Jun
08
Alumni Events

Online Art Exhibition by Fine Art Alum John Ziqiang Wu (BFA 13 FINE)

Monday, June 08, 2020
through
Sunday, August 30, 2020



View the exhibition from John Ziqiang Wu's (BFA 13 FINE) installation at ArtCenter College of Design’s Hutto-Patterson Exhibition Hall, now online.

The watercolors in Dad’s Hands Are Smaller were created during a time when Wu’s father underwent a serious medical emergency which forced Wu to drop out of school and attend to his family. He began making the paintings, around 200 in all, as a way to keep his balance during a stressful time when days were spent in the hospital environment. When he returned to school, the experience of making the paintings allowed him a way to re-imagine his artistic practice as one rooted in helping people to see creativity as a resource open to everyone, not just people trained in art schools. As he says, “The story of art is in everyone.”