A detail from a Cici Wu installation at the 47 Canal gallery. Cici Wu, Ho King Man and Wang Xu are three such artists, who were born in China, educated in the United States and now call New York their home. In 2015 they turned their shared studio in Chinatown into an ad hoc alternative art space and impromptu residency program called Practice. In the course of the 11-minute video, Mr. Wang makes clay and fashions an oversize bust of the gardener, building layer upon layer by hand until the sculpture becomes a realistic rendition of the man before him. “We are attracted to work with an inner independence,” Mr. Ho has said, describing Practice’s criteria for working with artists.

Source: New York Times January 12, 2017 22:13 UTC