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Marina Peng (@marina.peng) makes textile drawings and tapestries in St. Louis, work she describes as exploring “how patterns form across generations.” She had a lot of alone time as a kid and spent it collecting materials and making unexpected things with them. From there she moved through drawing, installation and sculpture before she started weaving and punch needling in 2020. Her figures are almost always red. In her family’s culture the colour stands for life, joy and prosperity, and elsewhere it signals violence or danger. She says, “I think of all the figures as being different parts of me. Even the hands are my own hands.” Underneath all of it is what it’s like to grow up second-generation American in the Midwest, trying to honour two sets of values at once. by @marina.peng

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The making of “The Line” ⏪ by @marina.peng

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The Line
2026
Wool, cotton, dye, burlap
50 x 74 inches

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“The Line” is a scene in an imagined factory. Several laborers hover over a work table, stitching together a new figure in their image. A blanket of smoke hangs in the air.

Some questions I asked myself while working on this piece: What happens when their work is complete? Does the new “me” come to life and hop off the table as the end product, the last in line? Or does she pull up a chair and join the factory line, getting straight to work on creating another? How many more can there be? What happens if the room keeps filling with smoke? by @marina.peng

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“never even” is an 18 ft long textile looped into a Möbius strip through the window cavities of NON STNDRD. I sewed the work directly onto the concrete bunker (or, I sewed the concrete bunker into the work). The infinitely intertwining hands and arms motif is based on an ornamental brick in the National Building Arts Center’s collection. The installation is part of the group exhibition “Phantom Frame” curated by @allison_lacher and @_jeff_robinson_ , now on view through Sat, July 18th. Please join us for a closing event on the 18th from 1–4pm, with a performance by @jwchavez + a collab performance by @shirende and @gracielagze ❤️

“never even”
2026
Wool, cotton
12” x 110”

“Phantom Frame” (May 30–Jul 18, 2026) @stndrdexhibitions at @nationalbuildingartscenter featuring:
@albert0aguilar
@conradbakker
@sarahandjoseph
@dannyjbracken
@jwchavez
@robertchaseheishman
@marina.peng

photos by @paleblueatlasclub taken in National Building Arts Center by @marina.peng

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4 months ago

Spring in tennessee, missouri, nebraska, and illinois 🩵 by @marina.peng

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4 months ago

a peek at sewing a new site-specific work onto NON STNDRD @stndrdexhibitions. “Phantom Frame” curated by @allison_lacher and @_jeff_robinson_ opens this Sat, May 30, 3–6pm. hope to see you there 🤝

featuring:
@albert0aguilar
@conradbakker
@sarahandjoseph
@dannyjbracken
@jwchavez
@robertchaseheishman
@marina.peng taken in National Building Arts Center by @marina.peng

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5 months ago

A new piece and a peek into the making of. For “Downstream” I spliced together two different toned burlaps—a natural and a light—and applied dye, which created two different blues. The pointing hands cross over the boundary of the faded blue (the past) into the bright blue (the present). The arms are arranged like a halo around the cornered figure, a subversion of the red sun symbolism popular in chinese propaganda posters during the cultural revolution. With this work I was thinking about how generational anxieties cross over into the next generation and manifest in unpredictable ways.

Downstream
2026
Wool, burlap, dye
51 x 36 inches by @marina.peng

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6 months ago

weaving in public in @21cstl’s galleries last October

photos by @paleblueatlasclub taken in 21c Museum Hotel St. Louis by @marina.peng

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7 months ago

Last October I made this small weaving across two days at @21cstl. I’ve since made an edition of three, which are now available under the new “Available Works” section on my website (link in bio). Planning on making more editions this year, stay tuned 🫶

The image is of my hands reaching into the “past” and braiding the hair of my younger self, a self-parenting fantasy and a reflection on girlhood.

not so distant
2025
Wool, cotton
Edition of 3
19.5 x 14.75 inches each by @marina.peng

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jan & feb ❤️💔❤️‍🩹💗 by @marina.peng

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Division I
Division II
Division III
2025
Nylon, cotton, canvas
16 x 22 inches each

These new works will be on view at MICDS’ Messing Gallery Jan 31–Feb 27 in an exhibition that welcomes the year of the horse 🔥🐴

Opening reception: Jan 31, 1–4pm
Featuring works by:
Hope Ainsworth
EKAH
Katie Chung
Janice Ho
Mee Jey
NamDoo Kim
Yowshien Kuo
YoonJee Kwak
Helen Lee
Jiyong Lee
Marina Peng
Leslie Song
Kim Stahl
Henri Trinh

@theveryasianfoundation
@mabelle_rigell_art
@reedgallery by @marina.peng

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9 months ago

been having the time of my 𝓁𝒾𝒻𝑒 at @wassaicproject this month. if you’re in the area, come by our open studios this Sat, Jan 31, 3–5pm to see what we’ve been getting up to ♥️

@abrokeniris
@diegopablo.m
@emily.mart1nez
@shangaristudio
@aliceproujansky
@louis_silken
@tatemegan
K Sarrantonio in spirit

🥄 taken in Wassaic Project by @marina.peng

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