BETH LO

ARTWORK

Beth Lo
“Chinese American Take Out II”
2023
slip cast porcelain, brass rod
13 x 12 x 7″

Beth Lo
“Take Out Boy”
2021
porcelain
12 x 11 x 6.5″

For the Take Out Box series represented in this exhibition, I use the idea of food as a symbol for nourishment and formative influence.

Growing up Chinese by blood but American by environment, I was “fed” and formed by both Asian and Western cultures. The impermanence and throw-away nature of the classic Chinese take out box and the McDonald’s style clamshell box reinforce the everyday aspects of these influences, as well as reminding us of our unfortunate disregard.

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Beth Lo
“Chinese American To Go”
2023
slip cast porcelain, brass rod
4 x 9 x 5″ (each)

Beth Lo
“Yat Son, East Helena, Montana, (from Chinese Restaurants of the West Series)”
2023, porcelain
9 x 14 x .5″

Beth Lo
“Shelter”
2021
porcelain
24 x 13″

Beth Lo
“Model Minority”
2022
porcelain
5.5 x 10.5 x 5″

My work in ceramics and mixed media revolves primarily around issues of family and my Asian-American background.  Cultural marginality and blending, tradition vs. Westernization, language and translation are key elements in my work. 

Since the birth of my son in 1987, I have been drawing inspiration from major events in my family’s history, the day-to-day challenges of parenting, and my own childhood memories of being raised in a minority culture in the United States.  I use the image of a child as a symbol of innocence, potential and vulnerability.

For the Model Minority series, I am satirizing the stereotypical idealizations of Chinese immigrants to the US, as well as questioning the values that are being espoused.

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