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Short Round Grown Up
This series of paintings recontextualizes Asian characters from films by altering both background and foreground in nuanced ways, complicating traditional modes of representation. Each artwork challenges different notions taken for granted, which have affected perceptions of how Asian bodies exist in Western society.
Daniel Wang is a self-taught artist whose current practice explores the intersection of consumerism and identity by recontextualizing familiar imagery like Hollywood starlets and '90s NBA players to challenge established narratives and complicate our perceptions of representation. Approaching his subjects from a personal-historical connection, Wang follows a drive to produce reparative images within the Pantheon of popular culture by questioning notions of authenticity, stereotype, and commodified cultural identities.
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Daniel Wang is a self-taught artist whose current practice explores the intersection of consumerism and identity. Wang is less interested in the stories we illustrate through visual modes like film and television than he is in the stories we take for granted: the subtext that shapes us on and off the camera (and canvas). Often replacing or removing backgrounds altogether to highlight his subjects (while stylizing them heavily with dry and wet mediums), Wang recontextualizes familiar imagery like Hollywood starlets and 90s NBA players to challenge established narratives and complicate our perceptions of representation.
Daniel Wang was born in Austin, TX, where he lives. He received a BA in Art History from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, CA.
Wang has shown his work in multiple solo and group exhibitions at Martha's in Austin, TX (2022-2020).
This series of paintings recontextualizes Asian characters from films by altering both background and foreground in nuanced ways, complicating traditional modes of representation. Each artwork challenges different notions taken for granted, which have affected perceptions of how Asian bodies exist in Western society.More
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