Sung is an artist and educator born in Minnesota, bred in Singapore and now based in Brooklyn. Her practice encompasses the fields of painting, printmaking, editorial illustration, and publishing and seeks to examine and subvert the narrative paradigms and value systems embedded within our inherited stories. Inspired by Chinese historical textiles and the traditions of feminized labor, Sung’s work combines tapestries, embroidering, and beadwork with painting. Sung uses the familiar visual language of Chinese mythology and Buddhist iconography to examine and subvert conventional archetypes of femininity, queerness and otherness. Her approach pulls from the Chinese zhiguai tradition of ‘strange tales,’ where the supernatural, monstrous, and spiritual combine, and figures that are part human and part animal playact domestic and social roles while attempting to assimilate.
New York, New York