untitled (GBK04052026) was part of the exhibition “Penumbra: Beyond The Uncanny Valley” at Ortega y Gasset Projects, curated by Austin Johnson and Peter Kelly
@p.ete.rk.ell.y@proudfamilythemesong@oygprojects
Turned 30, steak for 2, and maybe a gift or two, yay! Day barely passed and I’m already panicking about 40. Fought too much to prove what doesn’t matter. Thought only a little bit sad, about“Time” being an uncontrollable invisible electric current moving through your body. Maybe 20 is all cringy and naive… but who gives a fuck? (Maybe just a little?)
||||||||: Got The Eight of Wands for my 30!
Opening Saturday, April 19th from 5–7pm @ 52 Allen — ‘War Goes Straight to Their Tummies’ curated by wei featuring work by Peggy Chiang, Mariana Ramos Ortiz, and Jung Won Lee.
April 19th: Opening Performance 6 PM by Femi Shonuga-Fleming.
May 10th: Tofu Activation by Helen Ip.
“War Goes Straight to Their Tummies” is a group exhibition that explores the concept of Abjection, drawing from a mistranslation of the French phrase “la guerre porte aux ovaires” in Julia Kristeva’s Power of Horror: An Essay on Abjection. The phrase, which translates more accurately as “women in wartime,” was once misinterpreted as “war goes straight to the tummies” — a visceral, bodily reconfiguration that speaks to the physicality of trauma, miscommunication, and interpretation.
Each artist in the exhibition responds to this twice-translated notion of Abjection through site-specific practices, engaging the gallery space as a site of rupture, decay, resistance, and renewal.
@peggy__wendy@la.habichuela@leewondear@sadnoise_@herroherroherren
Laughing, Running, Clapping, Crying, Numbing, Sneezing, Blinking, Circling, Stepping, Sleeping, Strolling, Cutting, Spinning, Moving, Making, and wanting to disappear and show up simultaneously… Survived bit over 2 years in Brooklyn now, after many allergy seasons and sickness, We are still here, just being.
Thank you for being part of my life near and far. I hope you are here with me in 2025 as well.
(Showering by new roommate’s care everyday, and gifted a new portrait before cutting my long hair(2020-2024).)
📸 @zhangzhidong_ at Prospect Park.
🫴🫳 YOU’RE INVITED!
Rhythm of Touch is a multimedia exhibition and sonic exploration investigating forms of “being with” others. The exhibition features two site-specific installations by wei and Katie Hubbell and is curated by Elisa Gutiérrez Eriksen.
🪩 SAVE THE DATE!
I will present two new ensemble performances and few new works for this exhibition. Really have been sweating out in studio for the past couple months, can’t wait to share with you.
📢 August 1st at 7:00 PM
📢 August 11th at 4:00 PM
✨Plus you don’t wanna miss this all stars line up. 💫 August 1st performance: @hyo_ju_cheon@tianyisun_@cykkai 💫 August 11th performance: @_sbae__@winnientl@cykkai 💫 Graphic by @karefullee
See you all soon
Xoxo
Below Grand is thrilled to be joined by our newest team member, wei wang! Please join us in welcoming wei to the gallery as we are incredibly excited to have them on board!
wei received an MFA in Printmaking from the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, RI, and a BFA in New Media from the Academy of Art University in San Francisco, CA. They have exhibited in group exhibitions nationally and internationally, including at LeRoy Neiman Gallery (New York, NY), All Street Gallery (New York, NY), ICA MECA&D (Portland, ME), ChaShaMa (New York, NY), Root Division (San Francisco, CA), and more. They have participated in numerous artist residencies and fellowships, including NARS Foundation (New York, NY), Anderson Ranch Arts Center (Snowmass, CO), Art Center Residency, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council (New York, NY), Haystack Mountain School of Craft (Deer Isle, ME), University of California Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz, CA), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco, CA), Edition/Basel (Basel, Switzerland), and Santa Reparata International School of Art (Florence, Italy). Their works are collected by The Thomas J. Watson Library of The Metropolitan Museum, The Library of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the RISD Museum, The Wattis Institute, Kent State University, MAPC, and more.
wei is a long-time collaborator of the San Francisco-based International Artists Collective, Futurefarmers.
Photo Credit: Yingheng Huang & Yeh Che
“untitled (tape)” series are on view @risdmuseum in the Paula and Leonard Granoff Gallery as part of the “Poetry of Everyday Life” section of Art and Design from 1900 to Now. These prints were acquired by the Department of Print, Drawings and Photographs in 2022. So very pleased to see them framed and up for view. Stop by before September this year to see.
LABEL COPY
These screenprints on handmade mulberry paper feature images of blue tape playfully expressing itself through different lengths, shapes, and severity of tear. wei Wang’s composition centers and isolates each piece, granting us a new way of viewing material typically used in a supporting role. In Wang’s work, ephemeral materials such as the blue tape become metaphorical time capsules of memory and identity. The artist explains:
My approach to creating is through the lens of being an alien and queer in unfamiliar environments and given spaces. . . . Highlighting the integrity of my chosen materials and sources of information are a big part of my creative process, especially when most of the materials are commonly considered secondary and ephemeral.
–Lana Wang, THAD Fellow, Prints, Drawings, and Photographs Department, 2023;
RISD BFA 2024, Illustration
Special thanks to Jan Howard @janhowardrisd and Conor Moynihan @cg.moy for making this happen, and kind words from Lana Wang. You can read more about these prints on risdmuseum.org
Photo by Moy Chuong @see_ew_later
A very late recap of my time @narsfoundation
Still processing how much happened after 2 seasons, 2 exhibitions and 2 amazing cohorts, I would not trade this experience with anything else.
Thank you everyone who passed by my studio, had coffee/lunch/dinner/snacks with me, came to the openings and open studios, critiqued my work, took a selfie in front the mirror, watch my silly little procrastinating stories, shared some juicy gossips and many many many many more… really, thank you for your support and your presences.
Special thanks to the staff team, Program Manager Katherine @katherine.plourde Program Coordinator Eve @arthistory555 and Curatorial Fellow Shuang Cai @fkialmostforgot
P.s. All New Work and Recording are now live on my website, and a fellowship interview via NARS’s website.
Image 1: A nice bright shadow casted on the 3rd floor.
Image 2: Collaborative waving/braiding workshop with 2024 Season I Cohort.
Image 3: W.I.P. Untitled (panel &panel).
Image 4: Live Performance at 2023 NARS Foundation Christmas Fundraising (image credit: @lau_wai_lau )
Image 5: A pants I made during a severe procrastinating week.
Image 6: Sunset projected through 4th floor window. (Hence the Sunset Neighborhood)
“Rope Walk” with Alex in Portland last Friday (Oct 06/23). We walked from ICA MECA to East End Beach and back via Congress Street, total of 5 and half hours of walking, laughing, making ropes, beating fibers and making papers.
Every futurefarmers project is a special project, thank you Amy for having me.
Special thanks to the kind Faculties, students and staff at @mecaart and @icaatmeca
“Rope Walk” is part of the exhibition “Liveable Worlds” curated by Julie Poitras and Sabine Malcom at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Maine College of Art & Design. Now on view through December 15, 2023.
Image Credit: Sabine Malcom
Image 1:
“Density Saw”
2023
Found Mahogany, Nylon Thread, Glow PLA Filament.
Image 2:
Performance score — “Under the Table Saw”
2023
Pencil, Charcoal, Cotton Paper.
(*Sound piece available via www.itswei.me/sound)
New experiments @andersonranchartscenter with great supports from @emilggorman@jamie_hrmn@tedtart
