Image: Xuchi Naungayan Eggleton. Finding America. 2014. 4 panels, encaustic, acrylic on paper. 44”x30”. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
OAKLAND, California – A talk and Q&A with Filipino-American artist Xuchi Naungayan Eggleton will be held on Sunday, September 21, from 2:00 to 5:00 p.m. at the Oakland Asian Cultural Center, Ninth Street.
“Wish I Were There: Imagined Geographies,” will be moderated by Natasha Reichle, associate curator of Southeast Asian Art, Asian Art Museum.
Naungayan Eggleton uses the Greco-Roman ancient craft of encaustic painting, “the enigmatic traditions of Filipino Kut-Kut (scratching)” and the Asian gold leaf tradition to convey “the links between the documents and objects associated with my grandparents’ travels to material history, geographies, and its broader cultural implications.”
She says further, “I was inspired by my grandparents’ migration to America, one from the Philippines, by sea, and the other from Mexico, by land.”
Artist Xuchi Naungayan Eggleton. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
Naungayan Eggleton attained her MFA on painting at San Francisco Art Institute in 2007 and BFA on painting, printmaking and photography in San Diego State University, 1999. She is adjunct faculty at Miracosta College in San Diego California. www.xuchinaungayaneggleton.com
The exhibition is curated by Julina Togonon, an independent curator based in the San Francisco Bay Area. She was the founder and director of Togonon Gallery from 1994-2012.
The exhibition is organized by the Oakland Asian Cultural Center, Asian Contemporary Art Consortium-San Francisco and Julina Togonon Fine Arts. Support is provided in part by the Agbayani Construction Corporation and ProfoodUSA.