{"id":2649,"date":"2026-09-14T13:55:59","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T20:55:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/aardwolf\/?p=2649"},"modified":"2026-09-28T10:24:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T17:24:16","slug":"assembled-inheritance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/labs.wsu.edu\/aardwolf\/2026\/09\/14\/assembled-inheritance\/","title":{"rendered":"Assembled Inheritance"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Cuong Lam & Kacy McKinney<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

9\/14\/26 – 12\/18\/26<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Dengerink Gallery (VDEN)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Assembled Inheritance<\/em>, Cuong Lam & Kacy McKinney, 2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Assembled Inheritance<\/em><\/strong> brings together the work of Cuong Lam and Kacy McKinney, tracing the ways memory, loss, ritual, and material carry what is inherited and what is left behind. Through conversations and studio visits, the artists developed an exhibition that reveals resonances between their practices while preserving their distinct voices.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Endless Echo<\/em> (detail), Cuong Lam, Stoneware, underglaze, steel, wood, 2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Cuong draws from a cultural inheritance of stories, offerings, and food, where memory is sustained through acts of gathering and giving. His work here re-engages objects from his upbringing in a Vietnamese community transplanted to America through a ceramic hand-building process that combines distilled forms, labor-intensive surfaces, and the layering and removal of color.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mourning Attire 2<\/em>, Kacy McKinney, Upcycled cotton seersucker, hand cut and pieced, machine sewn, 30″ x 38″, 2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Kacy reclaims used cotton seersucker shirts as base materials to create patchwork panels that suggest stained glass when light shines through them. With these pieces, she is expanding on a process of reworking clothing from those who have passed into what she refers to as Mourning Attire \u2014 clothes made in the space of grief to honor those lost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mourning Attire 1<\/em>, Kacy McKinney, Upcycled cotton seersucker, hand cut and pieced, machine sewen, 30″ x 40″, 2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Exhibited together, these works present inheritance as something continually assembled: carried within objects, gestures, stories, and materials; shaped by absence as much as presence; and transformed when passed from one person, place, and generation to another.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The Fact That We’re Here<\/em>, Cuong Lam, Stoneware, underglaze, steel, 2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\r\n\n\n
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The Fact That We’re Here<\/em> (detail), Cuong Lam, Stoneware, underglaze, steel, 2026<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n<\/div>\r\n\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Cuong Lam<\/strong> is an interdisciplinary artist, working primarily in ceramics in Portland, Oregon. Lam\u2019s practice builds upon a ceramics education across several institutions including Harvard, MassArt, Haystack Mountain School of Craft, and Cohorts.Art, as well as a professional career in graphic design, for which he holds a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. He has produced award-winning designs for major industry players such as Adobe and Intel, contributed to the success of innovative startups such as Pivotal and HashiCorp, and collaborated closely with cultural institutions such as Yerba Buena Center for the Arts and Sonoma Valley Museum of Art. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kacy McKinney<\/strong> (she\/they) is a visual artist, independent scholar and avid birder based in Portland, Oregon. McKinney is Artist-Scholar in Residence at the Homelessness Research & Action Collaborative at Portland State University and has served on the boards of Sisters of the Road and the Independent Publishing Resource Center, where she completed the Comics Portfolio Program in 2019. She holds a doctorate in human geography from the University of Washington, a master\u2019s degree in Latin American studies and a bachelor\u2019s degree in Portuguese from the University of Texas at Austin. Notable awarded residencies include Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, PLAYA at Summer Lake, The Verdancy Project, Trailer Blaze, and the Mesa Refuge. McKinney has received grants from organizations including the Regional Arts & Culture Council, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, and the Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

For this show, WSU Vancouver student, Juan Romero<\/strong>, apprenticed with Cuong over the summer of 2026, giving Juan an opportunity to learn about ceramics, and related professional practices in the studio arts.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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