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cutouts
Puff a Chinese Girl for 99¢ (2010)
Yellow table protector fabric, 140 x 167 cm

 

Chinese Fever: Liki-Liki (2010)    

Paper, vinyl. As installed at Workers' Arts & Heritage Centre (Hamilton, ON)

   
LIki-Liki (v.2) et Tchin-Tchin (2009)
Paper, 118 x 57 cm
Fill 'er up, Russell! (2009)
Vinyl, 52 x 77 cm
High Jinx (2009)
Paper, 39 x 31 cm
I may flirt a little, but I'm no yellow peril (2009), Vinyl, 40.5 x 90 cm The Chinese Must Go! (2009)
Vinyl , 30 x 22.5 cm
Monster-Head (2009)
Paper, 27.5 x 22.5 cm
L-R: Peeping Tom (2008), Paper, 61 x 43 cm
M'aidez-Mayday-Meidei! (2009), Paper, 78 x 63.5 cm
Memories like preserved plums (2009), Vinyl, 125 x 107 cm

 

From Frog's Robe to Crow's Feet and Dried Old Bones to Vinegar Drinkers (2009)      
Glittery fabric cut-out, 1.42 x 3.65 m      

 

Great balls of fire: Small people merely change their spots (2008)
Paper, Installed at Bede’s World (Jarrow, UK)      

 

Chinese Fever (2006-2010)

As installed at Fofa Gallery, Concordia University

 

Do you mind if I smoke? (2008)
Vinyl, 30 x 30 cm
Elmo & Dora: "We were saddened to learn of this tragic news." (For Cheung Shu-hung) (2008)
Vinyl, 46 x 64 cm

 

"You're a princess in a world full of dragons" (2008)

Metallic foil cut-out, 1.42 x 365 m

 

Mash-Up / Pâté chinois (2008)

Paper, 213 x 152 cm

 

Not Made in China! (2008)

Vinyl, 116 x 137 cm

 

Left to Right: All from 2007
Comment faire pour y entrer sans être reconnu?...Me déguiser?...
I'm a little teapot, short and stout...
Fleur de Shanghai
One for sorrow, two for joy, Three for a girl, four for a boy, Five for silver, six for gold

Wood cutout, each 2.13 x 0.6 m

 

Scorpion's Delight (2007)
Fabric, 1.8 x 1.6 m

 

Rosie's Ching-chongery (2007) Get Over It, Rosie! (2007)
Paper, 56 x 40 cm Paper, 56 x 40 cm

 

Rex vs. Quong (2006)  
Paper, 60 x 76 cm  

 

Chef Lee's First Wok'n'Roll Garden series (2004-present)

MSG / Buddha Health Food & Vegetarian Delight
Buffet King
Chef Lee’s
China First
China Garden
China Garden
Le Chrysanthème
Dragonaro
Fishing for Rats 2 & 3
Golden Palace
Hon Wong Restaurant Inc.
Keung’s Restaurant
Marco Polo Noodle House
MSG
New Asia
No. 1 Chinese Restaurant
Oriental Pearl
Oriental Restaurant
Overseas Asian Restaurant
Palais de Chine
La poupée chinoise
Rat #1
Shaw Lee
Sin Can
Tung Lock
Twin Lakes Restaurant
Wang’s
Wok Village
Yangtze Restaurant
Zoe’s


Le Pavillon series (2005-present)
Asian Fever (2005)
Paper, 38 x 53 cm
Meet Under the Bamboo Tree (2005)
Paper, 42 x 40 cm
Genuine American Chop Suey Served With Some Hokey-Pokey! (2006), Paper, 33 x 33 cm Monkey-Brained Mandarin (2005)
Paper, 26 x 47 cm
The New Old Comet—A Phenomenon Now Visible (2006)
Paper, 13 x 68 cm

 

 
Itch for China (2003)
Paper, 60 x 76 cm
Ching-Chong Chinaman Sitting on a Wall, Along Came a White Man And Chopped Off His Balls (2003)
Paper, 60 x 76 cm

 

One Hundred Blossoms Lanterns (2005-2007)
   
             
Haiiee-yaa! Warrior and Cook (2005)
Birds, Flowers, and a Lover’s Suicide (2005) Barbed Dragoness (2005) Longevity Blossoms (2005)

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