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Albert Wang is a writer who combines his memoirs with new media techniques inspired by Facebook and Twitter. He considers himself to be a postmodern Samuel Pepys, describing the most personal and intimate details of his own usually mundane life using the impersonal format of text messages. He has collaborated/conspired with his fictional alter ego, conceptual artist qi peng, in various performance pieces that intersect fictional adventures with the reality TV of Mr. Wang's life. Currently he lives in Salt Lake City and sometimes works in his hometown of New York City for special projects.

qi peng is a fictional conceptual artist who has been exhibited in various places including Aqua Art Miami Art Fair/MyArtspace.com, Central Booking; Dam, Stuhltrager Gallery; envoy enterprises; the Projects Gallery; The Lab at Belmar; modern8 Gallery; James Cohan Gallery/NURTUREart; Claire Oliver Gallery/NURTUREart; Metro Pictures/Visual AIDS; Art Raw Gallery; and Anna Kustera.

 

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industrial landscapes
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This is the exhibition catalog for the modern8 gallery show "industrial landscapes" from November 2007 to January 2008... More > period. This was qi peng's first major solo show that helped him to procure his group shows at The Lab at Belmar and the Projects Gallery. In December 2009-January 2010, this series was part of peng's solo show at The Gallery at Library Square in downtown Salt Lake City. < Less
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The Art Assassin
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In this provocative and groundbreaking nonfiction novel, Albert Wang who is an investigative reporter in the tradition of... More > Hunter Thompson and Norman Mailer reinvents his fictional alter-ego qi peng as a Utah conceptual artist who is trying to make it into the contemporary art world, particularly New York City, from a relative unknown.

This mystery novel begins with qi peng's suicide within his future and leads down a darker path into this emerging artist's sordid past as he aspires to find love and appreciation from his fellow artists/characters/celebrities... Wang's controversial reportage as an act of performance art focuses on the spiritual "murder" of the soul as a counterpart to Truman Capote's classic book, "In Cold Blood," that looks at physical murder of humans. < Less
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terrordome
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SEPTEMBER 11th, 2001. During the first 24 hours after the incident, ten swingers who do not know each other decide join in... More > all sort of salacious coupling which are rendered meaningless in downtown Manhattan located in the newly formed United Dictatorship of America (UDA). Loosely adapted from Arthur Schnitzler's lively play "Reigen," Wang's controversial debut novel "terrordome" becomes a dystopic black comedy set against the background of smoky rubble of the World Trade Center buildings imploding gradually during that forboding morning. In an uncharacteristically deft style, this deeply moving tragedy probes the philosophy of deconstruction, the dehumanization of a sex-obsessed culture, the mythologies surrounding 9/11, and the rewriting of the real story behind the twin towers by deviant politicans who use the firecracker of mass death for their own agendas to control public opinion about jingoism and fascism. < Less
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The Games People Play
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Albert Wang's latest novel turns towards a more ambitious scale where the international financial markets rule over humanity... More > in a omnipresent way. Written in the language of e-mail spam, the seemingly British anti-hero of this science fiction thriller launders virtual money into this funnel of fraud, extortion, and crime that is hidden within the confusing language of his private letters written then blended on a computer. His literary tradition is squarely that of this hybrid combination of deadly words caught among John Barth's LETTERS, Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange, and William Gaddis' J.R. with an updated twist. This dicator without a name controls his worldwide gang of tricksters and maniacs using this universal terminal that serves to dangle the characters of Earth like a marionette under the guise of violent seduction without conscience. < Less
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This is the exhibition catalog for the modern8 gallery show "industrial landscapes" from November 2007 to January 2008... More > period. This was qi peng's first major solo show that helped him to procure his group shows at The Lab at Belmar and the Projects Gallery. In December 2009-January 2010, this series was part of peng's solo show at The Gallery at Library Square in downtown Salt Lake City. < Less
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Contemporary Artists
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This calendar contains images of oil paintings that conceptual artist qi peng (who was featured first as a fictional... More > character in Albert Wang's novel "terrordome") executed for two series of work including portraits of contemporary artists who are friends such as William Powhida, K. B., Kim Holleman, Marissa Shell, Amy Pryor, Pablo Helguera, and Dannielle Tegeder. There are a few paintings that are based on Richard Prince's appropriated photographs which provides a postmodern view on traditional painting as a foil for photography. < Less
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SEPTEMBER 11th, 2001. During the first 24 hours after the incident, ten swingers who do not know each other decide join in... More > all sort of salacious coupling which are rendered meaningless in downtown Manhattan located in the newly formed United Dictatorship of America (UDA). Loosely adapted from Arthur Schnitzler's lively play "Reigen," Wang's controversial debut novel "terrordome" becomes a dystopic black comedy set against the background of smoky rubble of the World Trade Center buildings imploding gradually during that forboding morning. In an uncharacteristically deft style, this deeply moving tragedy probes the philosophy of deconstruction, the dehumanization of a sex-obsessed culture, the mythologies surrounding 9/11, and the rewriting of the real story behind the twin towers by deviant politicans who use the firecracker of mass death for their own agendas to control public opinion about jingoism and fascism. < Less
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The Art Assassin
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In this provocative and groundbreaking nonfiction novel, Albert Wang who is an investigative reporter in the tradition of... More > Hunter Thompson and Norman Mailer reinvents his fictional alter-ego qi peng as a Utah conceptual artist who is trying to make it into the contemporary art world, particularly New York City, from a relative unknown.

This mystery novel begins with qi peng's suicide within his future and leads down a darker path into this emerging artist's sordid past as he aspires to find love and appreciation from his fellow artists/characters/celebrities... Wang's controversial reportage as an act of performance art focuses on the spiritual "murder" of the soul as a counterpart to Truman Capote's classic book, "In Cold Blood," that looks at physical murder of humans. < Less
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