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Harper’s is pleased to announce Heavy Sky, Brittle Wings, New York-based artist Augustina Wang’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. The presentation features new paintings by Wang and opens Thursday, March 6, 6–8pm, with a reception attended by the artist.
Throughout Heavy Sky, Brittle Wings, Wang explores manifestations of post-humanity across otherworldly portraits of chimeras. The artist derives inspiration from the multitude of creatures—angels, harpies, and sphinxes—of Greek mythology. She refers to these hybridized figures as siblings who loosely resemble the artist herself and speak broadly to the Asian female experience. These feminized beings often boast feathered wings that puff up in flight, or, in scenes of respite such as Mound, Angel, Vulture, plumage acts as a vital protective barrier to shroud the protagonist. Wang repeatedly troubles conceptions of monstrosity and gender across the works that comprise Heavy Sky, Brittle Wings, declaring that femininity is a beast…
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Harper’s is pleased to announce Heavy Sky, Brittle Wings, New York-based artist Augustina Wang’s first solo exhibition with the gallery. The presentation features new paintings by Wang and opens Thursday, March 6, 6–8pm, with a reception attended by the artist.
Throughout Heavy Sky, Brittle Wings, Wang explores manifestations of post-humanity across otherworldly portraits of chimeras. The artist derives inspiration from the multitude of creatures—angels, harpies, and sphinxes—of Greek mythology. She refers to these hybridized figures as siblings who loosely resemble the artist herself and speak broadly to the Asian female experience. These feminized beings often boast feathered wings that puff up in flight, or, in scenes of respite such as Mound, Angel, Vulture, plumage acts as a vital protective barrier to shroud the protagonist. Wang repeatedly troubles conceptions of monstrosity and gender across the works that comprise Heavy Sky, Brittle Wings, declaring that femininity is a beast…
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