A List
10/27/03

CULTURAL, ETHNIC IDENTITY EXPLORED IN SLU GALLERY EXHIBITION

CANTON – "GAM: Poaching Dürer's Hare," an exhibition of work by artist Joel 
Seah, will be in the Richard F. Brush Art Gallery November 10 through December 
13. Seah will give a performance on Tuesday, December 2, at 7:30 p.m. in the 
gallery, followed by a reception. It is open to the public, free of charge.
      Seah was raised in Singapore in a Chinese family that valued occidental 
thought, and his work, which deals with ideas about displacement and bi-cultural 
dialogue, reflects this heritage. Trained as a printmaker, he is drawn to a 
multi-disciplinary practice that utilizes performance, installation, photography, 
video and sculpture to try to rediscover "what it means to be Chinese today." 
His work has been shown in Birmingham, Alabama, where he received his B.F.A. 
at the University of Alabama, as well as in Singapore, Melbourne and Toronto. 
He is currently a second-year M.F.A. candidate in printmaking at Syracuse 
University.
      In "Poaching Dürer's Hare," 1,000 tracings of a color Xerox of Albrecht 
Dürer's A Young Hare are exhibited, each copy a tracing of the one before it. 
"GAM" is Seah's "commentary on a contemporary form of Orientalism wherein 
North American Gay White Males (GWMs) [use the Internet to] seek...Gay Asian 
Males (GAMs)." By exploring themes of desire for the exotic "other," he maps 
the intersections of sex, racism and sexuality.
      For more information or to arrange individual or group tours, contact 
the gallery at 315-229-5174.

-30-

Back To News Releases
Back to St. Lawrence Homepage