Reception
ClosePublic reception for "Phantom Lines" (test)
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Thu, Jul 16 – Fri, Jul 17, 2026
We’re excited to invite you to a reception and performance for Phantom Lines on Saturday, June 6 at Edgewood Gallery, presented with support from Yale-China Arts Lab.
Featuring work by 2026 MFA grads in Sculpture and Graphic Design: Shellie Zhang, Joy Li, Amy Fang, Camille J-W Gwise.
Phantom Lines brings together artists working across sculpture, performance, design, and installation, a reflection on the afterlives of silk as commodity, object, material, and industry, and its historical entanglement with China.
The exhibition considers silk as both a material and a system shaped through processes of making, circulation, and exchange—from its roots in sericulture, to its movement along the Silk Road, its history in New Haven and its dissemination through contemporary global trade, as well as its emblematic associations with Chinese culture. Moving away from silk as a fixed object of luxury or tradition, the works offer a meditation on silk as a metaphor, following its shifting presence across bodies, images, and global contexts. Phantom Lines traces how silk’s histories remain present within the ways it is perceived, imagined, and encountered today.
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Supported by: Ben Weathers, Gallery + Exhibitions Manager, Yale School of Art
32 Edgewood Gallery Hours: Sat/Sun 12-4pm.
