EXCEEDS EXPECTATIONS

Guest Curated by Phaan Howng, On View Across Multiple Venues 

Friday, May 2 – Saturday, May 31

Gallery Hours

• 16 W. North Avenue: Friday 5 – 8 p.m.  |  Saturday 12 – 3 p.m.

• Currency Studio: Thursday – Friday, 1 – 5 p.m.  |  Saturday, 12 – 3 p.m.

• Motor House: Friday 11a.m. - 1.p.m. l 
  Monday & Wednesday, 7 p.m. – 12 a.m.
  Thursday – Saturday, 6 – 10 p.m.  |  

• Club Car: Friday – Saturday, 6 p.m. – 1 a.m.  |  Sunday, 5 – 10 p.m.

• Mobtown Ballroom and Café:
  Monday – Friday, 8 a.m. – 3 p.m. | Monday, 7 – 11 p.m. |  Friday, 7 – 11:30 p.m.

 

EXCEEDS EXPECTATIONS features the work of 25 artists of the APIMEDA diaspora who live and create in the Baltimore and the DMV area. The exhibition title is a sardonic nod to what the phrase “exceeds expectations” triggers across the APIMEDA community while also showcasing works that transgress inherent preconceptions of artworks expected to be seen at an AAPI exhibition during AAPI heritage month. 

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The artists selected for this exhibition create spectacularly audacious artworks using their chosen medium and independent visual languages. Through their stylistic choices, humor, subject matter, and more, their artworks visually deviate from all stereotyped clichéd within traditional cultural art settings. In addition, this year's Asia North exhibition exceeds the scope of our previous Asia North exhibitions by taking place in more locations in unexpected ways from Motor House to spaces throughout North Avenue Market.

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To honor the Charles North neighborhood's ongoing transformation from a historic Koreatown to a diverse arts district, the exhibit also includes research from AA&CC’s Greater Baltimore Asian Community History Project.

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Guest curated by Phaan Howng with Nerissa Paglinauan.

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FEATURED ARTISTS

Reed Bmore, Thea Canlas, Neil Chatterjee, Cindy Cheng, Se Jong Cho, YunKyoung Cho, Sutton Demlong, Ameena Fareeda, Taha Heydari, Tae Hwang, Kei Ito, Zara Kahan, Gaeun Kim, Wednesday Kim, Andrew Liang, Yefu Liu, Katherine Mann, Audrey Naiva, Nova Pan, Sookkyung Park, Emon Surakitkoson, Clipber Tran, Thiang Uk, Stephanie J. Williams, and Lite Zhang.

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ADDITIONAL EVENTS
May 2nd Opening Celebration 7PM - UNTIL

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May 28th "Still Life Longing" 6PM - 8PM 
In this Asia North event, artist Thea Canlas will guide participants through painting a still life as part of her series of works titled "Still Life: Longing", on view in this year's Asia North exhibition, EXCEEDS EXPECTATIONS, curated by Phaan Howng. Thea's piece, “Still Life: Longing,” is a series of installations of locally sourced Pilipino foods as an homage to the immigrant experience of searching for home (or close enough to home) in unfamiliar terrain.

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May 31st Closing Celebration 6PM - Until