Public Programs
Presented by YBCA |
August 1, 2024, 5-9 PM
See Nick Dong: 11 to 88 during Downtown First Thursdays! From 5-9pm on Thursday, August 1, experience Nick Dong’s immersive installations and mesmerizing objects. Enjoy a cash bar and see the exhibition during its final month. Last admission is at 9pm, with galleries closing at 9:30pm.
RSVP to join us and spark your sense of wonder!
Limited capacity for the “Dharma Wheel of Ego and Egoless.” Upon check-in, visitors will be assigned a timeslot for entry. First come, first served.
Nick Dong 董承濂 (b. 1973, Taiwan; based in Oakland and Taipei) is a multidisciplinary artist whose experiential mixed-media sculptures, wearable objects, and installations combine an advanced knowledge of materials and technique with a gift for elevating an audience’s experience beyond the optical. By seamlessly integrating sophisticated engineering and metalsmithing components, supernatural movements, light, sound, and various interactive or situational strategies, Dong’s practice creates a fully immersive event, only complete once a participant’s encounter is initiated.
Nick Dong: 11 to 88 is curated by Martin Strickland, independent curator.
The Nick Dong: 11 to 88 YBCA project team includes: Yoni Asega, Manager of Exhibition Design; O Soo Vegh, Exhibition Project Manager + Registrar; David Tim, Head Preparator, Project Design; and David Prigge, Senior Preparator.
YBCA is grateful to the preparator team who made this exhibition possible: Amy Bergstein, German Hoyle, Calvin Jones, Linden Julien-Lehr, Lauren Kenward, Maren Mouhanna, Savio Pisani, Asher Quinn, and Kelsey Westphal.
Nick Dong is grateful to the following: Stephen Carter-Hicks, music composer; Brian Chen, studio manager; Julian Chu, studio administrator; Nicholas Bell, James Bull, Henri Dark-Fleury, and Max Lizama Sutton, studio assistants.
YBCA Programs are made possible in part by the City and County of San Francisco, MacKenzie Scott, Kenneth Rainin Foundation, San Francisco Arts Commission (SFAC), #StartSmall, Bloomberg Philanthropies, Marilyn Conrad Trust, New England Foundation for the Arts, California Arts Council, The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Institute of Museum and Library Services, William G. Irwin Charity Foundation, The Bernard Osher Foundation, The Sato Foundation, Gaia Fund, Office of Mayor London N. Breed, San Francisco Office of Economic and Workforce Development, National Endowment for the Arts, Yerba Buena Community Benefit District, Bay Area Mind and Music Society, GitHub, Harvey and Leslie Wagner Foundation, McNabb Foundation, Raymond James Charitable, Savant Group Charitable Foundation, The Building Works, Fremont Group Foundation, Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, Farhang Foundation, and YBCA Members.
Exhibitions
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