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Opening Reception: Victoria Yau & Nick Dong
Qualia Contemporary Art is pleased to announce Nick Dong: Auspicious, an immersive solo exhibition of 13 works by the Oakland-based artist. Dong’s technologically engaged work reflects his Taiwanese-American identity and Tibetan Buddhist upbringing, referencing spirituality and heritage through a distinctly contemporary lens. At the exhibition's core are the first 11 works of an ongoing series of 88 works entitled “Auspicious 88”, which is set to be complete by 2028. Two separate series of pencil and ballpoint pen drawings on acrylic will complement this monumental project in the gallery.
Qualia Contemporary Art is pleased to announce Victoria Yau: Mountain Cloud, a solo exhibition curated by Dr. Ellen Huang, Ph.D, former visiting scholar at Stanford’s Center for East Asian Studies and associate professor of art history and material culture at Art Center College of Design. Shanghai-born artist Victoria Yau (1939-2023) was one of the earliest Asian-American contemporary abstract artists, painting from the late 1950s to the late 2010s. During her lifetime, her work was shown at the Smithsonian, the Art Institute of Chicago, and numerous other museums and galleries throughout the United States, China, Taiwan, and Japan. Yau’s oeuvre has been rediscovered posthumously thanks to the archiving and preservation efforts of her son, Philip Yau, and the in-depth research of curator Ellen Huang with graduate student Beryl Zhou.
Following recent exhibitions at Stanford University’s East Asian Studies Library, at Pen+Brush—a 130-year-old gallery for women artists—in New York, and a major acquisition by Northwestern University’s Block Museum, Qualia Contemporary Art is delighted to showcase over 50 years of work by Yau as her place in the art historical canon continues to be established.
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