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Happy World Book Day! Throwback to the Zhongshuge bookstore I went to last month. 😍 Designed by X+Living. 📍: Shenzhen, China. // (c) Jenny Lam 2024

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artistsonthelam · 15 hours

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Happy Earth Day! Here are Haystack Rock and Butterflies, two photographs 22-year-old photographer Hayden Minor has in my zine, LAMINATOR Vol. 1. Based in Joliet, Illinois, Hayden enjoys capturing Earth's natural beauty through its landscapes and animals using his digital camera. // LAMINATOR (c) Jenny Lam 2024

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Just watched Late Night with the Devil and loved it. That analog horror 🤌 And it's 97% on Rotten Tomatoes!

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artistsonthelam · 3 days

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Relatable! // (my tweet)

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Happy National Poetry Month! Chicago poet Jamiece Adams has two poems in my zine, LAMINATOR Vol. 1—“21st and Maple” and “In Defense of Melancholy”—that make my heart ache whenever I read them. Here's the full text of the former.

Jamiece Adams is a Black genderqueer writer. She was a Lambda Literary Fellow in 2019. Her work has been published in Rabbit: Nonfiction Poetry Journal, The Lambda Literary Anthology of Emerging LGBTQ+ Writers, Hypertext Magazine, and elsewhere. She was nominated for an Illinois Arts Council award in fiction for her piece “The Solitude of Sleep.”

Also, Jamiece is co-hosting a Threewalls salon called “In-Session | The Porch: Places of Belonging” at Soul Full Chicago on May 15. Congratulations, Jamiece!

LAMINATOR (c) Jenny Lam 2024

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artistsonthelam · 6 days

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63 // (my tweet)

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artistsonthelam · 8 days

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Folks from Hong Kong are known for their street smarts and resourcefulness c'mon!! // (my Threads post)

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artistsonthelam · 9 days

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Happy 12th anniversary to 2012's I CAN DO THAT, the rule-breaking interactive group show featuring over 40 artists from around the world that I created and independently curated based on how a lot of people go up to contemporary art and say, “Well, I can do that,” or “my kid could do that.” So at the show I had the artists’ original art supplies in front of each piece, as well as blank canvases and other surfaces, and challenged people to see if they could, indeed, “do that,” or if they felt like they could improve a piece, they were able to directly paint or make any mark on that original work of art. It was glorious fun, and was eventually named audience choice for “Best Art Exhibit” in the 20th anniversary edition of NewCity's Best of Chicago issue.

Read more here.

View 76 photos total on Flickr & Facebook.

📷: Sophia Nahli Allison

// I CAN DO THAT (c) Jenny Lam 2012

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artistsonthelam · 9 days

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Some of my favorites from the VIP Preview and Opening Night of Expo Chicago on Thursday. The art fair is now open to the public!

1. Declassified CIA documents chronicling US interventions replacing left-wing governments with right-wing regimes, primarily in Latin America. Voluspa Jarpa, Desclasificados (Declassified), NOME.

2. Monica Ikegwu, Jessica and Jazz, Galerie Myrtis.

3. After viewing the above booth, I heard someone shout, "JENNY?!" and it was my friend Krystal Boney, pictured here with Manolo Valdés, Helene I - Gustav Klimt Judith, bogéna galerie. We hadn't seen each other in 5 years! And we ended up walking the entire fair together (even though she'd gotten there earlier and had seen most of it already) and it was so great. <3 Running into friends is always the best part about Expo!

4. Manyaku Mashilo, How About a New Way to Pray, Southern Guild.

5. This painter is always a favorite of mine. Antonio Santín, Alboroto, Marc Straus.

6. Thandiwe Muriu, Camo-Untitled, 193 Gallery.

7. Nir Hod, 100 Years Is Not Enough and Scratches of Butterfly, Michael Kohn Gallery.

8. Selfie by Krystal of us in front of the above. I'm not ducking down; Krystal was amused she could do this.

9. Whitfield Lovell, Wayfarer series, DC Moore Gallery.

10. Jacob Rochester, Residency Art Gallery.11. Mohau Modisakeng, Imvu Nomfula (The Lamb and the River), Martin Art Projects.

12. Stephen Eichhorn, Window to the (Passion Flower), Secrist | Beach.

13. Robert Pruitt, Monster and Lemon Tree, Vielmetter Los Angeles.

14. Anahita Akhavan, Duran | Mashaal.

15. Ian Davenport, Blossom, Kasmin.

16. Olasunkanmi Akomolehin, Kornfeld Galerie Berlin.

17. Kim Piotrowski, Caprice, McCormick Gallery.

18. Zanele Muholi, Galerie Carole Kvasnevski.

19. Bassim Al Shaker, Swarming, Resurrection, and Termination, Rhona Hoffman Gallery.

20. Seba Calfuqueo, Labor.

[Edit: Thank you Carol Fox and Associates for sharing my Instagram post in your stories and thank you Do312 for retweeting my Twitter thread!]

// (c) Jenny Lam 2024

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artistsonthelam · 12 days

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I went into my external hard drive and found my photos of Emme (my maternal cousin Phil's cute and clever little Yorkie) from when I first met her in 2014 so here's a crappy little collage I hastily put together haha. 10 years ago vs. a few weeks ago in Hong Kong! Happy National Pet Day! '14 photo of me by Phil on my iPhone 5s & 2024 photos of me by my mom on her point-and-shoot. ^^ // (c) Jenny Lam

#yorkshire terrier #yorkies #pets #senior dog #cute dogs #cute dog #dog #doggo #dogs of tumblr #dogs #me #photography #travel #travel photography #hong kong #yorkie #tomboy #tomboy style #portraits

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artistsonthelam · 14 days

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Shot on my iPhone 5s in 2015, my photo One Step at a Time has been awarded an Honorable Mention in the 13th Annual Mobile Photography Awards in the Silhouettes category! This is my 3rd year in a row being selected by the MPA. Thank you and congrats to everyone!

(My photo: A candid of a stranger walking down the spiral staircase in the Morton Wing of the Art Institute of Chicago.)

More of my mobile photography here.

// (c) Jenny Lam

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artistsonthelam · 15 days

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The 1st solar eclipse I experienced was in 1994. During her lunch break, my mom came all the way from work to watch it with me at school. 💛 I was 6 and remember standing out on the blacktop to view it with a pinhole projector I made in class. My mom also bought these solar viewers from The Nature Company (RIP). And guess what? She found them again! (I say again because I also brought one of these to the 2017 eclipse viewing party in Logan Square and a bunch of folks asked to borrow it and said the retro~ viewer works better than today's glasses. 😎 Also how was 2017 seven years ago??)

(Back home from Hong Kong to watch the Great North American Eclipse!) Happy eclipse day, everyone!

// (c) Jenny Lam 2024

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artistsonthelam · 16 days

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A photo I took of my parents in Shenzhen a couple weeks ago. ❤️

As our big travel comeback (we hadn't traveled since late 2019-early January 2020), originally they suggested November 2023 for Hong Kong (where they were born and raised) to eat good food and visit family. I then proposed that if we go to HK, we might as well go during Art Basel (which is every March) like I used to do on my own every year, so March 2024 it was then. I also recommended that we should add a little excursion to Shenzhen across the Bay since it had been 10 years since I last/first visited and back then it was just an art-related day trip with an auntie and uncle, and the city's become so wondrously futuristic since then.

Like all HKers who visit SZ, my parents enjoyed Shenzhen very much (same) (example: there's a big bowl of wonton noodles with surprise char siu that was so tender—the fat melted right in your mouth—my mom kept raving about it) and joked about having a change of plans and staying there to eat and relax while I returned to HK for Basel. 😂 To both cities: Until next time!

// (c) Jenny Lam 2024

#love #fun #family #parents #blue sky #shenzhen #china #chinese #chinese american #immigrants #aapi #asian american #travel #travel photography #photography #photo #portrait #mom #dad #outdoors

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artistsonthelam · 16 days

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Seeing a junk up close will never get old. (This one happened to zoom right past.) After emerging onto the Tsim Sha Tsui Promenade after a fun extended family/Lamily dinner (one of many) in the Hong Kong Cultural Centre last week. // (c) Jenny Lam 2024

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artistsonthelam · 17 days

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🌲 Joyful Trees (Arbores Laetae) installation by architectural group Diller Scofidio + Renfro at Oil Street Art Space, Hong Kong, featuring 16 Chinese Junipers, three of which are placed on rotating planter box turntables at a 10-degree tilt. 🌲 // (c) Jenny Lam 2024

#juniper #tree #trees #birdsong #birds #hong kong #nature #outdoors #video #travel #city #city garden #art #installation art #art installation #contemporary art #kinetic art

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artistsonthelam · 18 days

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Selfie(?) at last week’s Art Central Hong Kong VIP Preview. 👋 Breakfast, Mississippi River Oxygen, HOFA Gallery. // (c) Jenny Lam 2024

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artistsonthelam · 19 days

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These are pencil drawings on paper! 🤯 Ana de Alvear, Espacio Valverde, last week at the Art Central Hong Kong VIP Preview. // (c) Jenny Lam 2024

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