VisArts is pleased to present Katherine Tzu-Lan Mann: “Seed Float.” The new exhibition opens October 11 and will be on view in the 355 POD Space Gallery through January 19, 2025. An opening celebration will be held November 22 from 7-9 p.m.

Artist’s Statement

I examine landscape painting, environment, and cultural estrangement by building luxuriant, cinematically scaled paper paintings and installations.

These combine romantic, utopian and immersive sensibilities from both Chinese and Western landscape painting with a lexicon drawn from a personal mythology informed by my identity as a biracial, second generation Asian American: ribbons, baubles, bats, peaches, sperm, piles of flowers repeated so many times as to appear biomorphic and alien, but bursting with incongruous efflorescence.

These pieces have two primary concerns: the exploration of landscape in a world where “landscape” is defined through an ever-widening field of digital, graphic, and visual forms, and the insertion of personal world building—a world of fragmentation, hybridity, and incongruity—into that history.

About the Artist

Katherine Tzu-Lan Mann is the recipient of the Sustainable Arts Foundation grant, a Fulbright grant, the AIR Gallery and Lower East Side Printshop Keyholder Fellowships, and the Mayor’s Award and Hamiltonian Fellowship in Washington, D.C.

Mann has shown her work at various venues, including the Kreeger Museum, Academy Art Museum, Walters Art Museum, American University Museum, Tides Museum, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Rawls Museum, the U.S. consulate in Dubai, UAE, and the U.S. embassy in Yaounde, Cameroon.