder Kahlon
Fernanda de Lima
Kyung Sook Moir
Nivedita Ojha
Judy Shintani
Shizue Siegel
Jennifer Sinquefield
Marissa Trierweiler
Nathalie Vanderlinden
Laura Ming Wong
Nellie Wong
Shelley Wong
...and more!