The artwork features a large, cylindrical copper form that dominates the composition. The striking metallic surface reflects the surrounding environment, creating a sense of depth and illusion. The dark, atmospheric background enhances the sculptural quality of the object, drawing the viewer's attention to its minimalist, geometric design. This work exemplifies the artist's interest in exploring the interplay between industrial materials and natural settings, inviting the audience to contemplate the relationship between the man-made and the natural world. ...
Stella Zhong’s practice engages built environments, cryptic objects, and precisely enacted events to express an urgency for nonconformity. With a naughty approach to astrophysics and anthropology, Zhong builds worlds as propositions. She creates models radically scaled to make space for logic to deviate and models that simulate alternative modes of power, knowledge creation, and empathy. Zhong is invested in dislocating the human-centric perspective. By bringing together the unlikeliest objects within incongruent spatial relationships, her work navigates the gap between dissociation and transformation, reassessing notions of belonging and anonymity. ...
Commonwealth and Council is a gallery in Koreatown, Los Angeles founded in 2010. Our program is rooted in our commitment to explore how a community of artists can sustain our co-existence through generosity and hospitality. Commonwealth and Council celebrates our manifold identities and experiences through the shared dialogue of art—championing practices by women, queer, POC, and our ally artists to build counter-histories that reflect our individual and collective realities. ...
