Cantor Arts Center
328 Lomita Drive at Museum Way
Stanford, CA 94305-5060
Phone: 650-723-4177
Livien Yin: Thirsty
Exhibition
Livien Yin: Thirsty
August 21, 2024–February 2, 2025
Livien Yin (b. 1990, Boston, Massachusetts; lives and works in Brooklyn, NY), Thirsty No. 1, 2022. Oil on linen. Collection of David Liu and Michael Fountas. Image courtesy of the artist and Micki Meng.
Ruth Levison Halperin Gallery (211)
Livien Yin: Thirsty is the first museum solo exhibition of the work of Brooklyn-based artist Livien Yin, a 2019 Stanford MFA. This single-gallery exhibition showcases new and recent paintings by Yin and their sensitive, researched-based approach to creating scenes of contemporary subjects alongside historical Asian Americans and their environments. In their paintings, Yin often casts their friends as models, collapsing the distance between the past and present to create new connective threads between Asian Americans across generations.
Yin’s recent paintings are fictional scenes inspired by the Chinese-born “paper sons and daughters” who entered the U.S. during the Chinese Exclusion Act (1882–1943) by obtaining forged documents that stated they were children of American citizens. The artist draws from historic photographs of Chinese immigrants and stages imagined vignettes in the absence of visual records, using the gaps in these archival sources as fertile ground to envision possible realities.
This exhibition is curated by AAAI Co-Director, Aleesa Pitchamarn Alexander, with Kathryn Cua, curatorial assistant for the AAAI.
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The Cantor Arts Center is located at the intersection of Museum Way and Lomita Drive in the heart of the arts district on the Stanford campus. The Cantor faces the Bing Concert Hall across Palm Drive, northwest of The Oval and the Main Quad.
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