Now – March 31, 2013
World Financial Center
200 Vessey Street
New York, NY 10281
Drawing on ready-made iconography from our urban landscape, Amy Kao’s work creates a metaphorical “second skin” to the surfaces of the cityscape. It employs ubiquitous subjects from our evolving and rapidly building surroundings, such as billboard structures, construction equipment, piping infrastructures, billowing clouds and silhouettes of trees and birds. Together, these often overlooked but profoundly quotidian motifs render an unconscious view of the city in motion. They are further interleaved with symbols of systems and infrastructures that represent the city in abstract, such as architectural and urban planning patterns. The hybridity of imageries in distorted scales captures a glimpse of our daily lives and a moment of our wandering thoughts as inhabitants in the cityscape.
With a background in Continental philosophy, Amy Kao’s work speaks to experiences of nature as markers of history and culture. Her work has been exhibited in many public venues, such as the Busan Biennale, Korea; Brooklyn Museum of Art, NY; P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, NY; Asian American Art Centre, NY and Apexart, NY. Solo exhibitions include Michael Steinberg Fine Art, NY and Venetia Kapernekas Gallery, NY. Kao is a recipient of residency fellowships at Yaddo, NY; MacDowell Colony, NH; Art Omi, NY and the Lower East Side Printshop, NY. Reviews of her work have appeared in publications such as the New York Times, the Financial Times and Art News. Born in Taipei, Taiwan in 1974, Kao received her BA from Sarah Lawrence College and currently lives and works in Brooklyn.
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