Image, courtesy of the artist: Tiger (Auburn), 2024, basswood, acrylic, leather, and string
Solo exhibition featuring new marionettes by Shing Yin Khor.
February 8 – 23, 2024
Come see what Spring 2024 artist-in-residence Shing Yin Khor has been working on in Auburn University’s 3-D Arts Building! The works in this exhibition include wood-carved marionettes using traditional materials and techniques. These creatures are based on pre-Linnaean natural history, and inspired by 19th-century American folk art, and designed in conversation with—and with direct inspiration from—Edward Topsell and Conrad Gessner’s The History of Four-Footed Beasts and Serpents, a work in the Auburn University Libraries Special Collections and Archives. Stop-motion animation, process videos, and a life-size, interactive puppet stage join Khor’s playful marionettes for an exploration of small-scale sculpture and participatory art.
Artist Lecture & Opening Reception:
When
Thursday, February 8, 2024
5:00-7:00 pm CST
Where
Artist Lecture: 005 Biggin Hall
Reception: Biggin Gallery, 101 Biggin Hall
This event is free and open to the public. 005 Biggin Hall and Biggin Gallery are handicap accessible.
About the Artist
Shing Yin Khor is an award-winning installation artist, cartoonist and experience designer exploring mythic Americana, new human rituals, and collaborative worldbuilding. Khor is the author of The American Dream?, a graphic novel memoir about driving Route 66, which was one of NPR’s best books of 2019, and the Eisner winning, National Book Award finalist The Legend of Auntie Po, a historical fiction graphic novel about a young logging camp cook in the Sierra Nevadas telling Paul Bunyan tales. Their current marionette work stems from an interest in traditional craft and folk art applied to contemporary contexts and new fables.