Michael Lin wouldn't mind if someone stepped on his art: he creates all-encompassing visual floral cornucopias--often on the floor. Long interested in Asian textiles and influenced by Chinese, Japanese, and American culture, many of the fabrics appropriated by the artist are designs culled from Taiwanese wedding fabrics. Included here is "The Architect & The Housewife"--Frances Stark's rare essay on public and private space; extensive installation documentation; an illustrated exhibition history; and a complete artist biography. Michael Lin's works are carefully placed: his warm-hued paintings overlay and define spaces, saturate them, but become so one with each, that they are accepted in the same way it is hard to remember how something was before it changed.

--Browyn Mahoney, Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, 2003 Edited by Ivy Cooper.

Essays by Shannon Fitzgerald and Frances Stark.

Foreword by Paul Ha. Paperback, 8.25 x 8.25 in./64 pgs / 54 color and 5 b&w.