Spotlight Artist Opening Reception - Fengzee Yang: "Cross Into Limbo"

Fengzee Yang: Cross Into Limbo explores transfiguration as the fundamental condition of the body that hold a suspended identity. She aims to capture the moment when they are neither what they began as nor what they are turning into. All three works hang on the wall, and all three come out of wood carving done by her own hand, which is a long, bodily process. To Fengzee, carving is a nomadic process: subtractive and irreversible. Coming from a nomadic experience, the nomadic process works as a succession of translations, of adaptations to changing conditions. The form emerges from that negotiation, continually becoming something else.

Fengzee’s work explores transfiguration as the fundamental condition of the body. She pushes the body toward the edges of organ, mineral, and myth, suspending it between flesh and symbol, caught, unresolved, between the desire to become other and the cost of doing so.

Fengzee Yang engages with wood, clay, and metal as somatic extensions, interrogating the materiality of the physical form. She earned her BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Her works have been exhibited at spaces including The Plan, Slow Dance Space, Tala, ARC Gallery, Artruss, and Cochrane Woods Art Center of the University of Chicago, among others. She has participated in artist residencies at Jingdezhen International Studio, Jingdezhen, China; Oxbow School of Art, MI; Vermont Studio Center, VT; and ACRE Residency, WI.