Yeni Mao’s debut show at Collette Blanchard Gallery explores history and its transformation into myth with photo-based works, dark suggestive sculptures, and a large flotilla of boats, hung inverted from the ceiling. This central installation, Dead Reckoning, for which the exhibition is titled, is a sculptural homage to Zheng He, a eunuch in charge of a powerful ancient Chinese army. The piece captures the dichotomy of Zheng He’s legacy as both an ultramasculine fleet admiral and a eunuch. This Canadian-born Chinese artist draws from this mythology themes of fantasy, power, masculinity and metamorphosis. The exhibition is at Collette Blanchard Gallery in New York through March 6.Originally from Ontario and having spent time in Sweden, Taiwan, and studying at the Art Institute of Chicago, Mao currently lives and works in a Manhattan loft with his partner of eight years. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, at venues...
- 1/29/2011
- The Advocate
Yeni Mao’s debut show at Collette Blanchard Gallery explores history and its transformation into myth with photo-based works, dark suggestive sculptures, and a large flotilla of boats, hung inverted from the ceiling. This central installation, Dead Reckoning, for which the exhibition is titled, is a sculptural homage to Zheng He, a eunuch in charge of a powerful ancient Chinese army. The piece captures the dichotomy of Zheng He’s legacy as both an ultramasculine fleet admiral and a eunuch. This Canadian-born Chinese artist draws from this mythology themes of fantasy, power, masculinity and metamorphosis. The exhibition is at Collette Blanchard Gallery in New York through March 6.Originally from Ontario and having spent time in Sweden, Taiwan, and studying at the Art Institute of Chicago, Mao currently lives and works in a Manhattan loft with his partner of eight years. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, at venues...
- 1/29/2011
- The Advocate
Yeni Mao’s debut show at Collette Blanchard Gallery explores history and its transformation into myth with photo-based works, dark suggestive sculptures, and a large flotilla of boats, hung inverted from the ceiling. This central installation, Dead Reckoning, for which the exhibition is titled, is a sculptural homage to Zheng He, a eunuch in charge of a powerful ancient Chinese army. The piece captures the dichotomy of Zheng He’s legacy as both an ultramasculine fleet admiral and a eunuch. This Canadian-born Chinese artist draws from this mythology themes of fantasy, power, masculinity and metamorphosis. The exhibition is at Collette Blanchard Gallery in New York through March 6.Originally from Ontario and having spent time in Sweden, Taiwan, and studying at the Art Institute of Chicago, Mao currently lives and works in a Manhattan loft with his partner of eight years. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, at venues...
- 1/29/2011
- The Advocate
Yeni Mao’s debut show at Collette Blanchard Gallery explores history and its transformation into myth with photo-based works, dark suggestive sculptures, and a large flotilla of boats, hung inverted from the ceiling. This central installation, Dead Reckoning, for which the exhibition is titled, is a sculptural homage to Zheng He, a eunuch in charge of a powerful ancient Chinese army. The piece captures the dichotomy of Zheng He’s legacy as both an ultramasculine fleet admiral and a eunuch. This Canadian-born Chinese artist draws from this mythology themes of fantasy, power, masculinity and metamorphosis. The exhibition is at Collette Blanchard Gallery in New York through March 6.Originally from Ontario and having spent time in Sweden, Taiwan, and studying at the Art Institute of Chicago, Mao currently lives and works in a Manhattan loft with his partner of eight years. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, at venues...
- 1/29/2011
- The Advocate
Yeni Mao’s debut show at Collette Blanchard Gallery explores history and its transformation into myth with photo-based works, dark suggestive sculptures, and a large flotilla of boats, hung inverted from the ceiling. This central installation, Dead Reckoning, for which the exhibition is titled, is a sculptural homage to Zheng He, a eunuch in charge of a powerful ancient Chinese army. The piece captures the dichotomy of Zheng He’s legacy as both an ultramasculine fleet admiral and a eunuch. This Canadian-born Chinese artist draws from this mythology themes of fantasy, power, masculinity and metamorphosis. The exhibition is at Collette Blanchard Gallery in New York through March 6.Originally from Ontario and having spent time in Sweden, Taiwan, and studying at the Art Institute of Chicago, Mao currently lives and works in a Manhattan loft with his partner of eight years. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, at venues...
- 1/29/2011
- The Advocate
Yeni Mao’s debut show at Collette Blanchard Gallery explores history and its transformation into myth with photo-based works, dark suggestive sculptures, and a large flotilla of boats, hung inverted from the ceiling. This central installation, Dead Reckoning, for which the exhibition is titled, is a sculptural homage to Zheng He, a eunuch in charge of a powerful ancient Chinese army. The piece captures the dichotomy of Zheng He’s legacy as both an ultramasculine fleet admiral and a eunuch. This Canadian-born Chinese artist draws from this mythology themes of fantasy, power, masculinity and metamorphosis. The exhibition is at Collette Blanchard Gallery in New York through March 6.Originally from Ontario and having spent time in Sweden, Taiwan, and studying at the Art Institute of Chicago, Mao currently lives and works in a Manhattan loft with his partner of eight years. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, at venues...
- 1/29/2011
- The Advocate
Yeni Mao’s debut show at Collette Blanchard Gallery explores history and its transformation into myth with photo-based works, dark suggestive sculptures, and a large flotilla of boats, hung inverted from the ceiling. This central installation, Dead Reckoning, for which the exhibition is titled, is a sculptural homage to Zheng He, a eunuch in charge of a powerful ancient Chinese army. The piece captures the dichotomy of Zheng He’s legacy as both an ultramasculine fleet admiral and a eunuch. This Canadian-born Chinese artist draws from this mythology themes of fantasy, power, masculinity and metamorphosis. The exhibition is at Collette Blanchard Gallery in New York through March 6.Originally from Ontario and having spent time in Sweden, Taiwan, and studying at the Art Institute of Chicago, Mao currently lives and works in a Manhattan loft with his partner of eight years. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, at venues...
- 1/29/2011
- The Advocate
Yeni Mao’s debut show at Collette Blanchard Gallery explores history and its transformation into myth with photo-based works, dark suggestive sculptures, and a large flotilla of boats, hung inverted from the ceiling. This central installation, Dead Reckoning, for which the exhibition is titled, is a sculptural homage to Zheng He, a eunuch in charge of a powerful ancient Chinese army. The piece captures the dichotomy of Zheng He’s legacy as both an ultramasculine fleet admiral and a eunuch. This Canadian-born Chinese artist draws from this mythology themes of fantasy, power, masculinity and metamorphosis. The exhibition is at Collette Blanchard Gallery in New York through March 6.Originally from Ontario and having spent time in Sweden, Taiwan, and studying at the Art Institute of Chicago, Mao currently lives and works in a Manhattan loft with his partner of eight years. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, at venues...
- 1/29/2011
- The Advocate
Yeni Mao’s debut show at Collette Blanchard Gallery explores history and its transformation into myth with photo-based works, dark suggestive sculptures, and a large flotilla of boats, hung inverted from the ceiling. This central installation, Dead Reckoning, for which the exhibition is titled, is a sculptural homage to Zheng He, a eunuch in charge of a powerful ancient Chinese army. The piece captures the dichotomy of Zheng He’s legacy as both an ultramasculine fleet admiral and a eunuch. This Canadian-born Chinese artist draws from this mythology themes of fantasy, power, masculinity and metamorphosis. The exhibition is at Collette Blanchard Gallery in New York through March 6.Originally from Ontario and having spent time in Sweden, Taiwan, and studying at the Art Institute of Chicago, Mao currently lives and works in a Manhattan loft with his partner of eight years. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, at venues...
- 1/29/2011
- The Advocate
Yeni Mao’s debut show at Collette Blanchard Gallery explores history and its transformation into myth with photo-based works, dark suggestive sculptures, and a large flotilla of boats, hung inverted from the ceiling. This central installation, Dead Reckoning, for which the exhibition is titled, is a sculptural homage to Zheng He, a eunuch in charge of a powerful ancient Chinese army. The piece captures the dichotomy of Zheng He’s legacy as both an ultramasculine fleet admiral and a eunuch. This Canadian-born Chinese artist draws from this mythology themes of fantasy, power, masculinity and metamorphosis. The exhibition is at Collette Blanchard Gallery in New York through March 6.Originally from Ontario and having spent time in Sweden, Taiwan, and studying at the Art Institute of Chicago, Mao currently lives and works in a Manhattan loft with his partner of eight years. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, at venues...
- 1/29/2011
- The Advocate
Yeni Mao’s debut show at Collette Blanchard Gallery explores history and its transformation into myth with photo-based works, dark suggestive sculptures, and a large flotilla of boats, hung inverted from the ceiling. This central installation, Dead Reckoning, for which the exhibition is titled, is a sculptural homage to Zheng He, a eunuch in charge of a powerful ancient Chinese army. The piece captures the dichotomy of Zheng He’s legacy as both an ultramasculine fleet admiral and a eunuch. This Canadian-born Chinese artist draws from this mythology themes of fantasy, power, masculinity and metamorphosis. The exhibition is at Collette Blanchard Gallery in New York through March 6.Originally from Ontario and having spent time in Sweden, Taiwan, and studying at the Art Institute of Chicago, Mao currently lives and works in a Manhattan loft with his partner of eight years. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, at venues...
- 1/29/2011
- The Advocate
Yeni Mao’s debut show at Collette Blanchard Gallery explores history and its transformation into myth with photo-based works, dark suggestive sculptures, and a large flotilla of boats, hung inverted from the ceiling. This central installation, Dead Reckoning, for which the exhibition is titled, is a sculptural homage to Zheng He, a eunuch in charge of a powerful ancient Chinese army. The piece captures the dichotomy of Zheng He’s legacy as both an ultramasculine fleet admiral and a eunuch. This Canadian-born Chinese artist draws from this mythology themes of fantasy, power, masculinity and metamorphosis. The exhibition is at Collette Blanchard Gallery in New York through March 6.Originally from Ontario and having spent time in Sweden, Taiwan, and studying at the Art Institute of Chicago, Mao currently lives and works in a Manhattan loft with his partner of eight years. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, at venues...
- 1/29/2011
- The Advocate
Yeni Mao’s debut show at Collette Blanchard Gallery explores history and its transformation into myth with photo-based works, dark suggestive sculptures, and a large flotilla of boats, hung inverted from the ceiling. This central installation, Dead Reckoning, for which the exhibition is titled, is a sculptural homage to Zheng He, a eunuch in charge of a powerful ancient Chinese army. The piece captures the dichotomy of Zheng He’s legacy as both an ultramasculine fleet admiral and a eunuch. This Canadian-born Chinese artist draws from this mythology themes of fantasy, power, masculinity and metamorphosis. The exhibition is at Collette Blanchard Gallery in New York through March 6.Originally from Ontario and having spent time in Sweden, Taiwan, and studying at the Art Institute of Chicago, Mao currently lives and works in a Manhattan loft with his partner of eight years. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, at venues...
- 1/29/2011
- The Advocate
Yeni Mao’s debut show at Collette Blanchard Gallery explores history and its transformation into myth with photo-based works, dark suggestive sculptures, and a large flotilla of boats, hung inverted from the ceiling. This central installation, Dead Reckoning, for which the exhibition is titled, is a sculptural homage to Zheng He, a eunuch in charge of a powerful ancient Chinese army. The piece captures the dichotomy of Zheng He’s legacy as both an ultramasculine fleet admiral and a eunuch. This Canadian-born Chinese artist draws from this mythology themes of fantasy, power, masculinity and metamorphosis. The exhibition is at Collette Blanchard Gallery in New York through March 6.Originally from Ontario and having spent time in Sweden, Taiwan, and studying at the Art Institute of Chicago, Mao currently lives and works in a Manhattan loft with his partner of eight years. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, at venues...
- 1/29/2011
- The Advocate
Yeni Mao’s debut show at Collette Blanchard Gallery explores history and its transformation into myth with photo-based works, dark suggestive sculptures, and a large flotilla of boats, hung inverted from the ceiling. This central installation, Dead Reckoning, for which the exhibition is titled, is a sculptural homage to Zheng He, a eunuch in charge of a powerful ancient Chinese army. The piece captures the dichotomy of Zheng He’s legacy as both an ultramasculine fleet admiral and a eunuch. This Canadian-born Chinese artist draws from this mythology themes of fantasy, power, masculinity and metamorphosis. The exhibition is at Collette Blanchard Gallery in New York through March 6.Originally from Ontario and having spent time in Sweden, Taiwan, and studying at the Art Institute of Chicago, Mao currently lives and works in a Manhattan loft with his partner of eight years. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, at venues...
- 1/29/2011
- The Advocate
Yeni Mao’s debut show at Collette Blanchard Gallery explores history and its transformation into myth with photo-based works, dark suggestive sculptures, and a large flotilla of boats, hung inverted from the ceiling. This central installation, Dead Reckoning, for which the exhibition is titled, is a sculptural homage to Zheng He, a eunuch in charge of a powerful ancient Chinese army. The piece captures the dichotomy of Zheng He’s legacy as both an ultramasculine fleet admiral and a eunuch. This Canadian-born Chinese artist draws from this mythology themes of fantasy, power, masculinity and metamorphosis. The exhibition is at Collette Blanchard Gallery in New York through March 6.Originally from Ontario and having spent time in Sweden, Taiwan, and studying at the Art Institute of Chicago, Mao currently lives and works in a Manhattan loft with his partner of eight years. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, at venues...
- 1/29/2011
- The Advocate
Yeni Mao’s debut show at Collette Blanchard Gallery explores history and its transformation into myth with photo-based works, dark suggestive sculptures, and a large flotilla of boats, hung inverted from the ceiling. This central installation, Dead Reckoning, for which the exhibition is titled, is a sculptural homage to Zheng He, a eunuch in charge of a powerful ancient Chinese army. The piece captures the dichotomy of Zheng He’s legacy as both an ultramasculine fleet admiral and a eunuch. This Canadian-born Chinese artist draws from this mythology themes of fantasy, power, masculinity and metamorphosis. The exhibition is at Collette Blanchard Gallery in New York through March 6.Originally from Ontario and having spent time in Sweden, Taiwan, and studying at the Art Institute of Chicago, Mao currently lives and works in a Manhattan loft with his partner of eight years. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, at venues...
- 1/29/2011
- The Advocate
Yeni Mao’s debut show at Collette Blanchard Gallery explores history and its transformation into myth with photo-based works, dark suggestive sculptures, and a large flotilla of boats, hung inverted from the ceiling. This central installation, Dead Reckoning, for which the exhibition is titled, is a sculptural homage to Zheng He, a eunuch in charge of a powerful ancient Chinese army. The piece captures the dichotomy of Zheng He’s legacy as both an ultramasculine fleet admiral and a eunuch. This Canadian-born Chinese artist draws from this mythology themes of fantasy, power, masculinity and metamorphosis. The exhibition is at Collette Blanchard Gallery in New York through March 6.Originally from Ontario and having spent time in Sweden, Taiwan, and studying at the Art Institute of Chicago, Mao currently lives and works in a Manhattan loft with his partner of eight years. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, at venues...
- 1/29/2011
- The Advocate
Yeni Mao’s debut show at Collette Blanchard Gallery explores history and its transformation into myth with photo-based works, dark suggestive sculptures, and a large flotilla of boats, hung inverted from the ceiling. This central installation, Dead Reckoning, for which the exhibition is titled, is a sculptural homage to Zheng He, a eunuch in charge of a powerful ancient Chinese army. The piece captures the dichotomy of Zheng He’s legacy as both an ultramasculine fleet admiral and a eunuch. This Canadian-born Chinese artist draws from this mythology themes of fantasy, power, masculinity and metamorphosis. The exhibition is at Collette Blanchard Gallery in New York through March 6.Originally from Ontario and having spent time in Sweden, Taiwan, and studying at the Art Institute of Chicago, Mao currently lives and works in a Manhattan loft with his partner of eight years. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, at venues...
- 1/29/2011
- The Advocate
Yeni Mao’s debut show at Collette Blanchard Gallery explores history and its transformation into myth with photo-based works, dark suggestive sculptures, and a large flotilla of boats, hung inverted from the ceiling. This central installation, Dead Reckoning, for which the exhibition is titled, is a sculptural homage to Zheng He, a eunuch in charge of a powerful ancient Chinese army. The piece captures the dichotomy of Zheng He’s legacy as both an ultramasculine fleet admiral and a eunuch. This Canadian-born Chinese artist draws from this mythology themes of fantasy, power, masculinity and metamorphosis. The exhibition is at Collette Blanchard Gallery in New York through March 6.Originally from Ontario and having spent time in Sweden, Taiwan, and studying at the Art Institute of Chicago, Mao currently lives and works in a Manhattan loft with his partner of eight years. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, at venues...
- 1/29/2011
- The Advocate
Yeni Mao’s debut show at Collette Blanchard Gallery explores history and its transformation into myth with photo-based works, dark suggestive sculptures, and a large flotilla of boats, hung inverted from the ceiling. This central installation, Dead Reckoning, for which the exhibition is titled, is a sculptural homage to Zheng He, a eunuch in charge of a powerful ancient Chinese army. The piece captures the dichotomy of Zheng He’s legacy as both an ultramasculine fleet admiral and a eunuch. This Canadian-born Chinese artist draws from this mythology themes of fantasy, power, masculinity and metamorphosis. The exhibition is at Collette Blanchard Gallery in New York through March 6.Originally from Ontario and having spent time in Sweden, Taiwan, and studying at the Art Institute of Chicago, Mao currently lives and works in a Manhattan loft with his partner of eight years. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, at venues...
- 1/29/2011
- The Advocate
Yeni Mao’s debut show at Collette Blanchard Gallery explores history and its transformation into myth with photo-based works, dark suggestive sculptures, and a large flotilla of boats, hung inverted from the ceiling. This central installation, Dead Reckoning, for which the exhibition is titled, is a sculptural homage to Zheng He, a eunuch in charge of a powerful ancient Chinese army. The piece captures the dichotomy of Zheng He’s legacy as both an ultramasculine fleet admiral and a eunuch. This Canadian-born Chinese artist draws from this mythology themes of fantasy, power, masculinity and metamorphosis. The exhibition is at Collette Blanchard Gallery in New York through March 6.Originally from Ontario and having spent time in Sweden, Taiwan, and studying at the Art Institute of Chicago, Mao currently lives and works in a Manhattan loft with his partner of eight years. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, at venues...
- 1/29/2011
- The Advocate
Yeni Mao’s debut show at Collette Blanchard Gallery explores history and its transformation into myth with photo-based works, dark suggestive sculptures, and a large flotilla of boats, hung inverted from the ceiling. This central installation, Dead Reckoning, for which the exhibition is titled, is a sculptural homage to Zheng He, a eunuch in charge of a powerful ancient Chinese army. The piece captures the dichotomy of Zheng He’s legacy as both an ultramasculine fleet admiral and a eunuch. This Canadian-born Chinese artist draws from this mythology themes of fantasy, power, masculinity and metamorphosis. The exhibition is at Collette Blanchard Gallery in New York through March 6.Originally from Ontario and having spent time in Sweden, Taiwan, and studying at the Art Institute of Chicago, Mao currently lives and works in a Manhattan loft with his partner of eight years. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, at venues...
- 1/29/2011
- The Advocate
Yeni Mao’s debut show at Collette Blanchard Gallery explores history and its transformation into myth with photo-based works, dark suggestive sculptures, and a large flotilla of boats, hung inverted from the ceiling. This central installation, Dead Reckoning, for which the exhibition is titled, is a sculptural homage to Zheng He, a eunuch in charge of a powerful ancient Chinese army. The piece captures the dichotomy of Zheng He’s legacy as both an ultramasculine fleet admiral and a eunuch. This Canadian-born Chinese artist draws from this mythology themes of fantasy, power, masculinity and metamorphosis. The exhibition is at Collette Blanchard Gallery in New York through March 6.Originally from Ontario and having spent time in Sweden, Taiwan, and studying at the Art Institute of Chicago, Mao currently lives and works in a Manhattan loft with his partner of eight years. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, at venues...
- 1/29/2011
- The Advocate
Yeni Mao’s debut show at Collette Blanchard Gallery explores history and its transformation into myth with photo-based works, dark suggestive sculptures, and a large flotilla of boats, hung inverted from the ceiling. This central installation, Dead Reckoning, for which the exhibition is titled, is a sculptural homage to Zheng He, a eunuch in charge of a powerful ancient Chinese army. The piece captures the dichotomy of Zheng He’s legacy as both an ultramasculine fleet admiral and a eunuch. This Canadian-born Chinese artist draws from this mythology themes of fantasy, power, masculinity and metamorphosis. The exhibition is at Collette Blanchard Gallery in New York through March 6.Originally from Ontario and having spent time in Sweden, Taiwan, and studying at the Art Institute of Chicago, Mao currently lives and works in a Manhattan loft with his partner of eight years. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, at venues...
- 1/29/2011
- The Advocate
Yeni Mao’s debut show at Collette Blanchard Gallery explores history and its transformation into myth with photo-based works, dark suggestive sculptures, and a large flotilla of boats, hung inverted from the ceiling. This central installation, Dead Reckoning, for which the exhibition is titled, is a sculptural homage to Zheng He, a eunuch in charge of a powerful ancient Chinese army. The piece captures the dichotomy of Zheng He’s legacy as both an ultramasculine fleet admiral and a eunuch. This Canadian-born Chinese artist draws from this mythology themes of fantasy, power, masculinity and metamorphosis. The exhibition is at Collette Blanchard Gallery in New York through March 6.Originally from Ontario and having spent time in Sweden, Taiwan, and studying at the Art Institute of Chicago, Mao currently lives and works in a Manhattan loft with his partner of eight years. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, at venues...
- 1/29/2011
- The Advocate
The combined weight of Rick Owens’ alabaster and marble bed and matching daybed is two tons. The pieces, along with two lamps, two low tables, and a floor-to-ceiling sheared mink curtain – worth about $440,000 – premiered this weekend as Owens’ first U.S. furniture exhibition, “Pavane for a Dead Princess,” at Salon 94 on the Upper East Side. Calvin Klein, the W’s Amanda Ross, the Guggenheim’s Ari Weisman, and model Tao Okamoto were all on hand.
- 5/10/2010
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
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