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Peggy Chiang

Brooklyn, New York

It's atavism is a sculpture of a potentially life-size figure of Hot Stuff the Little Devil standing alone in a corner, illuminated by amber fog lights mounted on the opposite wall.

It's atavism

2023

WITHOUT BREAK WITH ALL POWER is a sculptural assemblage of salvaged steel and conduit is inspired by street signs, security mirrors. Parts are attached to a pivoting axis with magnets, allowing reposition. Cut spoons, shown in reverse, reflecting a convex and inverted world in tandem. A single poppy pod, cast in aluminum, extends from the frame.

WITHOUT BREAK WITH ALL POWER

2023

Toss in the asphalt is an installation in a white-walled room with large windows - a reconstruction of the back of a garbage truck stands upright against the wall. Fall leaves are scattered around the floor, piling up at the edges of the walls and in corners as if there’s wind, and a few feet from the truck is a small concrete fragment with a single cigarette burning upright.

Toss in the asphalt

2023

The cat in my brain is walking is a sculpture of a sleeping cat sealed in a pillowed vitrine. The table-like structure holds a single cast porcelain oil lamp, lit beneath an ornately cut metal can.

The cat in my brain is walking

2022

Artworks shown are selected from works submitted by the artist in their grant or residency application. All works are copyright of the artist or artist’s estate.

About Peggy Chiang

Peggy Chiang turns towards the camera in a sunny forested area. She has dark hair pulled back, medium-light skin tone, and wears a distressed white t-shirt.

Peggy Chiang (b. San Francisco) has recently exhibited at Laurel Gitlen, New York (2024), Klaus von Nichtssagend, New York (2023); hatred2, Brooklyn (2023); Moss Arts Center, Blacksburg (2023); 80WSE, New York (2022); april april, Brooklyn (2022); and Prairie, Chicago (2022). She received an MFA in Visual Arts from Rutgers University and a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art. Chiang teaches at the City College of New York, CUNY and lives in Brooklyn, NY.

Program Participation

Joan Mitchell Fellowship, 2024

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“ My work draws on the potential of ordinary and benign objects to agitate—to derail with physical and emotional fluidity. Recent works of sculpture are animated by sound, smell, or touch in ways that document time: oil-burning lamps, ringing bells, evaporating water, diffused fragrances, and lit cigarettes.”