The art exhibition "100 YEARS" a three-person exhibition featuring work by
JIANG Qigu | KUO Cheng-Yung | WANG Frank Yefeng
opens on Friday, April 6, with a reception from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm
In conjunction with the 17th Annual Asian American Showcase at the Gene Siskel Film Center of the School the Foundation for Asian American Independent Media (FAAIM) is proud to be part of the Chicago Chinatown Centennial Celebration in presenting the three-person exhibit “100 Years” featuring Wang Frank Yefeng, Cheng-Yung Kuo, and noted painter and SAIC faculty Qigu Jiang.
These three local Chinese artists representing three generations of immigration into the United States will collaborate to explore their connection to, ideas about, and reactions to this neighborhood within the past century and as it continues to evolve. Their project will strive to combine their own different approaches, processes, and aesthetics from traditional ink brush painting to digital media that forms the outline of a mythical dragon from the collective body of their own individual work stretched out across the length of the gallery cafe wall.
Reading more info about the 17th Annual Asian American Showcase (April 6 through 19)
Noun: A body of water or air moving in a definite direction, esp. through a surrounding body of water or air in which there is less movement. Adjective: Belonging to the present time; happening or being used or done now.
33 Contemporary Gallery embraces both meanings of the word "CURRENT" in order to give shape to an exhibition that symbolizes the current new direction of the gallery to promote international collaborations and also showcases the current works being made by its multidisciplinary artists. The exhibition takes place in the main gallery space of the Zhou B Art Center.
CURRENT coincides with "NETWORK: From Turin to Chicago and Vice-Versa" which takes place at 33 Contemporary Gallery. This exhibition is the result of an international collaboration between Turin and Chicago. The collaboration begins this month with an exhibition of contemporary Italian artists in 33 Contemporary Gallery and it is followed by an exhibition of contemporary Chicago artists in the Museo Regionale Di Scienze Naturali Di Torino, Italy from July 5 to August 30, 2012.
Showing a collaborative video installation with Ei Jane Janet Lin.
Experience is Never Unattached
Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, IL
August 16–September 22
Reception: Friday, September 9, 4:30–7:00 p.m.
By favoring experience over interpretation, Experience is Never Unattached is rooted in exploratory and collaborative modes of making and viewing. This exhibition showcases new work by current MFA students and recent alumni and is curated by Leah Oren (A 2013), curatorial assistant, Department of Exhibitions and Exhibition Studies and Jeannette Tremblay (MA 2011).
Featured artists include Andrew Barco, Eric askauskas, Marissa Lee Benedict, Victoria Bradford, Craig Butterworth, Scott A. Carter, Federico Cattaneo, Benjamin Chaffee, Al Díaz-Palacios, Vicki Fowler, Steven Frost, Alex Gartelmann, Katya Grokhovsky, Antonia Gurkovska, David R. Harper, Akemi Hong, Ji Youn Hong, Kelly K. Jones, Cheng-Yung Kuo, Ei Jane Janet Lin, Ivan Lozano, Alfredo Martinez, Su Hyun Nam, James Alured Powers, Matthew Schlagbaum, Charlie Schneider, Jonas Sebura, Nicole Seisler, Soo Shin, Benjamin Stagl, Amber Renaye Thomas, Clare Torina, and Rafael Vega.
Showing two collaborative photographs with Ei Jane Janet Lin for SEXY exhibition.
The Foundation of Asian American Independent Media (FAAIM) proudly presents SEXY in conjunction with the 16th Annual Asian American Showcase...
Opening Reception: Friday, April 1 from 7 to 10 pm
featuring works by Adam Van Eeckhout, You-Ni Chae, Joy Higgins, Ian Miyamura, Cheng-Yung Kuo, Margaret Kerr, Chien-An Yuan, Adrian Wong, Jenyu Wang, James Kao, Injung Oh, Jordan Fu, Ei Jane Janet Lin, Mayumi Lake, Ling-An Fang, Nori Itsuma, Shreya Sethi, and Johannah Silva
April 1 through May 20
Gene Siskel Film Center
164 North State St.
Chicago, IL 60601
Nowadays just about any and everything can be categorized as “sexy”. But what turns people on oftentimes derives from the eye that then
travels below the neckline to lower regions encompassing how something or someone smells or tastes or feels as well.
So does it affect the mind as something sensual? Or is it more physical, a biological condition or chemical reaction or physiological attraction, perhaps?
Curatorial project:
SEXIER
Opening Reception: Friday, March 10 from 7 to 10 pm
Molar Productions in collaboration with Cheng-Yung Kuo and Injung Zhoushi presents SEXIER...
A no-holds-barred, edgier take of what is sexy cum (pun intended) pornographic ranging from photography to performance to installation to painting to sculpture past the usual objects of desire.
Featuring
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Jeffrey Grauel, Eliot Taguiam, Alex Zak, Ei Jane Janet Lin, Miao Jiaxin, Heeran Lee, Zihan Loo, Paul Hopkin, Johannah Silva, Ana Ut Kei, Greyson Hong, Andreas Fischer, Jenyu Wang, Jason Dunda, Wang Ye-Feng, Jeanne Medina with Alexandria Eregbu, Mayumi Lake, Susannah Papish, Kirsten Leenaars, Rebecca Walz, Heidi Norton, Chris Naka, Maya Mackrandilal, Alex Herrera, Qing Yang and Tim Schade, Kirk Faber, Matthew Harrison, Judith Brotman, Brent Garbowski, Paola Cabal, Diego Leclery, Naomi Yorke, Edmund Chia, C.C. Ann Chen, Ling-An Fang, James Kao, I Was Born With Two Mango Tribes (Chien Yuan, Jon Monteverde, Greg Grucel), Carol Jackson, John Henley, Academy Records, Jamilee Polson, MZL, Steven L. Jones, Gabriel Bizen Akagawa, Helen McElroy, Joshua Slater, Jason Jozwiak, Joe Mault, Laura Lynn Hsieh, Jiankun Xie, Erin LaRocque
SEXIER is the NC-17 (hopefully) rated version of “Sexy”, a PG-13/maybe R rated group show featuring works by artists tantalizing the mind, beguiling senses and teasing to hint at something suggestive or provocative opening April 1st as part of the 16th Annual Asian American Showcase at the Gene Siskel Film Center.
Curatorial project:
Displacement
January 21 to February 11, 2011
33 Collective Gallery
Zhou B. Art Center
1029 W. 35th St.First Floor, Chicago, IL 60609, Ph. 708-837-4534
Opening Reception: Friday, January 21 from 7 to 10 pm
The exhibition aims to explore and challenge the themes of conflict, displacement, and personal identity. Featuring four artists: Emilie Crewe, Brookhart Jonquil, Wang Ye-Feng, Jenyu Wang, and Lantian Xie, the exhibition invites the viewer to renegotiate their perception of a global society. The work presented in this exhibition conceptually and physically intervenes and de-constructs objects, space, ideas and the individual body, in order to formulate new identities. Curated by Cheng-Yung Kuo.
Showing a collaborative video installation, In-Between, with Annette Elliot and Nazafarin Lotfi
ALL THE BEST,
Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, IL
December 17 - January 22, 2011
This exhibition features new work, including performances, installations, and language-based projects, as developed in the Writing course Text Off the Page. The featured artists include Shanita Bigelow, Troy Briggs, Annette Elliot, Sarah Jones, Cheng-Yung Kuo, Nazafarin Lotfi, J.M. Lowe, Joel Parsons, David Scheier, Jillian Soto, Hurmat Ul Ain, and Colin Winnette.
Opening Reception: Friday, November 19 from 7 to 10 pm
The Immediate Mark engages the most basic and intimate act of art-making, making a mark. Be it placing graphite to paper, brush and paint to canvas, a gouge to wood, or an impression in clay or metal, the immediate mark signifies the physical and tactile beginning of an idea. It is the impetus that sets in motion one or thousands of following marks to achieve the artist's intent. By making the mark the artist accepts commitment and challenges the new, the different, and the as yet unexplored.
Pacific Culture Foundation’s Art Center is pleased to present 【unsuspected revelations】, a solo exhibition by 郭正雍 Cheng-Yung Kuo, who recently received his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The exhibition will include the COMPETE (Reflections on Reality # 23) from his "Reflection" series photography images. COMPETE, an integration of the Chicago architectural style with strong humanities was favored by President of the United States, Barack Obama, and was displayed in the Washington D.C. Obama’s office when he was the Illinois Senator.
The works on display used "reflections" as the breakthrough point, using a specific reflection of the medium to translate fleeting moments in life and recorded those eternal lights. Through the image creations, a bridge for the audience is constructed. Not only does 郭正雍 Cheng-Yung Kuorecords these sights of richness in each focus, but he also condenses the instant of beauty, truth, and fantasy, which invoke both self reflection and idiosyncrasy.
In “Reflection” series, 郭正雍 Cheng-Yung Kuo uses different vehicle to capture images derived from his own personal experience while he was in a foreign environment, battling both linguistic adjustments and the ever - increasing longing for the warmth of home. These feelings were difficult to express verbally, and they serve as inspirations for 郭正雍 Cheng-Yung Kuo’s works.
Pacific Cultural Foundation’s goal is to enhance the cultural quality of life and promote social harmony, as well as gain the international and inter-regional mutual understanding and friendship as the purpose of processing activities. This time we are inviting the artist, 郭正雍 Cheng-Yung Kuo, to share his reflections of his life in the United States, as well as his works from the United States back to Taiwan. Let people see his creation of photographic art, things from a different perspective and things they never could have imagined in 【unsuspected revelations】.
Typhoon Morakot caused wide-spread damage in southern and eastern of Taiwan on the 7th and 8th of august of this year. Although the winds of Typhoon Morakot were not so severe, the storm dropped heavy amounts of rain, especially in Pingtung and Taitung which received record-breaking rainfall. The massive flooding has destroyed bridges and roads, and submerged many homes forcing residents to evacuate and stay in shelters.
Taiwan has officially requested assistance from the international community to help victims of Typhoon Morakot. A group of artists and volunteers in Taiwan is organizing a charity bazaar/exhibition and fundraiser, which will be held on August 22nd and 23rd, 2009, as part of "ARTTOGETHER‧ rebuilding our homes" event. Hundreds of artists have been invited to exhibit and sell their work. Revenues will be used entirely to help victims of Typhoon Morakot. All of the money will be donated to the World Vision Taiwan - Typhoon Morakot Help. We hope that you will join us and support the relief effort.
【Donation Account】
All of the money will be donated to World Vision Taiwan – Typhoon Morakot Response account
【 To purchase artwork】
(A)If you have a facebook account, please search 藝起義賣’s photo album to view all of the artwork online. Leave a comment with your name and contact information on the page of the artwork that you would like to purchase.
(B)Enter blog at http://art88.pixnet.net/album/set/15337572，to view photo album of the artwork; leave your name, contact information, and title of the artwork on the guestbook.
(C)On 8/22 and 8/23, from 11:00am to 7:00pm, purchase artwork on site at Impressions Art Gallery – Impressions Contemporary
【 Payment】
To simplifies the process, PLEASE do the following steps:
Pay by cash or check. Do not remit cash.
Make a check payable to: World Vision Taiwan
Account : Typhoon Morakot response
Make a prompt check and to [account payee only]
For individual: leave your name, phone number, address, donation for (88 Flood)
For company: name, contact phone number, address, donation for (88 Flood)
【PS】
This charity bazaar is organized by volunteers and artists, is not affiliated with any private organization. We are hoping that there will be more galleries and artists joining us. Regardless who you are in the arts circles, let us together and make effort to help people who was affected by Typhoon Morakot’s.
* Special Thanks to:
Taipei Village, 視覺藝術聯盟, Dimension Endowment of Art (DEOA), GARDEN CITY publishers, Chulu Art + Design, and all of the fervent volunteers.
*感動 捐出義賣作品有熱心人士認購 (Tears) donated work has been sold. THANK YOU .
Insight: A Survey of 33 Collective Gallery Artists
June 22 - July 30, 2009
Opening: Thursday, June 25, 4:30 to 7:30 pm
Christopher Art Gallery
Prairie State College
202 South Halsted Street
Chicago Heights, IL 60411
Telephone (708) 709-3500
Crossing
The 3rd Taiwanese Student Association (TSA) exhibition of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC)
June 19 to July 12, 2009
Opening Reception: Friday, June 19 from 7 - 10 pm
Every day people cross paths and interact with others, creating intersections of communication. The concept of “crossing” bridges the culture gap and artistic valueto produce a broaden perspective of art from the intersection of the artists and the audience. The exhibition features the essence of multi-cultural overlap of Taiwanese artists practicing in Chicago. When the alien turns into the native, domestic into the foreign, struggles and conflicts ensue. Experiencing theiridentities of being culturally marginalized, the selected works of the Taiwanese of SAIC voice their understanding and initiate a public dialogue with the audience.
The National Self-Portrait Exhibition is one of our most viewed and anticipated exhibitions to date. Now in its 5th year, the self-portrait exhibition is a two-part exhibit. Our guest juror, Gregg Hertzlieb, has selected 50 works for the gallery exhibition and 100 works for a permanent online show to open simultaneously with the gallery exhibition on May 15, 2009.
