Anna with Top Hat (Playing Card), No. 5, 2022

Acrylic, silkscreen, & archival inkjet on fine art paper, 15" x 20". "Anime Wong" seeks to reclaim the notion of Asian-American identity in the aftermath of a rise in racist hate incidents during the SARS-CoV2 pandemic. Utilizing archival black and white photographs of Chinese-American actress Anna May Wong (1905-61), I developed an experimental printmaking process that plays with mutations of color and portraiture as a metaphor for the historical ambivalence towards and pathological perceptions of Asian-Americans in the United States. "Anime Wong" aims to sabotage the logic of color theory and subvert the “objective” clarity of photographic portraiture to create a more complex and enigmatic presentation of Asian-American identity.

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Acrylic, silkscreen, & archival inkjet on fine art paper, 15" x 20". "Anime Wong" seeks to reclaim the notion of Asian-American identity in the aftermath of a rise in racist hate incidents during the SARS-CoV2 pandemic. Utilizing archival black and white photographs of Chinese-American actress Anna May Wong (1905-61), I developed an experimental printmaking process that plays with mutations of color and portraiture as a metaphor for the historical ambivalence towards and pathological perceptions of Asian-Americans in the United States. "Anime Wong" aims to sabotage the logic of color theory and subvert the “objective” clarity of photographic portraiture to create a more complex and enigmatic presentation of Asian-American identity.