opening reception: November 15, 6-9 pm
artist talk: November 15, 5:30 pm
ongoing exhibition: November 15, 2024-January 11, 2025
Material is very pleased to present a solo exhibition of drawings by Taiwan-born, New York City-based artist Fay Ku, on view in Salt Lake City from November 15, 2024 to January 11, 2025. The exhibition, titled Darkness Against the Glittering Sky, is a curated selection of works spanning several years that represent the artist’s love of playing with materials and processes within the drawing discipline. Please join us at Material on Friday, November 15 for the opening reception and an artist talk.
Fay Ku is, at heart, a drawer, though she often uses materials and processes not traditionally associated with drawing. These works on paper incorporate paper and paper-like substrates, from traditional Asian papers to translucent drafting film, and processes from collage, hand printmaking, and embroidery. Whatever the media, she creates worlds inhabited by women and children engaged in often troubling or even demonic behaviors. Ku is inspired by many historical techniques and styles—especially traditional East Asian art—but her narratives draw from contemporary concerns.
Fay Ku is the recipient of a 2007 Louis Comfort Tiffany Grant, a 2009 New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) fellowship grant, and was a Finalist for the NYFA fellowship in 2023. She has exhibited both nationally and internationally, including solo exhibitions at the Honolulu Museum of Art (Honolulu, Hawai’i), Marlboro College (Marlboro, VT), New Britain Museum of American Art (New Britain, CT), and Snite Museum of Art (South Bend, IN). Her work is in the collections of the Honolulu Museum of Art, the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art (Las Vegas, NV), the New Britain Museum of American Art, the University of New Mexico Art Museum, and the Wadsworth Atheneum (Hartford, CT). Ku has participated in numerous residencies including the Tamarind Institute in Albuquerque, NM, and Bemis Center for Contemporary Art.