Into View: Bernice Bing Oct 7, 2022 – Dec 4, 2023 Asian Art Museum
An exploration of Bernice Bing’s art, life, and enduring legacy, featuring some of the Bay Area’s most accomplished Asian American women artists and activists.
Filmmaker Madeleine Lim’s “The Worlds of Bernice Bing” (34 min.) documents the importance of Bing’s work to American art history: from her studio in North Beach to her groundbreaking community work and later life in rural northern California, Bing chose not to follow the trends of the day, instead creating art on her own terms. Executive-produced by the Asian American Women Artists Association and the Queer Women of Color Media Arts Project, the film explores the many layers of identity — Abstract Expressionist painter, Beat-era existentialist, Buddhist, feminist, Chinese American, lesbian — that informed Bing’s art and activism. Panelists discuss the timeliness of Bing’s legacy in a discussion moderated by Jen Banta Yoshida, featuring contemporary artists and activists Lenore Chinn, Kim Anno, Nancy Hom, and Diana Li.
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