The Quarter Gallery at the Regis Center for Art is proud to present Kelly Wang: Impressed. Wang is a New York-based artist whose work examines and redefines Asian-American identity and considers the reality of being a diasporic artist. The exhibition reflects the ways history presses itself upon our lives to be seen, felt, and heard across cultures, generations, and national borders.
Her work insists that cultural impressions, even when partial or subconscious, carry forward histories of migration, displacement, and resilience. This tension is reflected in her artistic methods, which build upon a process of impression and release to transmit elements of her sources while leaving others behind. These works consider the loss and opportunity created through diasporic inheritance, as well as art’s potential to construct new forms of transnational identity.