YIYUN CHEN (Cleveland, OH), Whispers in the Breeze 微風細語
GHISLAINE AND LANDO FREMAUX-VALDEZ (Lubbock, TX), In the Farthest Reaches
April 21 – May 24

Artist Reception and Artist Talks: Saturday May 24, 1-3 p.m.

Yiyun Chen’s photographic project, Whispers in the Breeze, began as a pastime and was prompted by the artist’s wandering as a pedestrian along Lake Erie. The project became a ritual, and then a process of self-reflection and self-discovery for the artist as an Asian immigrant – exploring the relationship between people, environment and society.

The collaborative work of partners Ghislaine and Lando Fremaux-Valdez is on a gargantuan scale, executed in gouache and pastel on paper. Each drawing naturalistically portrays one or both of the artists’ bodies (sometimes many times over), but deranges them through fragmentation, anatomical corruption, and/or pictorial chaos.

Captions; Yiyun Chen, Future, pigment print – photography, 2022; Ghislaine and Lando Fremaux-Valdez, Washing Feet / Hair Bath, Pastel and gouache on paper, 2023