Thu 5/27-5/15/22
Jordan Wong is a Cleveland-based artist and graphic designer whose work is playful, colorful and eclectic, drawing influences from Japanese anime and manga, comics, video games and traditional Chinese painting, among other things. Since he moved to the area in 2015, his work has been seen at SPACES, the Yards Project and Loop Coffee and Record Shop in Tremont, among other places.
Now it’s going at the seen at — but not IN — the Akron Art Museum. His large-scale work The 10,000 Things will be in the museum’s Bud and Susie Rogers Garden, visible to passersby on foot or in cars.
The work, we’re told, “is metaphorical as much as it is referential, containing themes of perseverance, triumph, belonging and growth.” Its title is a Taoist phrase used to describe the universe and “evokes a journey to create artwork that aspires to be as vibrant, immense, and wonderfully mysterious as existence itself.”
Wong says that he “aims to inspire, delight, and encourage viewers to generously listen, look, wonder, contemplate, play, and dream.”
The work will be viewable all summer and will be used to engage participants in Family Day events as well as self-guided scavenger hunts. It goes on view Thursday May 27.
https://akronartmuseum.org/exhibitions/the-10000-things/