Made in Chinatown USA

Title: Made in Chinatown USA
LC Subject: Photography--Special effects Lithography Lithography--Printing Collagraph printing mixed media collagraph printing photolithography
Creator: Law, Horatio Hung-Yan
Description: A mixed media art piece featuring two black and white photographs, both of children, set against a square grid background. The square grid background is in brown with koi fish colored in blue and beige. Below the two photographs are six fortune cookies. Horatio Hung-yan Law; Made in Chinatown U.S.A.; 1994; Collagraph with Photolitho Chine Colle and Fortune Cookies; 22x30 inches Born in Hong Kong, at age 16 Law immigrated with his family to New York City, where he stayed through high school. He then moved to Baltimore to study pre-med. “Molecular biology was the rage at Johns Hopkins, and I was just so bored,” he says with a laugh. “I could not connect with that at all, but I was obligated to finish it.” He returned to New York and got a research job at Columbia University, where he could take classes for free. “When I took my first painting class, it was like a light bulb turned on. I wasn't sure what was happening, I just knew it was important, so I kept taking art classes, and soon I was doing like three art classes at night and doing a full-time job, helping out my family business in Chinatown.” He quit the day job and went on to earn his BFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York, a printmaking diploma from Il Bisonte International School of Graphic Arts in Italy, and his MFA from Washington University in St. Louis. A residency brought Law to Portland in 1994; he then taught briefly at the University of Oregon and considered a move to the Bay Area, but found it a difficult place for artists. “I love Portland. I think it’s the kind of city that is very open to young artists, and a city that really cares about its citizens,“ he says. “It’s easier to survive here. It has the amenities of a big city but also it doesn’t have the grittiness…it’s a nice combination of things.” (see biography at http://www.pnca.edu/exposure/stories/21/horatio-hung-yan-law) horatiolaw@gmail.com The Oregon Arts Commission has ten Regional Arts Councils that provide delivery of art services and information. The Council for this location is Regional Arts & Culture. You may view their website at http://www.racc.org/
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Location: Oregon Health and Science University >> Multnomah County >> Oregon >> United States Multnomah County >> Oregon >> United States
Street Address: 3181 S.W. Sam Jackson Park Road, Portland Oregon
Date: 1975/2012
Identifier: 1995_portland_ohsu_i-w_06_a01
Accession Number: 1995_portland_ohsu_i-w_06_a01
Rights: In Copyright
Dc Rights Holder: Law, Horatio Hung-Yan
Type: Image
Format: image/tiff
Material: Mixed media photolithography, collagraphy and fortune cookies
Set: Oregon Percent for Art
Primary Set: Oregon Percent for Art
Relation: 1995 Oregon Health Sciences University. Artists I-W, Portland Oregon 1995_portland_ohsu_i-w
Has Version: slide; color
Institution: Oregon Arts Commission University of Oregon
Note: Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) was formed in 1974 as the University of Oregon Health Sciences Center. It was renamed Oregon Health Sciences University in 1981 and took its current name in 2001, as part of a merger with the Oregon Graduate Institute of Science and Technology in Beaverton.<br><br>For a map of OHSU's Marquam Campus, see http://www.ohsu.edu/about/campusmap.pdf
Color Space: RGB
Biographical Information: "Made in Chinatown, U.S.A." is a part of a six-piece Immigrant Series, focusing on the experience of Chinese Immigrants in the Northwest, past and present. (Law, 1995)