| Eye
of the Rice
Baby Jack Rice Story
made
in usa: Angel Island Shhh
Kindred
Spirit
I
Don't Know Where the Chinese Cook Lived
Kente
Rice Women: Talking Our Connection
Experimental
Rice Sacks
Gee
Ling Oy
Paper
Sister: Instructed to tell the Truth
Rice
for my Ancestors
Rice
Sacks for my Siblings
Through
Women'syes:
From Beijing to Huairou
Flo Oy Wong narrates
the Baby Jack Rice Story from the point of view of her husband
and memories within an embracing and supportive community.
One is reminded of family quilts when viewing the installation.
Wong is the narrator/interviewer/artist. The handwritten text
serves as decoration, as the advertising text on the rice
sack superficially transforms the domesticity of the family
portraits into a romantic tribute to the interactions between
the two families. The cultural and social subject matter in
Wongıs work shape the photographic installation. It is intimate
and yet conveys a sense of conscious familiarity. The juxtaposed
images pose a personal identity on images of cultural representation.
Deborah
WILLIS-KENNEDY
Professor of photography and imaging
New York University
We all tell stories,
and most of our stories get lost. But some were never really
told in the first place, which is maybe what multiculturalism
— at its most generous, not its most divisive —
was all about. With her ongoing body of work, and with her
rice sack "quilts" in particular, Flo Wong has substituted
her art and her endless passion for what has been lost —
stories that can never be fully recovered in words and pictures,
but which, as if woven into a common surface, have the quality
of having been reclaimed.
Hung
Liu, Artist and Professor
Mills College
Jeff
Kelley, Writer and Critic
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Baby Jack Rice Story
1993-1996
The Baby Jack Rice Story retrieves
the memories of my husband's childhood in Augusta, Georgia
during segregation.
Baby Jack Rice Story, 1997,
14' x 50', mixed media -
rice sacks, silkscreened photos, thread, text, wood
Baby Jack Rice Story,
1994-95, Smithsonian Gallery view
Ed Wong is, 1994, 20"
x 32", mixed media -rice sack,
silkscreened photo, thread, text
Don't tell Momma, 1993, 20"
x 32", mixed media -
rice sack, silkscreened photo, thread, text
| Baby Jack
Rice Story |
| 2000 |
Flo Oy Wong: Mixed Media and Narrative Installations,
Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA* |
| 1997 |
Rice Grains, Basic Studies/Art and Design,
School of Fine Arts Gallery, University of Kansas, Lawrence,
Kansas* |
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Baby Jack Rice Story, College
of Human Resources & Family* Sciences, Robert Hillestad
Gallery, University of Nebraska Lincoln, Lincoln, NE*
Art of the Americas: Identity Crisis,
Collaborating Artist & Participant, M. H.
deYoung Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA
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| 1994 |
Imagining Families: Images & Voices, National
African American Museum Project, Arts & Industries
Building, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D. C. |
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