Dedications

For the 2026 Williams Art Community Project (WACP)

Dedications consists of a pair of portraits: one dedicated to my father, and another dedicated to my dedication to my grandmother. Through an obsessive attention to visual detail, these paintings explore the persistent capacity of physical objects to bear personal and cultural meaning in digital modernity.

 

Bio

Andy Huang is a Chinese-American artist from Dallas, Texas who is enamored with the visual properties of light and color. His paintings, drawings, and films are entirely about (mis)communication and (missed) connections.

Andy majors in Political Economy and Art History and Studio, and is currently attending the Williams-Exeter Programme at Oxford (WEPO). His work has previously been displayed in the Texas State Capitol rotunda.

吃 (2024), oil on canvas.

吃 is a painting of my father playing mahjong. Each object depicted is associated with successive layers of cultural and personal meaning.

In mahjong, 吃 (chī) is called to claim a tile discarded by the previous player and complete a sequence of three consecutive tiles. This exposed set of 1, 2, and 3 of the 萬 (wàn) suit suggests that my father called 吃 earlier in the game.