Peggy Chiang’s work often begins with a legible yet ordinary subject, an object that could be commonplace or even peripheral. Chiang borrows the images and names of things and their attached associations to reconstruct, alter or combine, casting doubt on the passivity of objects and troubling the logic around representation and value.

"Forming" (2024) consists of a small shelf-work, protruding from the wall like the angled corners of restaurant tables. This assisted readymade focuses on the traces and aftermath of labor in the absence of a “product.” Empty takeout containers with simulated steam atop stained tablecloths are the sole objects on display for consumption.

Chiang (b. 1989, San Francisco) received an MFA from Rutgers University and a BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art. Recent solo exhibitions include Wasted, Laurel Gitlen, New York; Fiend, hatred2, Brooklyn; and spleen and ideal, Prairie, Chicago. Chiang lives and works in New York.

Chiang's work is presented in collaboration with her representing gallery, Laurel Gitlen, NY.