Asian American / Asian Research Institute
The City University of New York
Johanna Poethig, 68, is restoring her 40-year-old mural that includes Olympic diver Victoria Manalo Draves, one of many Filipino and Filipino American figures depicted on the wall of the San Lorenzo Ruiz Center in San Francisco.
Russell C. Leong, poet and editor, will read from his 2015 illustrated graphic poem, MothSutra, based on his living and working Manhattan’s Chinatown and the Bowery, and his study of Buddhism.
C.C. Wang: Lines of Abstraction recenters Wang’s extraordinary career in his own artistic practice to reveal an original quest for tradition and innovation in the global twentieth century. Spanning seven decades, the catalog focuses on the artist’s distinctive synthesis of Chinese ink painting and American postwar abstraction.
Join the Asian American / Asian Research Institute for a guided gallery tour of “C.C. Wang: Lines of Abstraction,” led by Margaret Liu Clinton. C. C. Wang is best known as a preeminent twentieth-century connoisseur and collector of pre-modern Chinese art, a reputation that often overshadows his own art.
Author Dorothy Moss will present on Hung Liu: Portraits of Promised Lands, a catalogue of the stunning work by the late contemporary Chinese American artist Hung Liu (1948-2021), who blended painting and photography to offer new frameworks for understanding portraiture in relation to time, memory, and history.
Mishkin Gallery at Baruch College/CUNY presents an artist talk with Ho Tzu Nyen, featuring a screening of The Critical Dictionary of Southeast Asia (cdosea.org).