Ngô transforms overlooked electronic components into sculptures and cyanotypes, honoring the refugee labor behind the technology we rely on.
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Ngô transforms overlooked electronic components into sculptures and cyanotypes, honoring the refugee labor behind the technology we rely on.
08.03.2025 18:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Writing about artist Huongngo.bsky.social felt like uncovering a hidden circuit—one that connects labor, migration and creativity in ways we don’t always see. news.ucsb.edu/2024/021652/...
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He’s joined by artists like Corita Kent, Kate Laster, Guadalupe Rosales, Georgina Treviño, Christine Sun Kim and Rose D’Amato, whose work spans painting, print, signs and sound. What happens when words don’t mean what they seem?
On view Jan. 18–April 27, 2025.
Just wrote about Public Texts. The show features 20+ artists using text to challenge perception, critique culture and reflect California’s evolving identity. Barry McGee’s graffiti-inspired work isn’t just meant to be read—it’s meant to be experienced. ow.ly/LEYS50UZNou
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31.01.2025 19:18 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0She grew up in Japanese occupied Manchuria. Her POV was radical, anti-imperialist — unfit to be exhibited in Japan — but she kept painting. Here, I talk about her unique power with the California art museum that just acquired the largest collection of her work outside Asia
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