APPENDIX B 101 APPENDIX B BIOS AND REFERENCES HORATIO HUNG-YAN LAW is a curator, photographer, public art, and installation artist working in the Pacific Northwest, who focuses on making creative projects with diverse communities. His work explores identity, memory, and history that reflects his Asian American identity and his experience as an immigrant. He works with communities to create collaborative installations and public art to explore the space between individuals and the collective, and the loss and gain in cross-cultural struggle. Law is the co-creator of the Jade & Midway Districts Art Plan in 2015 that initiated 16 curated Placemaking Projects by local artists in East Portland. In 2019, he was selected as lead artist and created the Master Art Plan for the AIDS Memorial Pathway in Seattle. He is the creator and curator of Project Rayon that creates opportunities for artists at all stages of their career who are interested in exploring other artistic possibilities. In 2017, PCM hosted Law’s multi-site/multimedia installation, A Tale of Two Ghettos, which explored Portland’s fractured Asian communities as a result of discrimination, gentrification, and displacement. In 2018,
102 ILLUMINATING TIME Law curated Descendent Threads for PCM, a mixed-media art exhibition featuring the work of Portland artists Ellen George, Roberta May Wong, and Lynn Yarne. He has created numerous public art projects in Oregon and Washington. His public art portfolio includes works created for the City of Tacoma, the Housing Authority of Portland, Seattle Public Utilities, Oregon State Hospital, TriMet Portland-Milwaukee Light-Rail Line, Portland Parks & Recreations, Seattle Office of Arts & Culture, 4CULTURE, Asian Counseling and Referral Service and The AMP: AIDS Memorial Pathway in Seattle. Law has been an artistic advisor for the Portland Chinatown Museum since 2018, and the AIR program was developed in co-collaboration with PCM. ALEX CHIU is a Chinese-American painter and muralist currently living in Portland, OR. With a background in illustration and comics, he approaches public artwork as a form of visual storytelling. Much of his artwork involves incorporating community input and collaboration. The goal of his work is to accurately document local history and help communities to process cultural identity through a creative process.
APPENDIX B 103 SAM ROXAS-CHUA 姚 (Yao) is a student of poetry, visual and sound arts. He is the author of Fawn Language, Saying Your Name Three Times Underwater, Echolalia in Script and Dear Someone Somewhere, an audio podcast journal. His poetry and calligraphy works have appeared in various local, national and international journals. SHU-JU WANG is a multi-disciplinary artist who makes artist books, paintings, sculpture and installation art. Multiple voices and viewpoints are the cornerstones of her work, reflecting her personal history of migration and background in technology, science and art. It is a balancing act of the analytical vs. meditative modes of creating, of re-imagining traditional motifs in a contemporary context, and of understanding our stories as a relationship between narration vs. interpretation. In a culture of bigger-is-better and faster-is-better, Wang creates small & intimate work, slowly. Influenced by Chinese gongbi style paintings, illuminated manuscripts, and Islamic miniatures, her work combines abstract & representational forms in lush and jewel-like colors, inviting viewers to interpret, to draw conclusions about this world that we live in. SARA SIESTREEM (Hanis Coos, 1976-) is a master artist from the Umpqua River Valley on the South Coast of Oregon. She comes from a family of professional artists and educators; her training began in the home. Her lifelong mentor is Lillian Pitt (Wasco, Warm Springs, Yakama) and her weaving teachers are Greg Archuleta (Grand Ronde) and Greg A. Robinson (Chinook Nation). Siestreem graduated Phi Kappa Phi with a BS from PSU in 2005. She earned an MFA with distinction from Pratt Art Institute in 2007. She is represented by The Elizabeth Leach Gallery. She lives and works in Portland, Oregon.
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ILLUMINATING TIME • Portland Chinatown Museum Artists-In-Residency Exhibition ILLUMINATING TIME SHU-JU WANG SAM ROXAS-CHUA 姚 ALEX CHIU