Time: Thursday, January 18, 2024, 7-9 pm
Location: Annex 73, NeueHouse Venice Beach, 73 Market St, Venice, CA 90291
Capicity: 18
Parking: Street parking
Ticket price: $95


Join us in celebration of JiaHao Peng's new art installations: Shade Tolerant. To complement this immersive experience, we're hosting a special kokedama workshop at NeueHouse Venice Beach. This introductory-level session is perfect for beginners eager to explore the art of creating their own kokedama, a moss-covered soil ball where ornamental plants grow. If you're a NeueHouse member, you can sign up for this workshop for free!

Following the workshop, we invite you to join us for an opening reception, please RSVP here.

Previous Kokedama Workshop:

• Kokedama Workshop for Health-Ade
  
• Kokedama Workshop at Canary Test
  
• Creative Kokedama Workshop #2
  
• Kokedama Workshop

Drawing from a quote on a bumper sticker: “Be like a fern — shade tolerant,” artist JiaHao Peng expresses his kinship with plants resilient to harsh conditions — low light and scarce water. Through this installation, Peng expresses a newfound appreciation for his teacher-less learning through the silent lessons imparted by plants, surpassing the capabilities of language-centric teaching.

Through a unique and exceptional experience of both hanging and floor plant installations curated by Peng, viewers are invited to take in these lessons themselves. Expressing his own journey of self-reflection refracted through a lens of nature, the artist strives to explore how we all derive our strength as humans through our relationships to plants.

JiaHao Peng is a multimedia visual artist whose practice focuses on horticulture and photography. Through his work with plants and florals, Peng highlights what’s obscured in daily life, featuring marginalized, queer, and trifling subjects. Across his work, he continually reveals the interplay between the camera lens and greenery, using light in inventive ways to immortalize his subjects. Inspired by these connections, he founded Ten Ten Photosynthesis at 1010 S Olive St. in Los Angeles, exploring this distinctive art practice.