At Tina Kim Gallery in New York, curator John Yau brings together sculptures by Leo Amino, Minoru Niizuma, and John Pai to shine a light on the practices of three overlooked figures of modernism.
Poet, critic, publisher, and teacher John Yau has contributed to this expansion at Tina Kim Gallery in New York, with a show bringing together sculptures by three 20th-century Asian American modernists—Leo Amino, Minoru Niizuma, and John Pai—who each taught in some of New York's most revered institutions: Cooper Union, Pratt Institute, and Columbia University.
The Unseen Professors (18 November 2021–29 January 2022) is a rich triangulation. Each sculptor maps biographical and artistic cartographies spanning East and West, which intersect in New York City at a time when exemplary figures of Minimalism and the postmodern avantgarde were making a name for themselves.
