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Edward Pien
Invisible Sightings
May 30–June 29, 1997

The process-oriented work of Edward Pien addresses a number of issues for the artist. The mass production of similar drawings on a daily basis, his process is at once a means for divulging his state of being and a means to represent the repetitive and relentless assembly-line work that he identifies with the experience of new immigrants, particularly his own mother. Also inherent in Pien’s work is an examination of culturally constructed identity or as he puts it, “the mass-produced self”. By co-opting the means of production that threaten identity, Pien is able to comment on the process of cultural stereotyping, and in that process, reclaim his own identity.