Jiaming You: Looking Out: Panel Discussion
@ Chinese American Museum of Chicago
238 W 23rd St, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Sunday, April 27th, from 3PM - 4:30PM
On view through Sunday, April 27th
We’re excited to share this off-site program as a part of EXPO ART WEEK, in celebration of the city’s incredible contemporary arts ecosystem.
This Sunday, April 27, curator/writer Cristobal Alday and gallerist Francine Almeda of Tala Chicago will be helping us close out the current Spotlight exhibition, Looking Out, with the show’s artist Jiaming You.
Together, they’ll reflect on building creative networks and community care across Chicago’s BIPOC art scenes.
Join us for this special panel discussion, “Walking the Joint Path”
Sunday, April 27 | 3–5 PM, CAMOC, FL4
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The Chinese American Museum of Chicago’s (CAMOC) newest Spotlight Series exhibition will feature artist Jiaming You in Looking Out. The artist who is obsessed with the action of looking, challenges the audience to see her subjects as autonomous beings doing the looking rather than passive subjects being looked at. You’s thought-provoking exhibition includes some striking, large-sized paintings and installations and will run from March 9th to April 13th, 2025.
The opening reception will be held at CAMOC on Sunday, March 9th, 2025, from 2 – 5 p.m. CST with an artist talk starting at 3:30 p.m. A special panel discussion on the topic of building a Chicago BIPOC art community is scheduled for Sunday, March 30th from 3:30 – 5:00 p.m. Led by You, panelists will include Francine Almeda and Cristobal Alday. Admission to the exhibition and panel discussion is free with a suggested museum donation.
You’s work has focused on the social condition of people and how they are perceived, through challenging the traditional figure-ground relationship and blurring the boundary between them. In her newest work, subjects are looking out and mainly silhouetted. Beyond projections and stereotypes, viewers are asked what they see in the subject? Through elements contained both within and outside the outline of their figures, You’s work also raises the question, “To what extent of our self-presentation is shaped by our social context?”
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