Artists
Claire + Kwong
Claire Droney is a graphic artist and photographer based out of San Francisco, CA. She has collaborated with the Institute for Unpopular Culture, the Million Fishes Gallery, and Southern Exposure Gallery. She is the founder of Done and Done Designs and is an organizer for Code Pink, a feminist activist group. Her work is currently on exhibit at Crissy Field, San Francisco.
(http://www.little-birds.com)
Kwong Yuan Li was born in California, but at the age of three, his parents decided rural North Carolina was the place to be. Shortly after graduating from the University of NC at Chapel Hill with a BFA in 2001, he escaped to the Bay Area and has been learning and experimenting with new media in both performance and installation. When not at his day job as an information specialist, Kwong is usually working on various painting, sound, web and film projects.
(http://www.kwongli.com)
On their pairing:
Claire and Kwong share a certain wry humor in how they perceive the world, in both their art and as individuals. For Claire, art conflicts with love. She worries she’ll never find love if she’s stuck in her room with x-acto knives and little bits of paper. If she gets involved with someone, she worries that she’s ignoring her art. Kwong pokes fun at the emotionally-charged but incredibly-detached atmosphere of the modern domestic environment, where we allow our window to the world to be curiously framed and driven by technology – whether it’s TV and our couch potato-ism, or our willingness to be cooped up in our cars for the sake of convenience. Kwong’s bright and humorous artwork goes hand in hand with the elusive longing of Claire’s collages. Together, they have that easy way of engaging you in a world where life is always slightly awkward, but unforgettable.