Fay Ku: Eye Teeth

Fay Ku creates worlds inhabited by women and children engaged in often troubling or even demonic behaviors which evince cultural, sexual, and political identities, power dynamics, social and familial conflicts—the full spectrum of human behavior. Ku adds that, “I suspect my narratives arise from my personal experience of displacement as an immigrant.  My parents and I carried our culture within ourselves, disconnected from our physical reality”.  In her artwork, this cultural isolation is seen as figures drawn against stark backgrounds.  “My characters have little need for a physical setting”, Ku notes, “because they exist in a psychological and not a concrete realm.”