Jiaming You: Looking Out
@ Chinese American Museum of Chicago
238 W 23rd St, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Sunday, March 9th, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, April 13th
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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