Kelly Wang (b. 1992), Brush Rest, 2023, newspaper and mixed media, 75.5 W x 25 D x 39 H in (191.8 x 63.5 x 99 cm)

Kelly Wang and Ren Light Pan: New Material Practices in INK Art
March 14–22, 2024
Exhibiting by appointment
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For this 15th year of Asia Week New York, INKstudio is pleased to present Kelly Wang and Ren Light Pan: New Material Practices in INK Art. Kelly Wang (b. 1992) and Ren Light Pan (b. 1990) are two emerging New York-based women artists who are redefining the material practices of Ink art. In one of her featured paintings, Brush Rest, Wang uses newspaper twisted into strands and sculpted into two-dimensional and three-dimensional landscape forms to transform the normally passive, absorbent ground of ink art—namely, paper—into an active, material inquiry into human society and nature. In contrast, Ren Light Pan, in her Sleep series paintings, uses the heat of her body and the physical, material properties of ink and water—namely, diffusion, absorption and evaporation—to indexically record her physical body in its sleeping state.