Aiming to reassess abstract art's critical role as aesthetic idiom, perceptual process, and
research form, this project considers how abstraction's constant re-makings keep it
crucial, a strategy to think
contemporary culture and to incite ongoing critical dialogues with everyday reality.
Perceiving critical dialogue to be a
crucial component toward meeting their mission, the organization funded the ACAC Writing Fellowship for Art Practical, which creates a platform for emerging writers and aims to encourage critical thinking and writing on Asian
contemporary art practices in the Bay Area.6 The inaugural fellow is Ellen Yoshi Tani, a graduate student at Stanford University, whose
research centers on «work of transnational artists, attending to how they activate sites of difference or sameness, using race and / or identity as medium rather than positioning it as subject.»