August 2024: Meet the Artists
Anastasia Komar, Catalina Ouyang, and Yongqi Tang
Anastasia Komar
Anastasia Komar (b. 1986) is a New-York based artist with an MA in Architecture and Environmental Design from Moscow Institute of Architecture. Referencing science, theology, and history, Komar juxtaposes acrylic painting executed in short, vivid, and luminescent brushstrokes with glass polymer sculptures that echo forms at once biomolecular, mythological, and mammalian. Opaque and forgiving substrates rather than unyielding representational planes, the paintings play host to the hybrid, quasi-corporeal sculptures that protrude from the edges and envelop the surface, suggesting a parasitic or symbiotic relationship.
Komar has had solo exhibitions at Management in New York, and BANK in Shanghai, China. Group exhibitions include Harper's, East Hampton, Van Doren Waxter/Kristen Lorello, New York, the Gallery of the School of Visual Arts in New York, the CICA Museum in South Korea, and has executed several site-specific projects in New York and California.
Catalina Ouyang
Catalina Ouyang's practice engages object-making, interdisciplinary environments, and time-based projects. Their hands-on approach to materiality is accompanied by a research practice focused on myth, history, literature, philosophy, and poetry. In their work, Ouyang address how a subject orients in physical space and sociopolitical space. Through abstraction and fragmentation of the figure, they propose the body as a politicized landscape. Their work over the last two years has involved sculpture, conceptual gestures, performance, music, writing, and filmmaking, and uses a wide range of material approaches including carving, hand-molding, assemblage, casting, and drawing to interrogate the psychosomatic links between trauma, memory, and the body.
Ouyang’s work has been presented in solo and group shows at Night Gallery (LA), SculptureCenter (NYC), the Aldrich Museum (Ridgefield, CT), Lyles & King, (NYC), Jeffrey Deitch Gallery (NYC and LA), Simon Lee Gallery (London), Asia Art Center (Taipei), Galerie Kandlhofer (Vienna), and others. Their work is in the collections of the Perez Art Museum, Brooklyn Museum, Cantor Arts Center, Nasher Sculpture Center, Columbus Museum of Art, Kadist Foundation, and others. Ouyang is the recipient of the 2023 Stone & Deguire Award, a 2020 Puffin Foundation grant, and a 2011 Elizabeth Greenshields grant. They have attended residencies at Shandaken: Storm King, Vermont Studio Center, and Atlantic Center for the Arts, and were a 2020-2021 Smack Mellon Fellow. Ouyang received an MFA from Yale University and lives in New York City. They are represented by Lyles & King in New York and Make Room Gallery in Los Angeles.
Yongqi Tang
Having studied and worked between China and America, Yongqi Tang’s works have been influenced by the drastically different cultural and ideological contexts of the two countries. Interested in how the interaction with the environing world would affect our existence, she questions and deconstructs her roles in both private and public spaces by investigating the social construction of identities through the act of painting and drawing. Her works examine the fluidity of our self-images and relate to the broader human experience of the ambiguousness of identities such as gender, sexuality, and nationality. The objective of her works is to reinterpret the categories into which we are born, and rearticulate the discourse around them.
Tang received her MFA in Painting and Drawing (2022), and her BA in Painting and Drawing (2019) from the University of Washington in Seattle, WA. Recent solo exhibitions have been mounted at Jupiter Contemporary in Miami, FL; T293 Gallery in Rome, Italy; and Specialist Gallery in Seattle, WA. She has also been exhibited in numerous group shows such as Cruel Spring at Latitude Gallery in New York City, NY (2023); David Zwirner’s Platform Online Viewing Room (2023); and Culture II at Strada World in New York City, NY (2022). She is the recipient of the Bernie Funk Artist Scholarship (2022), the Puget Sound Group of Northwest Artists Scholarship Award (2022), and the Boyer and Elizabeth Bole Gonzales Scholarship for Excellence (2021). Her art has been covered in numerous outlets, including New American Paintings, All SHE Makes, Maake Magazine, and elsewhere.
