Spotlight Series
Hope Wang: Step 1: rid the pomelo skin of bitterness
Mar 3 – Apr 14, 2024
Step 1: rid the pomelo skin of bitterness presents an intimate collection of Hope Wang’s creative writing, reference photos, and object arrangements as contextual frameworks for the “resolved” pieces that more often represent her visual art practice.
Leaning into the repetitive nature of printmaking, the slippage of meaning when reading poetry, and the slow craft of weaving, Wang shares the resulting emotional capital conveyed through various mediums. Alongside pensive observations of her architectural surroundings, Wang also incorporates the creative process within the work itself.
Creating is a miracle, an accumulation of chance gestures and small decisions. This exhibition poses that between the studio ephemera and the capital-A Art, nothing in the show is more important than the other, as they all inform each other in the broader trajectory of an artist’s practice.
– Hope Wang
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Hope Wang is a multimedia artist and creative entrepreneur based in Chicago, IL. Her practice explores memory, loss, and longing in the ever-shifting architectural landscape. She is interested in capturing what always feels out of reach: the last seconds of the sun setting against the factory wall, wavering shadows fluttering against the pavement, and the transient space between an open storefront and a shuttered one.
She is also the founding director of LMRM, a digital weaving project space, center for community resources, and gathering place which serves the textile art communities of Chicago. Most recently in 2023, she was awarded a Visual Arts Fellowship from the Luminarts Cultural Foundation, as well as a Chicago Community Fellowship Fund from the Breakout Foundation. Her work has been exhibited throughout the Midwest and beyond, which most recently includes the Villa Terrace Decorative Arts Museum in Milwaukee, WI and the Chinese American Museum of Chicago, IL. Wang holds a BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
– Hope Wang