Artist Cory Wanamaker will be giving a unique and exclusive talk about his art to us at the Bao Gallery: Cory will choose one piece to discuss and the audience will choose the rest!

Cory Wanamaker is an American painter and bronze sculptor living in Shanghai. He began his travels as an expat artist in 2006 as a Fulbright Fellow living and working in the United Kingdom. He immersed himself in his community as a teacher, collaborator, artist, and explorer. During this period in Wanamaker's life, he was able to hone in on and enhance his understanding of place and from that moment on, he began to integrate that understanding into his art.

Since that time, he has been able to use his travels to inspire his work and to incorporate true place in unique ways. Wanamaker's work has been shown internationally – in the USA, the Czech Republic, Russia, and…