No one was portraying the people I knew, growing up in a majority Asian-American population: free to be as undignified or not as they wanted. The niche for making pottery nudes of a cranky Asian persuasion was open, so I took it. — Esther Shimazu “After All That” by Esther Shimazu PAGODA RED is excited to […]

On view from September 5 through October 31, 2017, the work of Almudena Rodriguez is a clear-sighted look at our current time and place. It’s also a celebration of craft and mixed media. Having lived in Spain, Mexico and the United States, Rodriguez shares our fascination with the cross-cultural pollination of ideas and materials. In particular, she […]

Taikkun Li paints traditional motifs and landscapes onto porcelain cola bottles, bridging east and west in one extraordinary object. An interdisciplinary artist, Li works in industrial design, fine arts, ceramics, film and video. Li’s bottles are painted with a scene reminiscent of the Ming Dynasty’s famous blue and white ceramics — deftly combining old and new, […]

I hope the images carry some message, but a vague one…there’s a trace of abstraction in my paintings even though the subjects are all rather concrete. Ren Hui moves you. His work draws you in and then forces distance to understand. As you step back to see the big picture, Hui successfully creates tension between the […]