My latest for @hyperallergic.com

Partial Octagon (Emerald Green) gouache, paper, nails dimensions variable 2024 installed in studio, August 2025 (approx. 4.5 x 8.5 feet) #alexpaik

This summer was filled with injury recovery, PT appointments, child care, and other things 😵‍💫 but I finally finished this new modular installation. #alexpaik Partial Right Triangle (Aqua Blue) gouache, paper, pins dimensions variable 2025 installed in studio, August 2025 (approx. 4.5 x 6 feet)

#WillRawls at #ICALA

#TakakoYamaguchi at #MOCALA

#WillRawls at #ICALA

Who wants to give me a big wall so I can fill it with pattern? 😅 Partial Octagon (Emerald Green) gouache, paper, nails dimensions variable 2024 installed in studio, May 2025 (approx. 5 x 7.5 feet) #alexpaik

Ruth Asawa’s iconic looped wire sculptures are the star of her retrospective at SFMOMA. The seemingly infinite variations that she found within the limits of the medium are staggering — the best reductive abstractionists can spend a lifetime trying to achieve the same thing.

My review of the #RuthAsawa retrospective at SFMoma on @hyperallergic.com hyperallergic.com/1027751/ruth...

Tickets for our fundraiser are now live! Don’t miss out on early bird pricing! givebutter.com/tsabenefit25

Improvisation #3 from Partial Hexagon (Cadmium Yellow Orange) gouache on paper 6.25 x 6.25 x 1.25 inches 2025 #alexpaik

Partial Equilateral Triangle (Magenta) gouache, paper, nails dimensions variable 2024 installed in studio, May 2025 (approx. 5 x 6.5 feet) #alexpaik

Improvisation #2 from Partial Hexagon (Cadmium Yellow Orange) gouache on paper 7.75 x 7.75 x 0.5 inches 2025 #alexpaik

Ten Asian diasporic artists explore how we create our self-images through technology, media, and cultural representation in “my hands are monsters who believe in magic” at Pasadena’s Armory Center for the Arts.

My latest for Hyperallergic hyperallergic.com/1015060/asia...

Improvisation #1 from Partial Hexagon (Cadmium Yellow Orange) gouache on paper 7 x 7 x 0.5 inches 2025 #alexpaik

Some new drawings 👀 #alexpaik

🎼 Some of you may know that classical music was my first artistic love, so it feels very special to have written this piece for LA Phil’s Seoul Festival and GYOPO Diasporic Refractions. www.laphil.com/about/watch-...

#JeffreyGibson at #BroadMuseum

Some more new drawings. #alexpaik

Another formation 🐦 Partial Equilateral Triangle (Magenta) gouache, paper, nails dimensions variable 2024 installed in studio, April 2025 (approx. 4 x 6 feet) #alexpaik

#YoshikazuTanaka at #ATLA

Some recent drawings ✏️ #alexpaik

💫 A new formation 💫 Partial Equilateral Triangle (Magenta) gouache, paper, nails dimensions variable 2024 installed in studio, April 2025 (approx. 4.5 x 6.25 feet) #alexpaik

Thank you #AhreeLee for the walkthrough of your show at #CraftContemporary for @gyopo.us ! Beautiful show using the links between computing and weaving to think about hybridity and the histories of gendering making.

These four little ones are currently on view #Ruschwoman in Chicago. Check out the show if you can! I’m Still Jenny from the Color Block RUSCHWOMAN March 16 — May 4, 2025 #alexpaik

It's the final day of our fundraiser and we still need 40 new patrons! Help us continue creating an art world we can all be proud of! Become a Patreon supporter today at patreon.com/tigerstrikesasteroid.

President Trump issued an executive order targeting so-called “race-centered ideology” in the Smithsonian Institution, conflating critical examinations of the nation’s oppression of women, people of color, and other groups with “anti-American” sentiment.

Beautiful space/time-collapsing work by #MaiaCruzPalileo at #DavidKordansky

What a poignant show by @claudiaparducci.bsky.social at #OchiGallery . Elegant work about loss and ephemerality packaged in a gorgeous, emphatically human abstract language.

This piece is on view in NYC until the 29th alongside a stellar group of abstract artists. American Abstract Artists New Members Exhibition March 8–29, 2025 Opening Saturday, March 8, 3–6p Gallery MC 545 West 52nd St, New York, NY 10019 Gallery Hours: Fri–Sun 1–6p #alexpaik

Snaps from my curatorial debut with Cecile Chong. We are Broken China! See our show A SILENCE SO LOUD in Bushwick. On colonial silences, letter writing, and militarism. Open till April 13. @tsanetwork.bsky.social

Currently on view at our Philadelphia location: Melissa Simpson: SATIN Feb 22 - Apr 5, 2025 #tigerstrikesasteroid #melissasimpson

#CasparDavidFriedrich at #MetMuseum

In the aftermath of the LA fires, Kelly Akashi shows us the importance of what is perhaps the most basic function of art — the ability to imagine and create new possibilities, to see the potential futures in a seed.

#ChristineSunKim at #WhitneyMuseum. So lucky to get a walkthrough from the artist herself! Our first GYOPO event in NY!

My reflection on the #KellyAkashi show at #LissonGallery hyperallergic.com/995211/from-...

BREAKING: We're suing to block the Trump administration from requiring artists who apply to the National Endowment for the Arts for funding to have to attest they won't use any funds to "promote” what the government deems to be “gender ideology." This is a violation of the First Amendment.

Happy 16th Birthday, #TigerStrikesAsteroid! Instead of relying on grants or wealthy board members, we believe that grassroots community support aligns most closely with our own values. Help us continue creating an art world we can all be proud of! Go to patreon.com/tigerstrikesasteroid to join!

Excited to be a part of this exhibition, opening in NY this weekend! #alexpaik

A few highlights from “Scientia Sexualis” at ICALA (caught it on the final day 😬) 1️⃣ #JesFan 2️⃣ #DeanErdmann 3️⃣ #YoungJoonKwak and #GalaPorrasKim

Improvisation #5 from Partial Right Triangle (Aqua Blue) gouache on paper 6 x 6 x 0.75 inches 2025 #alexpaik

We have the shittiest fascism. No trains running on time, just more diseases.

A few weeks ago I went to Kansas City to do studio visits with the finalists for the Charlotte Street Visual Arts Award. It was so difficult (and emotional) to make a final decision but congrats to Noelle, Merry, and Hung! (Also, I’m not mad that the award went to three Asian American artists 🤗)

#KourPour at #NazarianCurcio. These works weave together references to Persian miniature painting, Euro-American abstraction, and the artist’s own personal history. The visual density speaks to the myriad ways cultures have influenced each other and the impossibility of cultural purity.

This whole essay is worth a read! “Before you demand a seat at the table, you should first ask if it’s a table worth being at in the first place. Let’s not pull up chairs at dinner parties that need to be destroyed.”

Currently on view in New York: #SunYou: Who Sells Color Feb 8 - Mar 9 www.tigerstrikesasteroid.com/ny-/-sun-you... photo by Pratya Jankong #tigerstrikesasteroid

Some new drawings/pattern studies. All micron on vellum. #alexpaik

Currently on view in Chicago: Put A Bow On It Cecilia Beaven, Sarabeth Dunton, Mari Eastman, Flor Flores, Jazmine., Cydney M. Lewis, Liz McCarthy, Matt Morris, Selina Trepp, Allison Wade Feb 1 - Mar 15 www.tigerstrikesasteroid.com/chi-/-put-a-... #TigerStrikesAsteroid photo by Tom Van Eynde

What if Asian Americans stopped thinking about assimilability/unassimilability, which can be reduced to external/cultural markers like language or musical tastes, and instead thought about how useful or useless we can be to whiteness? #weaponizedincompetence