"Subject Matters"

Phoenix. Gallery, 568 Broadway, NY NY 10012
July 17 to August 4, 2001

Press Release: June 16, 2001

"Subject Matters" is the fourth annual exhibition organized by the Asian American Women's Artists Alliance, featuring 22 artists of Asian and American backgrounds. The title is a pun meant to undercut the pervasive trendy-ness of the present art world. Artists are expected to explain their artwork, incorporate cultural, social references and critiques in their work, and generally "educate" their audience. Giving a "humanitarian" spin to one"s artwork is often key in successfully achieving funding. We assert through this exhibition that just as representational or political art can contain subject matter, so non-objective art -- profound subject matter-- often reflecting human intuition and non-descriptive longings. Therefore Subject matter matters, especially when the artwork bends towards visual experimentation. When successfully executed, art is a revelation, a visual delight, an education in itself. open-mindedness, the Asian Therefore in a spirit of inclusion and American Women Artists Alliance presents the exhibition "Subject Matters", which representational painters, two installation includes eleven non-objective painters, three artists, two fiber artists, one photographer, and three traditional Asian brush and ink artists.

Exhibition Catalog Available upon Request

Participating Artists: Hyun Mee Cho, Sun Ok Chun, Paula DeLuccia, Ellen Hsiao, Joo Hyun Kang, Yan Kong, Akiko Kotani, C.J. Lee, Fannie Lee, Num Yi Lee, Winnie Lee, Ripley Lin, Minn Matsuda, Anne Reilly, Sung Sook Setton, Ming Ming Shih, Karin U. Soika, Nancy Soyer, Tomoko Tamura, Shirley Pu Wills, Song Xin, Hee Sung Yang.

This exhibition is made possible, in part, by public funds from the Fund for Creative Communities/New York State Council on the Arts Decentralization Program, administered by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council.