Date: Sunday, October 20
Address: Intersect Arts Center, 3636 Texas Ave, St. Louis, MO, 63118
Media: Ceramics, Mixed Media, Painting
Studio Features: ADA Accessible, Child-Friendly, Outdoors, Restroom, Refreshments
Yowshien Kuo, Faces of Death, 2018. Acrylic and bone ash on canvas. Courtesy of the artist. 
Yowshien Kuo, Don't Cry for Me, I'm Already Dead, 2019. Acrylic and bone ash on canvas. Courtesy of the artist. 
Yowshien Kuo, The People's Republic of the West, 2019. Acrylic and bone ash on canvas. Courtesy of the artist. 
Yowshien Kuo, I like America and America is Liking Me, 2018. Acrylic and bone ash on canvas. Courtesy of the artist. 
Yowshien Kuo, You Ought Too Visit the Smokey's, 2018. Acrylic and bone ash on canvas. Courtesy of the artist. Stories and characters presented in history, literature, and media provide the impetus to examine my own identity and the ones that occupy my environments. The metaphors that potentially exist in these often curated characters of fiction and non-fiction are used to further dissect my own dislocation and social curiosities. The Chinese cowboy inserted into American folklore has a comical and tragic irony that intentionally challenges our notion of fact and sociological discourse.
