Lives of Three Canners
An exhibition featuring oil portraits of three elderly Chinese immigrants who collect cans for a living in the Lower East Side and Chinatown and who the artist has befriended over the years. Nine paintings illuminate their lives at home, on the street, as their younger selves doing work available to poor immigrants (garment factories, restaurants, homecare); and their work in China before migration. For exhibition at Gallery 456 in Soho in fall 2023.