Having grown up in the Henan province of China, Jing Qin embeds subtle signifiers of cultural collision in her figurative paintings—here a folding screen, there a tiger figurine. Elements of pattern, landscape, and foliage seem to pay homage to Qin’s childhood. As in Phouthavong’s work, subtle patterns of cultural hybridity underpin the works, reflecting a […]

Sisavanh Phouthavong lives and works in Murfreesboro, TN. She is a professor of painting at MTSU and has received considerable recognition for her work. Her work draws heavily on her experience of displacement as a Lao American refugee. These large scale, abstract paintings create a third space of cultural hybridity, of fractured perspective and identity—a […]