PRESS RELEASE

Reagan Louie's exhibition Works from Asia is culled from several of his recent series. Images include building sites in Hong Kong, sex workers in capitol cities, school children in parks, soldiers, and civilians in towns that he passed through during his travels. The subject matter is people seemingly caught in a no man's land - pulled back by age-old traditions and forward by economic progress. Each photograph depicts a cultural landscape where past and present uncomfortably co-exist through details of face, dress, and architecture.

Louie has a BFA from UCLA and an MFA from Yale University. He currently teaches at the SF Art Institute. His Sex Workers in Asia exhibit at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art will be on view September 4th through December 7th with a companion publication, Orientalia, published by powerHouse Books. His 1991 book, Toward a Truer Life: Photographs of China 1980-1990, published by Aperture, received critical acclaim. His work is in the collections of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Metropolitan Musem of Art.