Hong Hong, in-process paper pour at Tusen Takk, June 2023
Opening Reception: Thurs, July 13, 5—7pm
On view at Commongrounds, the Tusen Takk Channel presents Hong Hong: The World is Gone, I Must Carry You, an exhibition of large-scale paper-works by summer artist-in-residence Hong Hong. Since 2015, Hong has traveled to faraway locations to create site-responsive, monumental paper-works within the landscape. In this nomadic practice, ancestral methods of Chinese paper-making coalesce with painting, monastic rituals, and feminist performances. Her most recent projects map interstitial relationships between the body, labor, time-passing, interiority, and the Chinese diaspora through cartographic, symbolic, and material languages.
I walk to the water every day. Each time, it is different. It fluctuates. When I think I know what it is, it becomes something else. Consciousness is like this too: malleable and open, yet completely impenetrable. What happens when the body takes on the interiority of a lake or the scale of a mountain? I've been working with language, diagrams, and movement, as they exist in relation to time and site, to try to answer this question.
—Hong Hong
ARTIST BIO
Born in Hefei, Anhui, China, Hong Hong earned her BFA from State University of New York at Potsdam and MFA from University of Georgia. Hong’s work has been presented in solo and group exhibitions at numerous institutions across the US, including Sarasota Art Museum (Sarasota, FL), Real Art Ways (Hartford, CT), and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art (Bentonville, AR). Hong is the recipient of a United States Artists Fellowship, Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, and Carnegie Foundation Fellowship at MacDowell. She has participated in residencies at Yaddo, Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, and McColl Center for Art + Innovation, among others. Hong recently joined the studio art program at Endicott College as an Assistant Professor. She lives and works in Massachusetts.
THE TUSEN TAKK CHANNEL: AN ARTIST ENGAGEMENT SERIES
The Tusen Takk Channel is a partnership with Alluvion Arts @ 414 at Commongrounds in downtown Traverse City, MI. The Channel will feature Tusen Takk’s artists-in-residence in rotating exhibitions and in live programs at the Alluvion, all serving to anchor Tusen Takk’s public programming in the region.
Commongrounds is a real estate cooperative cultivating a more empowered community through cooperatively-owned places that connect people and actively integrate wellness, arts, family and food. The pilot project is a four-story mixed-use building at 414 E. Eighth Street, hosting a variety of nonprofit, business, and residential tenants; visual arts programming; and events and activities.
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