Mixed media: Paper, gouache, cutout postcards and photographs, musical
ornaments, confetti.
When Flo Oy Wong had her 75th birthday celebration, she
requested her artist friends to make a pie or two for her
exhibition, “Flo Oy Wong: The Whole Pie,” at the Luggage Store
Gallery. Nancy Hom created two - a “pizza” pie in honor of Rasselas,
the club she used to hang out at in the Fillmore, using cutouts of
photos of the people at the club and little music ornaments.
Rasselas closed that year.
Nancy also
made a
Chinese Opera pie in honor of Bob's father and
the kunqu opera club, using photos of Beijing opera stars that
Bob took for his project, “Unsung Opera,” which she curated.
Kunqu is the root of all Chinese opera.
For the exhibition, Flo invited 75 local,
regional and national artists to contribute art pies. All
of these works created by Wong and the invited artists
share a common thread. They are narratives which either
address the deconstruction of a stereotype or tell the
stories of under-represented men and women whose lives and
hard work have made a significant yet unknown difference
in this country.