BANK is pleased to present two artists from the Asian diaspora whose work has recentlygarnered overdue attention in NYC and beyond. These two artists grew up in the US yet are of different generations and back- grounds who’s shared and contrasting sensibilities make for a stimulating aesthetic dialogue around cul- ture, nature and the quotidian.
Michael Lin (b.1964, based in Taiwan and Brussels) has a solo project at the Metropolitan Museum of Art , which comes on the heels of a large-scale installation at MoCA Toronto.
Ching-Ho Cheng, whose death by AIDS in 1989 cut short his prolific artistic career, was recently the subject of a solo project at David Zwirner Gallery and is now being critically reconsidered by many institutions and the market. Ching-Ho’s sensibilities relied on his experiments in the subconscious, interest in Daoism and his own alienated experience of being a gay, Asian artist in NYC of the 1960s and 70s. The exquisite and transcendental nature of his work offers a unique personal and intimate take on form and shadow within a physical and mental space.
For this presentation we will be showing his gouache works of the 1970s and 1980s. Michael Lin, an early proponent of Relational Aesthetics who sees his expanded painting work as a way to foster and frame social interactivity, will be showing his “000” series and other works that act as quotations to his largescale work and poses questions of the vernacular and cultural signification.
