Edgewater Branch hosts an Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month art exhibit through the month of May featuring artist Mark Yee.
Mark Yee's abstract paintings are autobiographical. A first generation Chinese-American, he lived a life scripted by others and by the expectations of those around him. He ran his life according to those scripts and the real picture of him was buried beneath. In a similar way, his paintings have dozens or hundreds of layers of paint, with the core layers buried beneath the surface. Yee scrapes and sands the surface to free the colors from below. But then, oddly, he finds himself adding more paint. It is a a non-stop cycle of adding and removing. The process is compulsive and freeing at the same time.
