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Yarnscapes: Mulyana's Environmental Tapestries poster 1
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Yarnscapes: Mulyana’s Environmental Tapestries

On View from September 13 to December 10, 2024
Charles B. Wang Center Skylight Gallery

Join us at the Charles B. Wang Center for an extraordinary exhibition featuring Mulyana, an acclaimed Indonesian artist celebrated for his vibrant and intricate knitted creations. Renowned for his imaginative use of crochet techniques, Mulyana creates large-scale installations and soft sculptures that evoke themes of nature, sustainability, and community. He transforms simple yarn into mesmerizing pieces of art, bringing to life colorful, whimsical installations through crochet, stitching, and knitting.

Mulyana’s passion for crochet was sparked when he attended Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia. He experiments with various techniques, materials, and ideas. Using durable and affordable materials like acrylic and polyester, often sourced from factory surplus, he creates intricate, modular pieces that combine to form larger, astounding artworks.

Mulyana takes pride in elevating crochet from a simple handicraft often associated with hobbyist activities to a respected form of contemporary fine art.

Experience the mesmerizing coral worlds of Mulyana, where each piece is a testament to the beauty and fragility of our marine environments.

We will also host the opening reception for this exhibition with Club Red, an informal gathering for all faculty and staff from every department across Stony Brook University, including both East and West Campuses. Join us for engaging conversations and getting to know each other better over refreshments, good company, and art!

All works are on loan from Sapar Contemporary, New York.

 

 

John W. Winkler: The Chinatown Etchings poster

John W. Winkler: The Chinatown Etchings

On View from March 1 to May 19, 2024
Charles B. Wang Center Skylight Gallery

John W. Winkler: The Chinatown Etchings explores forgotten scenes of San Francisco's Chinatown from 1916 to 1923. Through John W. Winkler's exceptional etchings, the exhibition unveils a crucial chapter in early Chinese immigration history in the United States.

Featuring 81 evocative etchings, the exhibition serves as a visual time capsule, capturing the essence of daily life in the heart of an early twentieth-century Chinatown. Winkler's work, distinguished by its unparalleled quality, offers a unique lens to rediscover the narratives of this vibrant community during a pivotal immigration period. Winkler's etchings transcend artistry, becoming historical documents that reveal the experiences, struggles, and resilience of those who called Chinatown home. The intricacy and depth of his lines convey not only artistic skill but also a profound connection to his subjects.

Curated by A. Rex Rivolo, director of Roving Sands Fine Arts, with all works on loan from the A. Rex Rivolo Collection and the Martin Levine Collection.

Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month

 

 

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Park Dae Sung: Ink Reimagined

On View from September 14 to December 10, 2023
Charles B. Wang Center Skylight Gallery, Zodiac Gallery

The Charles B. Wang Center presents Park Dae Sung: Ink Reimagined, an exhibition that features the works of Park Dae Sung, an innovative artist who transforms meditative observation into monumental artworks that revitalize Korean brush and ink techniques for modern audiences.

The exhibition captures the essence of the Korean-born Park’s artistic practice that is inspired by a deep contemplation of traditional East Asian art and the diversity of styles—contemplative, dramatic, tranquil, and powerful—that exist in the ink medium.

Viewers will walk away from his work with a newfound understanding of what it means to find beauty in what is old and with a fresh perspective on humanity’s contemporary relationships with nature, identity, and homeland. Park’s art presents an imaginative reinterpretation of history that, in turn, encourages a more progressive and stirring vision of the future.

A fully illustrated publication titled Park Dae Sung: Ink Reimagined is available for sale.

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Purchase a copy here

Park Dae Sung: Ink Reimagined is organized by Jinyoung A. Jin, director of Asian art and culture at the Charles B. Wang Center, with the special support from the Gana Foundation for Arts and Culture, as well as the generous support from the Korea Foundation.

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The Splendor of Bamboo: Japanese Contemporary Baskets

The Splendor of Bamboo: Japanese Contemporary Baskets

On View from March 9, 2023 to May 31, 2023
Charles B. Wang Center Skylight Gallery, Zodiac Gallery

The aesthetic beauty of woven Japanese bamboo baskets has been praised and acknowledged for centuries. To this day, bamboo baskets are an integral and cherished part of the flower arrangement (ikebana) and tea ceremony in Japan. The Charles B. Wang Center celebrates the extraordinary beauty and intricate craftsmanship of Japanese bamboo baskets with a new generation of Japanese artists who produce functional, sculptural, and refined works with their individual sensibility and creativity. Twenty-seven baskets on display reflect the longstanding basket-weaving traditions and modern transformations of Japanese basketry with advanced plaiting skills and experimentation with new shapes.

All works are on loan from Courtesy of TAI Modern.

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Curated by Jinyoung A. Jin, director of cultural programs at the Charles B. Wang Center, the treasures in this exhibition take visitors on a remarkable journey across regions and time.