Asian Arts Initiative & MadeULook Productions
Opening: Friday, June 12, 2009
Time: 5:30pm - 7:30pm
Location:
Asian Arts Initiative
1219 Vine Street (Chinatown North)
Philadelphia, PA
Phone:2155570455
Email: info@asianartsinitiative.org
URBAN CONVERGENCE a high-energy exhibition
Exhibit: June 12 – August 2, 2009 (see below for gallery hours)
Opening Reception: Friday, June 12, 5:30 - 7:30 p.m.
Live b-boy performances by Dreamerz & Stylers Crews
The marriage between art and culture has never been more prominent than it is today. Examples abound: Damien Hirst's paintings as the backdrop of Jay-Z's music videos; Takashi Murakami's designs on Louis Vuitton's accessories and Kanye West's album cover; graffiti art on Converse sneakers, Sprint advertisements, and energy drinks; Shepard Fairey's iconic "HOPE" portrait of President Obama.
These collaborations reflect an unprecedented merging and morphing of artistic genres and culture—high art with street art, underground with pop, fine art with street culture—that is breaking down social barriers and dated paradigms and clearing space for new ideas and aesthetics.
Hailing from metropolitan hubs throughout the country—Philadelphia, New York, San Francisco, Chicago, and Washington D.C.—these artists will share exciting work in a variety of mediums and styles that demonstrate a nationwide convergence toward a fresh contemporary sensibility with an urban edge: Pose II, Joshua Mays, Dave Cramske, Isaac Lin, Rodney Camarce, Jesse Olanday, Sun You, Figments by Ciriaco, Anjni Raol, Shin Ae Tassia, Chanika Svetla, Bret Syfert, Junghwa O'Connell, Miss Tina Wong, Teel MUL, and Dan "R5" Barojas.
Urban Convergence is curated by Jeff Cylkowski, a Korean American adoptee and Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary painter, muralist, and hip-hop artist. Before receiving a formal art education from the Pratt Institute, he spent years immersed in urban subcultures. The spirit of that experience continues to inform his work today. In summer 2009, he will be Artist-in-Residence at the Asian Arts Initiative.
The residency will include a six-week series of painting and mural-making workshops with local youth in partnership with the City of Philadelphia Mural Arts Program, beginning July 6 and culminating with an exhibition of new work on August 14, 2009.
Gallery hours: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday – Friday
(215)557-0455 or www.asianartsinitiative.org
Tuesday, May 26, 2009
Sunday, May 17, 2009
Mythical Montage -
Paintings Parallel 3D Animated Video
Nina Kuo , painter - Lorin Roser, animator
at Gallery 456, NYC
Mythical Montage - Paintings Parallel 3D Animated VideoNina Kuo , painter - Lorin Roser, animator
at Gallery 456
June 12 – July 10, 2009
Press release: There is a unique interplay between this duo of Artists –Animated Video loops by Lorin Roser capture the Asian-inspired Painted scenes by Nina Kuo. Subjects include classical scholar or Tai Chi figures that evoke modern-day cultural realities. Both presentations of “Bubbling Pond” and floating sculptural shapes of scholar rocks are constructed in moving animations and in a painting showing dynamic bursting visualizations. Colorful. Pop icons of urban life are introduced as in the “Tang Lady Housewife” painting while the video uses architectonic models with cyber vacuum cleaner in offbeat fantasy scenes of abstracted compositions that dazzle us. Futuristic connotations capturing the anachronistic mood of Chinese literati landscapes are taken from Huangshan or Fu Bao Shi landscapes with montaged cyber forms that take us to another dimension. We enter as scholars retreating into a surreal meditative spirit. One examines the spiritual journey of each work and its influences from cultural traditions to new perspectives. These large-scale Kuo paintings present layers of textured forms as Roser’s 3D animations are juxtaposed computer-generated moving frames with choreographed music. Both forms reveal an impact of emotion and imaginary narratives that reveal how invented memories of past lost land-scapes are transformed into futuristic scenes. These works truly evoke new cyber forms that are montaged into an abstracted mental world. There is strong evidence that Kuo’s paintings became inspiration for Roser’s 3-D Animated Videos and vice versa – a rare travelogue of experiences.
Exhibited: New Museum, Brooklyn Museum, P.S1, Newark Museum, Flushing Town Hall, Plum Blossoms, Samuel Dorsky Museum, Cheryl McGinnis Gallery
Reviews: Eleanor Heartney (catalog), Jonathan Goodman (Art in America), Benjamin Genocchio and Holland Cotter (New York Times)
Opening June 12 - 6:00-8:30 pm Reception – Open to All
Location: 456 Broadway – at Grand St. NYC
Poetry with Luis Francia, writer, poet, professor at NYU, won PEN Center Open Book award and author of Phillippine American book “Eye of the Fish”
Live Music - Helen Yee, member “Music From China” and “Invert” Ensemble
PRESS Conference- June 11 – thanks to Alan Chow and Vivian Huang
Hours- M-F 12-6 pm or by appointment
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
Present Tense Biennial
Artists Reflect on
Contemporary Chinese Culture
Chinese Culture Center &
Kearny Street Workshop, San Francisco
Present Tense Biennial Artists Reflect on Contemporary Chinese Culture
Presented by the Chinese Culture Center in collaboration with Kearny Street Workshop, this biennial exhibition showcases vibrant and diverse perspectives on contemporary Chinese culture. Featuring artists from the Bay Area and beyond, the show includes a wide array of media at the Center’s main gallery and in storefronts throughout Chinatown. Curated by Kevin B. Chen with Abby Chen & Ellen Oh.
Chinese Culture Center
750 Kearny Street, 3rd Floor
San Francisco, CA 94108
www.c-c-c.org; 415-986-1822
Image: Endless column, blue and white variation by Larry Lee. Porcelain bowls, threaded rod.
Satellite Installation throughout Chinatown:
55 Columbus Street
664, 665 and 667 Clay Street
17 Walter U. Lum Place
704, 708, 701 and 716 Kearny Street
May 1 – August 23, 2009
Public Opening: Saturday, May 2 at 1pm
Gallery Hours: Tuesdays – Saturdays 10 am to 4 pm
Sundays 12 noon to 4 pm
ADMISSION: Free
TOURS: Contact ellen@kearnystreet.org to schedule a private or group tour.
CATALOG: Available for order at CCC Gallery store or online.
Image: Infinite Regress by Michelle Yun, 2009
Featuring 參展藝術家
Tamara Albaitis 塔瑪拉
Nancy Chan 陳曼玲
Anita Wen-Shin Chang 張文馨
Julie Chang 張維倫
Thomas Chang 張凌生
Sergio de la Torre
Cui Fei 崔斐
Justin Hoover 胡智騰
Bu Hua卜樺
Arthur Huang 黃介彥
Suzanne Husky
Khiang H. Hei 夏漢強
Larry Lee 李煥庭
Sean Marc Lee 李荊山
Liting Liang 梁麗婷
Lucy Kalyani Lin 林冠瑩
Ken Lo 羅文驎
Fang Lu 方璐
Maleonn 馬良
Elizabeth Moy
Ming Mur-Ray 張賢明
Tucker Nichols
Nadim Sabella
Zachary Royer Scholz
Indigo Som 岑志廉
Charlene Tan
Patrick Tsai 蔡仁杰
Imin Yeh 葉艾明
Xudung Yu 喻旭東
David & Michelle Yun 雲明正 雲翠蘭
http://presenttense.us/Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Mike Ming: "Salon Bob"
at Bob Bar, NYC
Mike Ming
"Salon Bob"
presented by Bob Bar
Through May 12, 2009
bob bar
235 eldridge street
new york, ny 10002
The below is copied from the artist's Web site about the exhibition:
http://www.mikeming.com/
The art show is an abstract painting show about different ideas and techniques and themes that are based on oceans and story based influenced imagery. It is abstract in the sense of trying to create a painting of representational ideas and themes, such as waves, organic shapes, patterns and some figurative works. I hope to create an atmosphere that can take the viewer to an imaginary landscape of someplace almost recognizable and an image of some thing almost tangible. I also hope that the works can be enjoyed both visual and subconscious. I thought about the pieces hanging on the wall as if they were sounds, music and melodies that have been created in visual context. I created the works for me to open new ideas and to be interpretive, like performance art. I create the work without a true idea of the ideas I wanted to project but through intuitive visual and mental approach to the canvas int he way a sculpture might pound the rock until a shape appeared. It is a 'freeing' the visual expressions as much as it is 'coaxing.' The pieces are also created as a continuation of my 'live painting' expressions, where I might approach painting 'live' by more feeling out the location and situation rather than having an 'idea' before the show and creating a work that is more 'applied for' the situation. 'Applying for' reflects a preparedness but maybe not improvised. I imagine myimprovisation idea stems from music and modern paintings. Although the show still is reflective of subject matter, I try to create a sense of imporvisation because the difference in day to day evolution of a person, can sometimes be samll and sometimes can be overwhelming. It is with these ideas I create the show, 'Salon Bob.' The show's title 'Salon Bob' is reflective of the multiple style of painting expressions and daily technical improvisational approaches because it is also a reflection of my own personal journey to combine my many different sensory influence to the daily organic approach as a painter for myself. In creating these paintings in different techniques, either exaggerated from a usual approach or a tangent of my 'oler' approaches. For me, it is a reflection of my past as I look to the future in my current present state of being. I realize, the next step is always without certainty and the future is both exciting and frightening. My painting journey is not alsways a confident expression but the paintings help me to strive forward and be in peace with myself as I learn more about myself and it guides my growth to the future.
— from www.mikeming.com
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