{"id":8626,"date":"2020-03-11T13:00:42","date_gmt":"2020-03-11T17:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?p=8626"},"modified":"2020-03-17T16:06:57","modified_gmt":"2020-03-17T20:06:57","slug":"guanyu-xu-at-yancey-richardson-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/11\/guanyu-xu-at-yancey-richardson-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Guanyu Xu at Yancey Richardson Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Born and raised in Beijing, Chicago-based artist Guanyu Xu was unable as a youth to openly express his queer identity.\u00a0 Returning from the US to Beijing to visit, he transformed his parent\u2019s apartment with photo installations that tell the story of his identity in some of its complexity.\u00a0 Captured in photos, the arrangements appear to be digitally collaged but are in fact staged in real time and space, temporarily occupying an environment in a fleeting moment of openness that took place while his parents were away from their home. (Originally planned to be on view to the public in Chelsea at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yanceyrichardson.com\/exhibitions\/guanyu-xu\">Yancey Richardson Gallery<\/a> through April 4th, Xu&#8217;s work can be see on the gallery&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yanceyrichardson.com\/exhibitions\/guanyu-xu\">website<\/a> and his own <a href=\"https:\/\/www.xuguanyu.com\/\">website<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_8627\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8627\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=8627\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8627\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8627\" src=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/guanyu_xu.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/guanyu_xu.jpg 1989w, https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/guanyu_xu-150x120.jpg 150w, https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/guanyu_xu-500x398.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-8627\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Guanyu Xu, My Desktop, archival pigment print, 26 \u00bd x 32 1\/2, 2019.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Born and raised in Beijing, Chicago-based artist Guanyu Xu was unable as a youth to openly express his queer identity.\u00a0 Returning from the US to Beijing to visit, he transformed his parent\u2019s apartment with photo installations that tell the story of his identity in some of its complexity.\u00a0 Captured in photos, the arrangements appear to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/2020\/03\/11\/guanyu-xu-at-yancey-richardson-gallery\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Guanyu Xu at Yancey Richardson Gallery&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,27,4],"tags":[8,2384,117,13,8793,1594,8794,8795,2846,17,16,1333],"class_list":["post-8626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dont-miss","category-features-commissions","category-hottest-show","tag-art","tag-beijing","tag-chelsea","tag-gallery","tag-guanyu-xu","tag-identity","tag-my-desktop","tag-photo-installation","tag-photographer","tag-photography","tag-tour","tag-yancey-richardson"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2BDOD-2f8","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8626"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8635,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8626\/revisions\/8635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newyorkarttours.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}