Audrey Chan (born 1982) is a Chinese-American Los Angeles–based artist, writer, and educator known for her research-based projects that articulate political and cultural identities through her allegorical narrative and the feminist construct of "the personal is political."[1] Her works include paintings, digital compositions, installation, video, public performance, murals and symposiums.
Biography edit
Audrey Chan was born in 1982 in Chicago, Illinois. She received her Bachelor of Art degree from Swarthmore College in 2004 and a Master of Fine Arts degree from California Institute of the Arts 2007. In 2013, Chan received the Fellowship for Visual Artisists from the California Community Foundation (CCF) for her Los Angeles–based artistic contribution and commitment.[2] In the same year, she was also the grant recipient of the Artists' Resource for Completion for her collaborative work with Elana Mann.[3]
Career edit
Early in her career as an artist, Chan was an artist-in-residence at the Nantes School of Fine Arts, or École Régionale des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, in France. In France, Chan performed an artistic investigation of the official portrait of President Nicolas Sarkozy, a subject that sparked debate about the ownership of images and the delicate relationship between politics and art in French law. Her work was later published in the book Conseil juridique et artistique / Legal and Artistic Counsel.[4] As a writer, Chan has published a number of articles in the magazines East of Borneo and Afterall. These articles include "Reports from a Strange Democracy: Guillermo Gómez-Peña," which reviews the artistic performance of Guillermo Gómez-Peña,[5] and "Rupture and Continuity in Feminist Re-performance," which discusses the value of re-performance as a means of producing an embodied relationship with the past.[6] Besides, Chan is currently co-editor of the zine Would Be Saboteurs Take Heed which centers the voices of AAPI (Asian American and Pacific Islander) artists and writers. As an educator, Chan was a visiting faculty member of the California Institute of the Arts and a gallery teacher at the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles.[7]
Works edit
- Chinatown Abecedario: A Folk Taxonomy of L.A.'s Chinatown: In this video, Chan deconstructed Chinatown's shrouded myths and histories and performed the fundemetal of Chinese culture in Chinatown through the video Chinatown Abecedario: A Folk Taxonomy of L.A.'s Chinatown.[8] This video is also featured in the Chinese American Museum as part of its 2012 group exhibition.
- Chan's Mannese Theater: The Chan's Mannese Theater is the "3 Solo Projects: Audrey Chan, Elana Mann, Chan & Mann" at the Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design. This project is a video installation incorporating a painted theater and a video screening room that projects the video Chan & Mann's New Fantasy (The Video).[9]
- Metro Station Art: Chan is currently working ona public artwork for the new Regional Connector subway station in the historic Little Tokyo neighborhood of Downtown Los Angeles that will open in 2021.[10]
References edit
- ^ "Bio". Audrey Chan. Archived from the original on 2018-09-01. Retrieved 2017-03-04.
- ^ Foundation, California Community. "California Community Foundation Awards A Record $415,000 For 24 Artist Fellowships". www.prnewswire.com (Press release). Retrieved 2017-03-04.
- ^ ":: CCI :: ARC Grants ::". www.cciarts.org. Retrieved 2020-05-04.
- ^ Chan, Audrey (June 3, 2011). Conseil juridique et artistique / Legal and Artistic Counsel. France: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; Bilingual edition. ISBN 978-1463540340.
- ^ "Reports from a Strange Democracy: Guillermo Gómez-Peña". East of Borneo. Retrieved 2017-03-04.
- ^ Chan, Audrey; Grant, Alexandra; Mann, Elana (2013-06-01). "Rupture and Continuity in Feminist Re-performance". Afterall: A Journal of Art, Context and Enquiry. 33: 38–45. doi:10.1086/672018. ISSN 1465-4253. S2CID 191515457.
- ^ "Visiting Faculty". CalArts School of Art. Retrieved 2020-05-04.
- ^ Unterman, Phoebe. "'Deconstructing' Chinatown Clichés". Los Angeles Downtown News - For Everything Downtown L.A.!. Retrieved 2017-03-04.
- ^ "Chan's Mannese Theater | Elana Mann". www.elanamann.com. Retrieved 2017-03-04.
- ^ "Artists Chan, Rojas Tabbed to Create Metro Station Art". www.rafu.com. 23 November 2016. Retrieved 2017-03-04.