Reflection Paper No.2

In Action no...

Itch explores the relationship between technology and daily human experience with a motorized arm that extends from within the gallery’s wall, moving up and down while holding a projector that shows a desperately scratching pair of hands....

Baby Shoes, Never Worn is part of photographer John Houck’s series of restrained still-life photographs capturing objects from his childhood...

Milena Bonilla’s discursive practice explores connections among economics, territory, and politics through everyday interventions...

Kwan Sheung Chi’s work One Million is a video work depicting the counting of bills...

Federico Herrero’s energetic paintings reflect his experiences on the streets of his native San José, Costa Rica, and in the surrounding tropical landscape...

Though the title might suggest an Adonis, Jeffry Mitchell’s The Swimmer (2012) is a squat, jolly man with a protuberant belly...

Canton Novelty by Fang Lu captures the adventure of a group of three girls, Ruohan, Lily and Zoe on a summer vacation in Guangzhou, China...

Lu has developed an oeuvre that consists of characters in bizarre situations...

In Man and Pet (2012), two benign ceramic figures smile sweetly upward...

In his video work Beyond Geography , Li dramatizes the role of the artist-as-imitator to the point of sheer parody...

Untitled #242 is part of Houck’s Aggregates Series, which uses digital tools to manipulate chosen sets and pairs of colors, creating colorful index sheets, bathed in colors and lines...

No World is an action-filled video work filmed inside an abandoned museum in the Songzhuang area outside Beijing...

Retired Pillar represents the death and deterioration of legacy of colonial Shanghai...

Ben Shaffer’s Ben Deroy (2007) is part performance, part self-portrait, and part spiritual vision...

In Made In Heaven , we are face to face with a sculptural apparition, a divine visitation in the artist’s studio...

Although seemingly unadorned at first glance, Yang Xinguang’s sculptural work Phenomena (2009) employs minimalist aesthetics as a means of gesturing towards the various commonalities and conflicts between civilization and the natural world...

In the work Cinema , Fang Lu explores in a meticulous yet un-dramatic — almost casual — way of how “the self” in our today’s life is a controlled and staged construction of oneself...

After engaging primarily with video and photography for more than a decade, Chen turned to painting to explore the issue of urban change and memories—both personal and collective...