18th Street Arts Center

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By ajones, November 30, 2011 5:31 pm

September 1-November 30, 2011

Taiwanese artist Chun-Chiang Niu(Nat Niu)lives and works in Taipei, Taiwan.
He graduated from Graduate school of art and technology, Taipei National University of the Arts. By the creation of digital art, he indicates the position of the contemporary scene we live, and relieves our anxiety of the technological changing with each passing day. Visit link for Nat’s website: http://natniu.net/cv/

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By ajones, August 31, 2011 1:10 pm

June1-August 30, 2011

Taiwanese Artist Yen-Ting Chung creates a pared-down, primitive world, one existing as though at the beginning of time, and imbues the creatures that populated it with a sense of quiet alienation. The flightless birds, chubby kiwi-like creatures, wolf-like creatures, long snake-like creatures and unknown creatures build up her personal mythology. Those creatures were made up by basic strokes from writing the Chinese characters. Chung took apart the Chinese characters and put them back together to become a new “creature”.

The ancient creators of the Chinese characters observed the animals and made them pictographic Chinese characters. The pictographic Chinese characters in her drawings went through a language migration in that they were translated into anthropomorphic characters from a fictional cosmology to represent her worldview. Deconstructing the Chinese characters and creating her own characters is like an observation of her inner self which reflects the world she lives in. Through the calligraphy-style drawing, sculptures and animation, she finds where the creatures live, what that world looks like and how they develop their world. It is a place Chung looks forward to discovering and where she belongs.

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By ajones, September 1, 2010 1:27 pm

September 1-November 30, 2010

Chen Ching-Yao’s recent digital works explore role playing through processes of various objects, collections, costumes, and productions that create scenarios that cross time and space. His use of humor, wit and illogical postures challenge one’s aesthetics and accepted vernacular of everyday common scenes and in history itself. By role playing and his virtual stage re-construction, he constructs a cultural collage which is comprised of symbols, white-washed history and consumptive stimulation. This process allows for him to pull and push out ideas that are both conflicting and complimentary to his world view. His heavy use of sub-culture and post-colonization are the obvious in his staged scenarios, however, the amount of satire and play involved downplay the “heavy handedness” that could be associated with the work that in the end make for great works.

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By ajones, June 1, 2010 12:06 pm

LIU SHIH-TUNG, International Artist In Residence from Taiwan

June – August, 2010
Mixed Media

Drawing, cutting, and pasting is Liu’s daily routine. The interaction between hands and materials conveys his life experience. He locates himself in strange images, discovering new wonders in commonplace photo images and objects. The artist tries to choose an unusual path and intends to create possibilities for unlimited imagination. His work reveals the folk art atmosphere of the paper cutting skill.

Liu Shih Tung was born in 1970 in Taiwan. Lu lives and works in Taipei, and received his MFA from Taipei National University of Arts. He has held many solo exhibitions at museums and galleries, including Taipei Fine Arts Museum; Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts; and Young-Un Museum of Contemporary Art. His group exhibitions include Art Beijing; Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts; Fubon Art Foundation, Taipei; Gwanjiu Art Museum, Korea; Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, and Taipei Fine Arts Museum. He has won the Taipei Arts Prize, was selected by the Cultural Affairs Bureau of Taipei, residency at Young-Un Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea. He also gained  a Fellowship from the Shiy De-Jinn Foundation Art Center, and won the New York Art Creativity Award of the Asian Cultural Council, Taipei County Prize, Art Exhibition of Taipei County, and “River: New Asian Art A  Dialogue In Taipei”, Taipei County Cultural Center. His works have been collected by the National Taiwan Museum of Art.