Exhibition Description:

Mik and May Gaspay are a Filipino-American son/mother artist team whose collaborative practice merges traditional craft and contemporary art to explore memory, migration, and belonging. Together, they create sculptural quilts that transform fabric into a vessel for storytelling—honoring family histories while reflecting on broader experiences of home and displacement.

For their installation at the Art Kiosk, the Gaspays present Ancestral Home, a meditation on home, loss, and inheritance. The project takes its name from their family’s former home in Enrile, Philippines—now lost to a typhoon—and transforms that absence into a space for reflection and reconstruction. Through the slow, tactile process of cutting, stitching, and layering, Mik and May reimagine the house as both a personal and collective monument, a place rebuilt through memory and collaboration.

Presented within the public setting of the Art Kiosk in Redwood City, Ancestral Home invites viewers to consider how the stories of migration, resilience, and care that shape one family echo across many others.

About the Artist:

Mik Gaspay (b. 1976 in Quezon City, Philippines) lives and works in San Francisco. Gaspay received his MFA from California College of the Arts in 2011. Gaspay has had a solo exhibition at Alter Space Gallery in San Francisco. He has also participated in various group shows in museums and galleries including the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, Art Gallery at the University of Hawaii in Hilo, Institute of Contemporary Art San Jose, Asia Society Houston Texas, Charlotte Street Foundation in Kansas City and WhiteBox Gallery in New York. Gaspay was awarded a commission by the Chinese Culture Center in San Francisco for a permanent public art installation in San Francisco Chinatown’s Portsmouth Square Bridge. May Gaspay (b. 1953 in Apari, Cagayan, Philippines) lives and works in Palo Alto, CA. Gaspay was a Registered Nurse at Stanford Hospital for 35 years and has been quilting for the past 40 years. Gaspay has been collaborating with her son, Mik, for the past 5 years. She has exhibited her quilted works at the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Jose Museum of Quilt and Textiles and at the California Institute of Integral Studies in San Francisco.

About the Art Kiosk:

Since 2019, the Art Kiosk aims to bring thought-provoking installations and public art to Redwood City and the Bay Area through eight, six week-long exhibitions throughout each year. Artists from the Bay Area and around the world have been invited to realize their ambitious, site-specific artworks for our audience to enjoy. The initiative was conceived and is curated by Lance M. Fung. Donated curatorial work and project management for the exhibition series is provided by Fung Collaboratives. The Redwood City Improvement Association (RCIA) is the sole sponsor since the inaugural year. Redwood City acts as the logistical partner and provides the space and utilities. Please drop by for a visit 24/7 at 2208 Broadway, Redwood City, CA for a free viewing. Details may be found at: www.fungcollaboratives.com