HO YANG FINE ART
  • home
  • artist
    • Gallery >
      • 2020 - present
      • 2015 - 2020
      • 2009 - 2014
      • collected
    • Series >
      • naturally...
      • thankful...
      • blue (2020-present)
      • together (2019 - present)
      • yellow (2019-2020)
      • embrace 50 (2018-2019)
      • breadcrumbs (2017-2018)
    • Sketchbooks >
      • #TrippingThisLife2 (2016-2018)
      • #TrippingThisLife (2015-2016)
      • Reflections (2014)
    • Exhibitions >
      • Season of LOVE
      • FALL 2022
      • SPRING 2022
      • HYFA in Raleigh, NC (2016-2018)
      • Exhibition Summer 2015
      • Exhibition Summer 2010
      • Go Hog Wild (2010)
  • 121 Vance Street
    • HYFA studio*gallery*shop
    • shop online
    • events >
      • Season of LOVE
      • FALL 2022
      • SPRING 2022
      • Opening Day - April 22, 2022
  • educator
    • teaching artist
    • art, education, & perspectives...
  • advocate
  • about
  • blog
  • contact
    • art-work by request

Ho Yang Fine Art

imagine the stories we share...

3/19/2021

0 Comments

 
Picture
Younger me believed in keeping my birth name as I grew into adulthood. I imagined my medical degree, white lab coat, name tags... the usual identifiers labeled with "Dr. Ho" in honor of my family. At 21, I had not planned on finding a friend who would embrace what it means to keep my family name. As a tribute to us, I sign all art-work GYang - a reflection of me, Ken and our life together.
Picture
detail of #BLUE no. 6 - mixed media on canvas
Marriage traditionalists have asked, "Why didn't you take his last name?" What's in a name? A birth name. Family name. First and middle names. Nicknames. How much of a person's identity is tied to the implications of a name: ancestries, assumptions of race, nationalities, cultural norms, gender, societal expectations and the many stories that go with it? A name can say everything, something, and nothing more or less than what was intended. 
In the art world, consider the name given to a painting; the title, even when labeled "untitled" suggests something about the work. Each painting holds stories not only about the art and its artist, but also stories imagined by its viewers. The deeper impact, beauty and wonder exist in these stories that live beyond the title and visual first impressions. 
Recently finished: "finding common ground" (#BLUE no. 5, 6, 7) - 3 side-by-side canvases, each 24x36" mixed media (black inks, chalk pastels, dried flowers, glass beads, acrylics) 
Picture
#BLUE no. 5 (finding...) - 24x36" mixed media on canvas
Picture
#BLUE no. 6 (common) - 24x36" mixed media on canvas
Picture
#BLUE no. 7 (...ground) - 24x36" mixed media on canvas

​So when we meet, after that first, "hello, my name is..." I hope to have the chance to swap stories. It's about understanding who we are, what we don't know, how we care for one another and choose to be together... imagine the stories we share. 
Picture
March 16-18, 2021 - in my sketchbook #TrippingThisLife3
Picture
March 19, 2021 - in my sketchbook #TrippingThisLife3

​Dedicated to strangers, the ones unafraid to walk this path with me, with us
-- Asian Americans & Pacific Islanders --
​it's worth repeating, ​Thank You. 
#BLUE series (Feb. 2020 - present) updated for no. 5, 6, 7 and no. 12
0 Comments

Your comment will be posted after it is approved.


Leave a Reply.

    Author

    Owner of HYFA. Original art-work signed GYang. Artist, educator, and advocate ...because art matters. Retired Family Physician (MD)

    Archives

    June 2022
    January 2022
    October 2021
    March 2021
    November 2020
    June 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    January 2020
    September 2018
    March 2017
    January 2017
    October 2016
    August 2016
    October 2015
    September 2015
    June 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    November 2014

    Categories

    All

    RSS Feed

Ho Yang Fine Art 2008 - 2023 all rights reserved.
Respect that intellectual and artistic creativity of original HYFA art/work belong to Grace W. Ho.
DO NOT copy, print or reprint, produce or reproduce, claim rights to HYFA art/work.
  • home
  • artist
    • Gallery >
      • 2020 - present
      • 2015 - 2020
      • 2009 - 2014
      • collected
    • Series >
      • naturally...
      • thankful...
      • blue (2020-present)
      • together (2019 - present)
      • yellow (2019-2020)
      • embrace 50 (2018-2019)
      • breadcrumbs (2017-2018)
    • Sketchbooks >
      • #TrippingThisLife2 (2016-2018)
      • #TrippingThisLife (2015-2016)
      • Reflections (2014)
    • Exhibitions >
      • Season of LOVE
      • FALL 2022
      • SPRING 2022
      • HYFA in Raleigh, NC (2016-2018)
      • Exhibition Summer 2015
      • Exhibition Summer 2010
      • Go Hog Wild (2010)
  • 121 Vance Street
    • HYFA studio*gallery*shop
    • shop online
    • events >
      • Season of LOVE
      • FALL 2022
      • SPRING 2022
      • Opening Day - April 22, 2022
  • educator
    • teaching artist
    • art, education, & perspectives...
  • advocate
  • about
  • blog
  • contact
    • art-work by request