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| Amalgamation #1, Graphite on mylar, 49"x37", 2017 |
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| Amalgamation #2, 50” x 39”, Graphite on mylar, 2018 |
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| Amalgamation #3, Graphite on mylar, 49"x37", 2018 |
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| Amalgamation #4, Graphite on mylar, 50"x39", 2019 |
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| Amalgamation # 5, Graphite on mylar, 50"x39", 2019 |
Amalgamation Series
In this continuing series, highly detailed drawings explore power
through depictions of a reimagined body that is both beautiful and grotesque,
masculine and feminine, vulnerable and assertive. The system in which some
bodies are privileged over another is dismantled by combining the idealized
with the abnormal. Masculinity no longer prevails over
the feminine; strength no longer prevails over the delicate; and stability no
longer prevails over the broken. The work considers a more
complex spectrum of identity that refutes the idea of valuing the body in terms
of our clear-cut definitions and hierarchies.
Bio
Ming Ying Hong is
an interdisciplinary artist based in Starkville, Mississippi. She has exhibited
throughout the United States in spaces such as the Contemporary Art Museum in
St. Louis and the Ice Box Gallery in Philadelphia. Her work has been featured in
many publications—most recently, in MANIFEST Gallery’s International Drawing
Annual 11. Currently, she teaches at Mississippi State University.
For more on her work visit www.mingyinghong.com.
For more on her work visit www.mingyinghong.com.
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