Jacky Tsai’s First US Museum Exhibition — Crystal Bridges Men of Steel, Women of Wonder — a group exhibition at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.
09th Feb 2019
Jacky Tsai’s first exhibition in a US museum took place at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, as part of the group exhibition Men of Steel, Women of Wonder. Presented from 9 February to 22 April 2019, the exhibition explored artists’ responses to Superman and Wonder Woman, from their comic-book origins to contemporary reinterpretations.
Tsai was represented by The Golden Fortune Tree (2017), a lacquer carving on wood panel. The work brings Western superheroes and figures from Chinese visual culture into a shared, vividly coloured landscape. Its meeting of traditional craftsmanship and popular imagery gives a distinctive cross-cultural perspective to the exhibition’s exploration of familiar American icons.
The Golden Fortune Tree in Men of Steel, Women of Wonder, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, 2019.
The presentation marked an important step in Tsai’s international exhibition history, bringing his work into dialogue with a wider museum audience in the United States.
Gallery view of Men of Steel, Women of Wonder, 2019.
Men of Steel, Women of Wonder Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas 9 February – 22 April 2019 Group exhibition
