| About the Exhibition
Public opening reception:
Friday, March 22, 5:30 - 7:30 pm
Tseng Kwong Chi - A Retrospective
Second Floor Galleries
Sponsored by PrideFest America; organized by the Philadelphia
Art Alliance, in cooperation with the Julie Saul Gallery, New York,
NY, and Muna Tseng.
Photographer Tseng Kwong Chi (1950-1990) was born in Hong Kong,
emigrated to Vancouver, Canada with his family at age 10, received
artistic training in Paris, and settled in New York City in the
late 1970s. Active in New York during the 1980s, before his untimely
death from AIDS in 1990, Tseng Kwong Chi's contribution to postmodern
photography is examined in this first-ever retrospective of his
work, organized by the Philadelphia Art Alliance's curator Amy Ingrid
Schlegel, in cooperation with the Julie Saul Gallery, New York,
NY and estate executor Muna Tseng, and sponsored by PrideFest America,
the nation's largest annual gay and lesbian symposium and festival,
held in Philadelphia.
Selections from Tseng's best-known photographic series East Meets
West will be displayed along with other, lesser-known bodies
of non-commercial work, Party of the Year, Metropolitan Museum
of Art (1980), photographs of Keith Haring making his renowned subway
drawings (1982-85), and collaborative series of photographs among
Tseng Kwong Chi, Keith Haring, and choreographer/dancer Bill T.
Jones (1983). In addition, the exhibition will include a cross-section
of Tseng's commercial photography for publications such as The
SoHo Weekly News, Vogue, House & Garden, GQ,
and Vanity Fair.
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About the Museum
Founded in 1915 by Christine Wetherill Stevenson,
the Art Alliance is the oldest multi-disciplinary cultural institution
in the United States. In addition to visual art exhibitions, the
Philadelphia Art Alliance also promotes literary and performing
arts programs throughout the season.
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