HUNGRY GHOSTS
I-Hotel Manilatown Center, San Francisco | April 2015
NBC BAY AREA’S ASIAN PACIFIC AMERICA
by Robert Handa
May 3, 2015 (air date)
“Michelle A. Lee, curator and Pallavi Sharma, artist, recap the Hungry Ghosts art exhibit in San Francisco.”
NBC BAY AREA
by NBC Bay Area Community
March 19, 2015
“The Asian American Women Artist Association, Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center, and Manilatown Heritage Foundation are joining forces to present Hungry Ghosts, a multidisciplinary art exhibition featuring the work of emerging and established Asian American and Pacific Islander artists from around the country. Located at the historic I-Hotel…”
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THE POTRERO VIEW
by The Potrero View Community Calendar
April 2015
“April 2 through April 29, Arts: AAWAA Hungry Ghosts Exhibition. Asian American Women Artist Association (AAWAA), Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center, and Manilatown Heritage Foundation present the multidisciplinary art exhibition Hungry Ghosts. Pivoting off of the traditional “Hungry Ghosts” concept, the exhibit explores the ways unresolved personal and…”
REAPPROPRIATE
by Jenn Fang
April 1, 2015
“I wake up almost every day wishing I lived in California — and not just because of the sun (and the drought) — but also because it is one of the few beating hearts of AAPI cultural and political life; I’m always bummed when I find out about an awesome event or exhibit that I can’t attend because I live elsewhere in the country. One such event is Hungry Ghosts…”
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SF CHRONICLE
by Datebook
March 29, 2015
SF CHRONICLE
by 96 Hours
April 2, 2015
SF CHRONICLE
by Nirmala Nataraj
April 23, 2015
“The concept of the hungry ghost (preta in Sanskrit, ogwi in Korean and gaki in Japanese, among others) is fairly universal in Asian cultures. Typically, a hungry ghost is represented as a female spirit who roves Earth in a state of loss, sorrow and insatiable desire, generating chaos through her obsessive search for something to fill the void…”
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SF EXAMINER
by Janos Gereben
April 7, 2015
“Potent themes of history, memory, pain and love make up ‘Hungry Ghosts.’ The multidisciplinary art show, on view in the I-Hotel Manilatown Center Gallery, features works by Asian-American women examining the Buddhist concept of the presence of lost (or unhappy) spirits in limbo before reincarnation. (The concept crosses Chinese, Indian, Japanese…”
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SF GATE
by Nirmala Nataraj
April 22, 2015
“The concept of the hungry ghost (preta in Sanskrit, ogwi in Korean and gaki in Japanese, among others) is fairly universal in Asian cultures. Typically, a hungry ghost is represented as a female spirit who roves Earth in a state of loss, sorrow and insatiable desire, generating chaos through her obsessive search for something to fill the void. Now the hungry ghost is…”
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SF WEEKLY
by Silke Tudor
April 12, 2015
“In many Asian cultures, hungry ghosts are fueled by lives of greed and jealousy, driven mad by insatiable cravings, and doomed to roam the earth in search of something — traditionally, human flesh or feces; currently, everything from drugs to tennis shoes — to fill the cavernous emptiness. It never works. They make themselves known in mass tides of violence…”