Asian American Art

Where is my Mother by Yun Gee

Asian American artist Yun Gee strives to give visual expression to his personal experiences. Many of his paintings show his desire to express the universal through his own personal experiences with race and depict that experience in art.   In this particular painting, Where is my Mother?, Yun Gee paints a lament for is family, friends, and compatriots that he left behind in China.  The painting relates to many who have left behind those they love to journey to a new place and start a new life. The painting explores the difficulty of leaving a country and a home and especially speaks to the difficulty of leaving those things and becoming a minority in a new place.