Please Welcome Project 2048's First Two Artists
CELLspace welcomes Norah Hoover and Sherry Wong to San Francisco, and to Project 2048! They are the first two artists of what CELL hopes will be a long list of ongiong arts residency rotations.
My work mixes costume design, performance and photography. I collect found materials to make costumes and installations to be worn and inhabited - tents and dresses - and photograph them in action. I explore the way girl, animal, ornament, and image interact. My thesis work was based on the idea of wearable explosions, and my current work is a series of ghost dresses; I am moving from recycled synthetics to found organic materials. Photography is the center of all the work I do. My motifs, colors, and process are all anchored in the history of vernacular photography, its idiosyncratic rendering of containment and desire. I make "instant" images around my textiles using expired film, disposable cameras and Polaroids. I also document artists, musicians, and performers, and take "half candid" portraits: people interacting with each other and camera. I plan to document many of the diverse and vibrant performances going on at Cellspace, as well as the day-to-day of the residency at Project 2048.
Sherry Wong paints portraits of herself and friends on traditional wood panels. She often portrays herself as the hero in a confessional narrative where the occurrences in her life are sublimated into an epic story. For 2048 she will be painting group portraits of the various creative communities in San Francisco. In conjunction with the presentation of this body of work, the artists and musicians depicted in the paintings will be invited to show and perform spotlighting the unique communal spirit of the bay area.
Sherry Wong was born in 1978, and raised in Turkey and England. She received a BA in Studio Art at Smith College, and lives and works in Brooklyn and San Francisco. She has had two solo shows with I-20 gallery in New York, as well as solo shows at Galeria 13 in Mexico City, Vienna Fair in Austria and Akus Gallery in Connecticut. She has also shown in Athens, Berlin, Paris, Cologne, Moscow, Shanghai, Tokyo and Turin.
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