Andrew Kung
Flower Boys
8½ x 11" Archival pigment print6½ x 8½" Image size
Edition of 22
Each print is editioned and signed by the artist.
About the Series
In "Dreaming on the Hudson", I recompose the Hudson River School’s romanticized paintings of the river valley by staging scenes of Asian American men casted along the Hudson. Each constructed scene - while challenging the iconography of the American landscape - recontextualizes the relationship between nature and belonging, identity and masculinity, and history and erasure.Whitewashed through the means of the expansionist project, the national landscape has historically signified a collective and imagined identity that dictated participation in the natural world. Despite major contributions on American land - constructing the Transcontinental Railroad, advancing the nation’s agricultural infrastructure, pledging allegiance in war - Asian migrants have largely been misrepresented and invisible.Through intimate scenes of friendship, the casted subjects are reimagined as cultural citizens of America’s first iconic landscape, the Hudson River Valley, and are ultimately reclaiming and contesting the history of land ownership, power, and their stake in the American pastoral.Artist Bio
Andrew Kung is a photographer living and working in Brooklyn, New York. His work often centers on contested ideas of place, identity, and belonging. From subverting the male gaze to exploring the absences and omissions in Asian American history, he often draws upon personal experiences to present a reimagined cultural citizenship.Andrew is a 2024 Light Work artist-in-residence, 2024 Houston Center for Photography Center Annual Selected Artist, 2024 En Foco Photography Fellow, and has been previously awarded by PhotoVogue, LensCulture, Photolucida, and Maine Media's Arnold Newman Prize.
$125.00Price