Exhibition
Location
Olive Tjaden Gallery
Tjaden Hall
M–F, 8 a.m.–4:30 p.m.
Contact
Department of Art
(607) 255-6730
Abstract
A Wet, Hot, American Summer depicts the systemic racism that exists within American society through a yellow figure living a rural, Middle American life who prides herself on the whitewashed idea of liberty, cowboy culture, and republicanism. Although the yellow figure drastically contrasts the rest of the world, she shows confidence in her place with a defiant dominance of these spaces. In juxtaposing the two images of an oriental outsider in a cheesy, wet, hot American summer, Kim hopes to call out the ironic and drastic gap between the subject’s actual place within these spaces and the façade she creates to prove her flawless assimilation into society.
Biography
Kacey Minseo Kim (B.F.A. ’25) is an installation artist based between Los Angeles and New York. Kim explores the tensions inherent in her identity as an Asian American woman through her work. She appropriates racially charged stereotypes and symbols as a way of retelling and rebelling against reductive immigrant narratives. Kim hopes to open up the difficult but necessary conversations about America’s historic and ongoing racism. Kim is pursuing her Fine Arts Bachelors Degree at Cornell University and has been recognized by the National YoungArts Foundation and the Scholastics Art & Writing Awards.
