AboutJade Yumang
Installation of soft sculptures supported by bamboo structures extended with yarn to a large filet net with an embroidered portrait.

Next Door, Around the Corner, Inside the Bathhouse, By the Sea, and Back

Installation view of a group show, titled High Touch, curated by Kaytie Johnson at John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, USA. The installation is based on a typical 1960s ranch house façade, which is flattened and then used as a floorplan for plinths and walls for the 17 sculptures to inhabit. The foundation for each sculpture is a constructed and dyed wooden frame dressed with different fiber techniques, such as weaving (using an 8-shaft floor loom), dyeing, repeat pattern printing on cotton and wallpaper, coiling, tufting, embroidery, crocheting, knitting, netting, and sewing by hand and machine.

Open House Spatter
Striped wall piece in pink, cyan, and yellow tones composed using needle appliqué and dye in magenta and teal framed with an awning on top.

Prolonged Physical Contact
An installation shot of a show at Craft Council Main Gallery in St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada. The installation consists of several works using piecing and quilting as the main techniques that are turned into sculptures and matched with contemporaneous materials from the 1960s. On the floor are portrait quilts of Clark Polak’s mug shots.

Drum Up
An installation shot of a show at Art League Houston. The installation is lit by two light sources (light bulb and projector) to cast shadows around the gallery. White satin panels are silkscreened devoré, which eats away the cellulose portion of the fabric. This technique keeps the silk structure of the material intact to reveal portraits that are only clearly visible and sharp through the shadow. Edited and looped videos of queer characters from several films are projected through porous sculptures made from polyethylene to mimic nitrate film resulting in a mottled image on the wall.

In the Shadows
An installation shot of a show at TRUCK Contemporary Art, Calgary, Alberta, Canada. The installation consists of 28 free-standing and wall sculptures. Each sculpture consists of a yard of printed fabric cut and stitched with contemporaneous fabric and notions from the 1970s.

Thumb Through
Detail shot of a white t-shirt stretched on wooden bars. The bottom half of the shirt is netted using a knotting technique.

Boyfriend Tee
Installation shot of a show at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA. The installation consists of red balloons hanging from red yarn attached to the ceiling, on the floor are soft sculptures in red with cylindrical elements made with vinyl, and there are small talon-like sculptures made with red vinyl and ceramic nails.

Fieldwork
Install shot of framed prints in a group show at Trestle Gallery in Brooklyn.

Hot House Flowers
A performance of the artist, Jade Yumang, who is wearing a handmade costume while hammering and destroying a drywall with a video projection of the artist holding a smile in a black box theater.

Smile
Detail shot of sleeping performance on hand cut paper sculpture.

A Suspension of Voluntary Bodily Functions

A pen drawing using blue ink on white rag paper. The drawing is a figure sitting on an amorphous shape of lines coming out of their mouth and eyes.

Body Meld
Detailed shot of a papercut technique using a 2012 gay guide. The colors are flesh tones with orange and yellow hues.

Weeklies
Detailed shot of a papercut technique using a gay pornographic magazine revealing layers from each page. The colors are flesh tones and blues and pinks.

Ooze
Installation shot of group show at Centro de Desarrollo de las Artes Visuales in Havana, Cuba.

Limerent Objects
Installation shot of solo show consisting of woodcuts and one large photograph in primary colors.

Hard Candy
Papercut of repeat patterned and gay pornography in white paper with pinned painted moth.

Like Moths to Flaming Boys