Artists
Mung Lar + Whitney
Mung Lar Lam was born in Colonial Hong Kong and is now a San Francisco-based artist whose nomadic life has influenced her explorations of art through the quiet, minimal and poignant examples of transition, impermanence, perceptual experiences and social conditions. Lam received her MFA from California College of the Arts, San Francisco in 2005. She is currently Artist in Resident at Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris, France.
Whitney Vosburgh is half-Dutch and half-Dutch American (double Dutch). His father worked for Pan American Airways (Pan Am), which took Whitney around the world. As a 6 year old from the suburbs of Connecticut, he found himself in a paper house, with a traditional Japanese garden, overlooking spectacular downtown Tokyo. It was as if he was Dorothy and Japan was Oz. Now a fourth-generation artist who works with pigment, photography, plastic and light to create shimmering alternative universes, Whitney’s work has been shown in Japan, London, New York, Santa Fe, New Orleans, Los Angeles and San Francisco. A BFA graduate from Parsons School of Design in New York City, he also studied at the International Center of Photography in Paris and New York, St. Martin's School of Art in London, and the Art Students League in New York City. Whitney had 22 shows in 2004, including three solo shows. He is working towards a show in New York called: "Whitney at the Whitney”.
(http://www.whitneyvosburgh.com)
Mung Lar is in Paris. Whitney, in San Francisco. Her work in textiles is subtle, meticulous, intellectual, tactile. Whitney’s work is an explosion of colors, undulating, bold. Mung Lar asks the question: What are the manifestations and/or replacements for physical absence? With a relationship in the “real” world, the answer is easy enough: memories, fantasies, hope. But for two visual artists who never had a chance to meet to form that initial connection, and who can only communicate over the phone or the internet, the questions becomes: how far is our reach through technology, and what is lost when our physical foundation disappears? Nine time zones apart, Whitney and Mung Lar find the road to a relationship is filled with potholes, which sometimes is both more humorous and meaningful than a smooth road.