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Dear Friends, Another year gone in a few more days. So much beyond our imaginations has happened. We hope our friends keep in good health and positive in the upcoming years, and that by the time we can meet in person that we will still recognize each other. We pick a few recent artist projects below for you to enjoy and participate in during these Happy Holidays!!! |
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Artist in Focus
NFT creative artist
Giovanna Sun
The Techspressionism Brooklyn
Tuesday December 16, from 4 to 9pm
Techspressionism Brooklyn @Williamsburg Hotel Showcase Art+Holiday Mixer
Venue: The Williamsburg Hotel
RSVP:
Multi-talented artist Giovanna Sun is a certified M. WBE tech entrepreneur, artist, curator, crypto investor, blockchain advisor and podcaster. AKA Dubwoman, Born in Taiwan, Sun lives and works in NYC.
"Una Notte a Napoli"
The new series of Giovanna inspired by the Italian love song with the following plot: One day, a girl met an angel without wings. She went to heaven with him, but in heaven the angel got new wings, so the girl returned to the earth and kept the wingless angel in her memory.
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(more about Giovanna Sun in our next blast) |
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Vivian Tsao
Journey in Light
- Exhibition of Words and Images
Now through December 10, 2021 at National Arts Club (15 Gramercy Park South, New York City https://www.nationalartsclub.org/exhibitions)
"The painting process is by no means solitary, for I try to capture my momentary responses to light. When a scene speaks to me and I begin to paint, I explore what I see via the art language. At the same time, I let the form and light in life trigger the interior landscape in me." Vivian Tsao
Based in New York, Vivian Tsao was born in Taiwan. She holds an MFA degree in Painting from Carnegie Mellon University. Recipient of an artist-in-residence grant from the New York State Council on the Arts, Tsao has exhibited her paintings in places such as the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Queens Museum, Tenri Cultural Institute in the U.S., the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, and Taiwan's National Museum of History.
Journey in Light: Exhibition of Words and Images is a retrospective show by Vivian Tsao. Since 2009, she has been a contributing writer to the Bulletin of National Museum of History. Ms. Tsao feels inspired to hold her first solo show of paintings and books at The National Arts Club where the shimmering light of artists Philip Hale and Will Barnet continues to make an impact.
Image above: The Poet, 1978 pastel 17 x 23 in.
[The Poet and Afternoons during the New York Pause,
represent moments the artist struck a chord that was both sensual and subliminal.]
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Afternoons by Vivian Tsao
2010-2020 oil on linen 36 x 34 in.
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The exhibition at National Arts Club, presents paintings in oil and in pastel. It also includes books that feature Tsao's writings on art in English and Chinese. Her dialogue with light was first inspired by the steady sun next to the Red Sea.,
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She Says, Her Story
-Contemporary Women Artists from Taiwan
November 11 to December 19, 2021 at IA&A at Hillyer in D.C.
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November 11 to December 2021 at IA&A at Hillyer in Washington, D.C.
Six female Taiwanese artists of different identities (Aboriginal, Hakka, Taiwanese, and Lesbian) and of different ages (30-50 years old) participate to voice "Her story." Employing various media - including video, painting, print, woven fabric, soft sculpture, and light box - the artists express their observations and explorations as they relate to their personal lives and the stories of their ancestors and and friends.
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Curator: Yu-Chuan TSENG
participating artists: I-Chun CHEN 、Wen-Jen DENG 鄧文貞、Jui Hung NI Heidi Ni、Ping-Yu PAN 潘娉玉、Yi-Hsin TZENG Tzeng YiHsin、Ya-Lan YU 游雅蘭
Venue: International Arts & Artists building, IA&A at Hillyer
9 Hillyer Court NW, Washington, DC 20008
[located near Metro Red LIne, Dupont Circle north exit]
1+ 202-338-0680
for the most recent information
www.artsandartists.org
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Upcoming Artist in Focus :
Lan-Chiann Wu
* Wu Lan-Chiann’s painting “Lantern Festival” is now featured in World Art Society’s catalogue.
* Wu Lan-Chiann’s painting “Before the Storm” was published on “Six Asian American Artists: Our Own Words - Powerful images and quotes from contemporary Asian Pacific American artists” in the collection of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
Born in Taiwan, she received an MFA from NYU, and lives and works in L.
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Selected art exhibit to visualize:
Hannah Wilke: Art for Life’s Sake
Pulitzer Arts Foundation,
Jun 4, 2021–Jan 16, 2022
American artist Hannah Wilke (1940–93) created innovative and provocative art to affirm life. Her work embraces the vitality and vulnerability of the human body as essential to experiencing life and connecting with each other. She explored this subject in sculpture, photography, video, drawing, and performance. Wilke used her art to challenge gender inequality and empower all of us to realize a more sensuous connection to life and a more liberated society. (for more information go to https://pulitzerarts.org/art/hannah-wilke/)
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Chemin Hsiao As The Noguchi Museum’s 2021 Artist Banners
inaugural winner, Chemin Hsiao’s work Dandelions Know (2021), presented across six outdoor banners, is a powerful message of anti-racism, solidarity and hope in response to the growing tide of violence and fear faced by Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders across the United States.
More information: visit https://www.noguchi.org/artist-banners/
https://hyperallergic.com/693458/at-noguchi-museum-banners-by-asian-american-artists-address-racism/
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More exhibitions of Chemin Hsiao
• Saturday, 12/11, 2~4pm, Opening Reception of Solo Exhibit “Shapes of the Garden" at Queens Botanical Garden.
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to those who missed the exhibition of
Wu Chi-Tsung
WU CHI-TSUNG’S SOLO EXHIBITION JING-ATMOSPHERES AT SEAN KELLY NEW YORK
http://wuchitsung.com/archives/3010
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Contact: info@taac-us.org if you are interested to support this artist in any creative way.
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2021 - Taiwanese American Arts Council
The current pandemic throws everything into turmoil, making us more widely connected by cyberlink, and more in tune with nature and inner mindset. This exhibit focuses on the diversity of life that promotes interactive relationships in...
Read more
www.taac-us.org
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Exhibition: Urban Reverence, New York
The phenomenon of migrants forming an international cross-cultural urban tribe is one of the urgent topics in the 21st century. Analyzed historically in the context of the planet and symbiosis, this involves the survival of human beings and maintenance of balance among various living things. The discourse thus moves to valuing human nature, preservation of multiple cultures, the environment, and the new multi-faceted unity. Potential political, economic, and cultural crises can only be averted by an emphasis on the diversity of life that promotes interactive relationships.
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Diana Heise, Lame La Kone (The Hand that Knows), 2012, Archival pigment print, 24 x 16 inches. Courtesy of the artist
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Eleng Luluan (安聖惠), Sharing, 2016, Photography with crystal frame, 19.5 x 27.5 inches. Courtesy of the artist
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Alexander Khimushin, The World in Faces series, - Children, Nenets, Tukhard, Russia. Siberia, 2016, Inkjet print on photo paper, 79 x 52.5 inches.
Courtesy of the artist
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Curatorial team:
Chief Curator: Luchia Meihua Lee, Executive Director, TAAC
Co-curators: Jennifer Pliego, Director of Special Programs and Head of the House of Art, El Taller Latino Americano, NYC
Sarah Walko, Curator, Director of Education & Community Engagement, Visual Art Center of New Jersey
Urban Tribes II - Urban Reverence Participating artists
Reinhard Blank, Stephanie Cheung/Chengwen Lin, Eric C. Chiang, Dennis RedMoon Darkeem, Sarah Haviland, Diana Heise, Hiroshi Jashiki, Alexander Khimushin, Walis LaBai (Dingwu Wu), Catherine Lan, Lee Wei, Yen-Hua Lee, Shih Pao Lin, Eleng Luluan, j. maya luz, Rosalie Mowgli, Herberto Turizzo Anaya, Sarah Walko, Chin Chih Yang, Yeh Fang
2019 Urban Tribes I - Urban Caravan Participating artists: Miya Ando, Steven Balogh, Yutien Chang, Ching-Yao Chen, Jen-Pei Cheng, Andrea Coronil, Felipe Galindo, Chemin Hsiao, Ming-Jer Kuo, Pey-Chwen Lin, Yi-Chun Lo, Lulu Meng, Kelly Tsai & Ryan Hartley Smith, Yu-Chuan Tseng, Pei-Shih Tu
LIGHT YEAR 51: We the People & LIGHT YEAR 53 : From People to the Land
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In case you missed our Artist-To-Watch series, below are the page links to it; the essays also appear in Greenyes blogger: |
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Chin Chih Yang 楊金池-
2020 NYFA Hall of Fame artist
Image from his performance in lower Manhattan in March 2020. Courtesy of the artist.
Which is worse, the sickness or the fear? Artist Chin Chih Yang in a mock demonstration about COVID-19 (Wuhan coronavirus). This demonstration was intended to remind ourselves about the rules we should follow to keep ourselves virus-free, but also to have a laugh. Let's not get too nervous about the coronavirus!
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Yen-Hua Lee (李燕華):
Value and Appearance of Observing Silence
Home project , (2012~Now), Searching for spiritual home series (exhibit record in Berkeley and San Francisco), 2:50mins. ,Courtesy of the artist.
Home is a place of spiritual and physical protection. People have always wanted to know how to establish a harmonious home, but the search invariably involves a long, drawn-out process with its own memories of time that force us to reconsider the relationship between people and home.
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Hiroshi Jashiki:
From Okinawa to Central Park
Image: The Hudson, Upstate New York. 2011,
four-panel folding screen, pigment and dye print on silk, wood frames, 80 x 58 inch. Courtesy of the artist
Jashiki's work is eclectic in topic, falling as it does into many different categories, and has evolved beyond any particular philosophical school. It raises craftmanship to the highest level of art. It participated in the artistic revival of naturalism, and as silk print, in turn was impacted by it. Its meaning and structure acted as a stimulus in Jashiki's personal drive toward abstraction.
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Marlene Tseng Yu 虞曾富美 - 2020 at the Springfield Museums
Marlene Tseng Yu responds to nature in a romantic way. She reacted to the sight of melting glaciers in her series Ice Cracking with layered black and white abstract paintings in acrylic that recall in technique both traditional Asian brush ink landscape and western Impressionism. Yu has increasingly employed gigantic paintings to encapsulate and absorb the spectator in an element of the landscape, introducing an added dimensionality, and emphasizing human frailty and the permanency of the landscape. Thus she has responded to the urgency of global warming with both artistic elegance and heartfelt passion.
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Tangwei Hsu 許唐瑋:
Fantasy on the Universe
Image: Floating Travel, 2020, fiberglass, stainless steel, metal paint, L17ft x W12ft x H3.6ft, public art at Taoyuan International Airport Terminal 2, Taoyuan, Taiwan.
Courtesy of the artist
Hsu's objects are coated with pleasant, soft, and primitive colors and lines that nevertheless fail to lend stability - indeed they covertly undermine it. Hsu thus develops an open, airy art language, through seemingly conducting a discourse of abstract animation to determine space or the physical world. Even though there is a definite artistic commonality with graffiti and street murals, the antisocial element has been completely eradicated in Hsu's work. Thematically, he rails against the orderliness of aesthetic limits, stylistically diminishing a principle of symmetrical two dimensional balance, and has blithely deconstructed the division between two and three dimensions, between sculpture and drawing, thus remanding medium to irrelevance and enthroning content and form that generate excitement regarding the surface of works.
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YunMing Chang 張韻明 -
Reverie on the green rice fields of Taiwan
Image: Lakeside, 2008.
Asphalt and oil on canvas, 38 x 57 inches, Courtesy of the artist
Chang applied asphalt to create a series of mysterious forests, bold black and pure white, reflected in the water and creating a tension, yet also an abstract tranquil beauty.
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Sarah Haviland:
Why Bird? Wings to effortless historical consciousness
Image: Owl in Wonderland, 2017
Wire mesh and mixed media
40 x 60 x 20inches
Saunders Farm, Garrison, NY
Courtesy of the artist
Owl in Wonderland continues the series of human-bird hybrid figures made in transparent wire mesh that point to our essential connection to nature. It was inspired by an encounter with an owl in a tree at dusk. In New York State the short-eared owl is an endangered species. The piece was installed with the collective Collaborative Concepts on a farm in the lower Hudson Valley.
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Eric C. Chiang 江俊雄
Memory of Connecticut shoreline
Image: Memory of Connecticut shoreline, oil on canvas,
12 x 12 inches, 2020.
Courtesy of the artist
The combination of Chiang's sources advance with a proud grace as if rejecting mere representation. The black and white paint is transformed from dripping and splashed spots on the canvas by way of the imagination, They seem to stroke the invisible, while without petition they also address the infinite and the universe.
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Shida Kuo 郭旭達
The Still, Protruding Moment
Image: Untitled, No. 2018-9, 2018. Fired Clay, Metallic Oxides and Wood, 38 x 20 x27 inch
Courtesy of the artist
The smooth body part exerts a force conditioned by the protrusion which is somehow still in harmony with the rest of the work. The total effect is not austere but reminds us of Kuo's own warm, witty, gentle manner and attitude. The work's very form conveys action, or even antics, that hang on the act of observing, so the viewer's reaction to the art has both outward and an inward components. Hence the amusing behavior induced in the spectators becomes an important but subtle component of any exhibition of this art - in addition to its careful, delicate, ordering, organic beauty.
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Chemin Hsaio 蕭喆旻 -
Aware the Living Moment
Wilson, 2020
Watercolor on Paper, 11 x 15 inch.
Courtesy of the artist
Chemin Hsiao created a series of drawings in the pandemic period in which the face mask has become an essential element of our daily life. It is by turns melancholic, ironic, witty, and reflective.
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Tina C J Chen 陳秋瑾:
2020 packing up at a NY Gallery
Tina Chen's soul garden provides a visually sublime as well as revealing alternative to the temporary crisis of the moment. The reticulated and delicate drawing on the blue and white porcelain is a way to reveal the essence of imperial splendor and the still life. Because of this global crisis, we are unable to participate fully in the pleasure that the colors promise; yet the light sorrow contained in the vase and the flowing green give hope to us.
image courtesy of the artist
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Nina Edwards :
Appreciate the world we live in today
Nina Edwards’” Metropolitan City Fashion Mask” and ”Black Women Matter” series were created during this difficult time. We would like you to appreciate the exquisite beauty that addresses societal concerns.
Image courtesy of the artist
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