Description
Mott Street Cowgirls by Nina Kuo
vinyl fabric mural, sewn edges
24 x 36 inch
Year created: 2022
Description: An Asian woman is with her mother and her daughter, each wearing a multi-colored dress. One is wearing a cowboy hat and another has a unique hair design.
Connection to the theme: My mural- "Chinatown Mott St. Cowgirls" shows 3 generations of women: They gaze and stare in 4 directions- granny, mom, cowgirl, baby -The text gives confidence -demands dignity, spirit, and equality! Bravo for our spiritual pride that we share with all that combat racial inequality.
Artist Statement: Member of Basemen tWkp, Godzilla, Created POC art for decades: Heresies, Allied Prod. LPV -pro-LGBQ installations, EnFoco, etc. see wiki
Bio: NINA KUO - Asian American photographer, painter, video creates new realities. Her work deals with feminism, media arts combating racism, and social issues that address art to the community. She feels renewing her heritage for one's inner sense of creativity must evolve. Kuo‘s years of experience in teaching art esp. the mentally ill and homeless. This provides her with deep insight into the expressive possibilities of art. (taught: ICP, Guggenheim Mus., CPC, ChinatownYouth Initiative, China -Japan, etc.) She has executed paintings of POC art activism ( PESTS core member- Anonymous, Asian Arts Arts Centre, etc.) or works related to a mythical destiny full of contradictions. She has many series of Art - It's complex to reveal now. Pls help spread my aims.
Kuo has been reviewed in Forbes.com 2020, TheArtNewspaper 2023, NY Times 2022, Hyperallergic 2021, Kuo has been reviewed in Forbes.com 2020, The Art Newspaper 2023, NY Times 2022, Hyperallergic 2021, etc. Curated by Janet Henry, Kellie Jones, H. Pindel,l, etc. Collections: “JAM, JustAboveMidtown,” MOMA, Brooklyn Museum, Lib.Congress,, BibliotequeNationale. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nina_Kuo
9, 000*
*Price subject to sales tax.
