Dates:
November 13 - January 12, 2007
Opening Reception:
Tuesday, November 14, 6:30pm to 8:00pm
Artist Talk:
Tuesday, November 14, 5:30pm to 6:30pm
Location:
Vantage Point Gallery: a partnership between the International
Center for Photography and The Point CDC
940 Garrison Avenue at Manida
Bronx New York 10474
718-542-4139
www.thepoint.org
Gallery Hours: Monday-Friday, 10am-7pm
Saturday, 10:30am-4:30pm
Directions: #6 train to Hunts Point Avenue; walk
under the Bruckner; right at the light onto Garrison.
Artist's Statement:
"2 Generations, 1 American" is an expression
of the tension and chasm in a mother-daughter relationship,
compounded with the problems of an immigrant relating to a native. Portraits of a Chinese
mother and her American daughter reflect my relationship
with my mother as I denounce, embrace, and resist her as
the source of my ethnic stigma.
I was once ashamed of my mother and her Chinese ways. They
made me conscious of my own foreign-ness to others. For
years, I was convinced I was ugly simply because I wasn't
white. I grew up believing this because the message all
around me – in media, ads, Hollywood, on TV and radio
– kept reinforcing it.
Cultural, linguistic, and semantic differences between my
mother and me interfered with our communication. We could
understand each other's words, but not our meaning. If a
girl's role model was first and foremost her mother, I was
at a horrible position of distancing myself from my mother
and being prejudiced against myself.
This series is for those who often struggle to balance themselves
between two different cultures. The series hopes to explain
a way of life that is filled with mixed messages and double
meaning."
-- Julia Cowing
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