On this week's episode, Sam and Teresa interview Homer Shew over a cup of lavender tea. Born in Chicago, Homer Shew is a New York-based artist who, since 2015, has been painting portraits of Asian Americans that deal with the re-aestheticisation and de-caricaturisation of Asian faces. He graduated from the Bard College in 2012, and has exhibited paintings at the CP Project Space at SVA (New York, NY), The Hyde Park Art Center (Chicago, IL), The Silent Barn (Brooklyn, NY), and Bard College (Annandale-on-Hudson, NY). A series of Shew's large-scale commissioned paintings will be on view from July 15th in the exhibition Responses: Asian American Voices Resisting the Tide of Racism at the Museum of Chinese in America (New York, NY). Shew will also be premiering his exhibition Backgrounds at the Edouard Malingue Gallery in Hong Kong from July 17th until August 28th. Shew talks to Teresa and Sam about being an artist in New York, his choice of subjects, as well as what a time beyond intensified racial conflict means.
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