Invisible: Box Series solo show in Hall Gallery.

It does not mean nonexistent, even when we cannot see it.
看不見的並不代表不存在


Pink: Grandfather


Blue: Girlfriend


Orange: Dreaming


Green: Mother

Hall Street Gallery
http://www.scad.edu/exhibitions/savannah/exhibitions.cfm

212 W. Hall St.

912.525.5518

Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-5:30 p.m.

My first solo show in USA, welcome!

After coming USA, I focus on exploring the shape and the color of human desire. In this series, I draw images from Internet with strange positions for the front side of boxes. For the side view, I generate large amount of colorful semi-fluid to reveal these ambiguous desire underneath.

I love you so much that I want to hug you.

I love you so much that I want to have a French Kiss with you.

I love you so much that I want to strip you off.

I love you so much that I want to make love with you.

I love you so much that I want to…

I love you so much…

It is a shame that SCAD prohibited showing part boxes.
Their narrow standard perfectly proves my intention:
Human beings always chose what they want to see. No matter how true fact is, we still can pretend it is invisible. Even they cancel all of my boxes, I am still right here.


Deep Red: Fucking You

Open Studio in EFA, NYC

YI-HSIN TZENG: FLOW in NYC
"物欲橫流" OPEN STUDIO


Front side...


Back side...

YI-HSIN TZENG: FLOW in NYC
OPEN STUDIO IN EFA (THE LIZABETH FOUNDATION)

Wednesday, November 19th, 2008
6:00~9:00 pm, Studio510
323 WEST 39th STREET, NEW YORK, NY 10018
Please Take A, C, E to 42nd Street (Port Auth)

This is my first public show in NYC.
Welcome to come and pass this to your friends.

When I was a child, my father always told me: if you feel thirsty, just draw a plum.Then, I pick up my pen and tried to make a gorgeous fruit. I felt happy because it really worked.
I am facinated with "ambiguous illusion," using sugar-coated appearance to package dirty or disturbing contents.This time, I collected large amount of trash from sidewalk, floor, subway, trash cans or neighbors. They may be bagels, lunch boxes, paper bag, traffic sign or the cover of sewers...And then I uses "print" and "foam" to transfers them into a kind of monument.

Flow All Over...

coming from...


and splashing out...

They will occupy the whole world...

TALLAHASSEE INTERNATIONAL 23TH SHOW

TALLAHASSEE INTERNATIONAL
23TH ANNUAL JURIED COMPETITION

Date: August 25 - October 5, 2008

Reception: August 29, 5-8pm

Hours:
Monday - Friday, 9:00 am - 4:00 pm

Saturday and Sunday, 1:00 pm - 4:00 pm (September-April)

Closed on Holidays and weekends May-August, unless otherwise noted

http://www.mofa.fsu.edu/pages/participate/tallahasseeinternational08.shtml

The 23rd Tallahassee International (Upper Gallery)— is an annual, juried competition.
Jurors: Allys Palladino-Craig and Joe Sanders.
From a field of 249 entrants, competing from across the nation and internationally, this year's Faculty jurors selected 51 works to be exhibited. The works represent a wide variety of media and are artistically diverse.

Open Studio in Alexander Hall, GA

Yi-Hsin Tzeng, Taipei, Taiwan, M.F.A. student in painting, "Flow 8," acrylic on canvas.

SCAD hosts Open Studio Night, Oct. 25
http://www.scad.edu/news/2008/open-studio-night.cfm
Although I am not in Savannah, you are still welcome to check my work.

Flow in NYC...

Flow in NYC...

From August to November, I have my residency at Elizabeth Foundation, NYC.
This is not my first time visiting this big apple, so I focus on living and creating.
Because of various materials and art supply here, I continue my previous series "Flow," but transfer to "found-object," including magazines, paper, junk and cardboards.

The Length of a Breath

Video for Artist 05~





If you want to watch, check here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoWVToM2OJM
During the length of a breath, how long and how far could I achieve?
"Ah...................................." until being exhausted.

Pretending

Video for Artist 04~

Communication is the basic part for human beings. However, do we really communicate with each other? Or do we really understand what we said and what the other person said?

May this just be a kind of pretending imagination?

They are enjoying their conversation.

Nevertheless, one girl speaks Mandarin and the other girl speaks Japanese.

Pencil

Video for Artist 03~

The forever failure is my topic.

The process of torturing one pencil is also the process of torturing my viewers.

Surface

Video for Artist 02~Surface

I used spray air gun to have some intimate coversation with the surface of body.

Accompanying with the sound of "Si...............," viewers are walking on my body, from input (left hand) to output (right hand).

The Last Painting in Modernism

Video for Artists 01~
The Last Painting in Modernism / Shaving Hair






This is my first video work in USA. (I did some before...) It is also my first high quality film because we rented some professional equipment from film department. I used vertical composition to emphasize the property of painting; however, this is a huge challenge to my cameraman....she almost died.

Desoto Gallery

July 11~17, 2008

MFA Painting Preview

Featuring work by
Yi-Hsin Tzeng, Hilary Scott, Charles Clary, Mike Dowley, Amanda Brown.

This summer, I had a group show with my classmates in desoto Gallery

http://www.desotorow.org/events/july08.html

When I was in Ox-Bow...

Dye+Acrylic paint

This summer I went to Ox-Bow http://www.ox-bow.org/, one residency on the shores of Lake Michigan. This residency has strong connestion with SAIC (School of the Art Institute of Chicago); therefore, I encountered a lot of people from there, including teachers and students. I appreciated this valuable opportunity and expected to go there again.

This time I took one course "Studio Drawing: Experimental Approaches" from Scott Reeder and Tyson Reeder. I tried several stange and exciting ways to redefine my paintings. I explored the unknown field in this unfamiliar environment. This really stimulates and provided me more possibilties.

I am looking forward to ...

I am vomiting...

I am vomiting...

Following with the shaving girl, I break through the wall. Because my stomach has been filled, I need to vomit...Be careful, or she (he) will hurt you.

Do you have body fluid?

Inner Landscape-colorful part
March, 2008, acrylic & latex on wood panel

Actually, my "Flow series" started from this piece "Inner Landscape."
Nobody knows these semi-liquid body fluid coming from where, but I know they want to ingulf everything, including you and me. I enjoy on these automatic process and unpredictable result.

My Resume...

Something About Me...

EDUCATION
1998-2001 National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan, BFA Fine Arts
2007-present Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA, MFA candidate in painting,
(Awarded Artistic Honors Full Tuition Fellowship)

SOLO EXHIBITION
2008 Invisible, Hall Street Gallery, GA, USA
2005 I love myself, Shin Le Yuan Art Space, Taipei, Taiwan
2005 Inner, National Hsinchu University of Education Gallery, Hsinchu, Taiwan
(Sponsored by Li Cai Pei’s Arts Foundation, Taiwan)
2004 Anxiety, Shin Le Yuan Art Space, Taipei, Taiwan
(Sponsored by National Culture and Arts Foundation, Taiwan)


AWARDS & SCHOLARSHIP
2008 Awarded the Gelman Trust Endowed Scholarship by SCAD, GA, USA
2008 Selected by Studio Visit Magazine, Boston, MA, USA
2008 Accepted by Vermont Studio Center & Artist’s Grant, Johnson, Vermont, USA
2008 Accepted for Combined Talents Competition, Florida State University, FL, USA
2008 Awarded by Ox-Bow residency & Metternich scholarship, Chicago, IL, USA
2008 Selected as NY City Studio Residency at the Elizabeth Foundation, NYC, USA
2007 Selected as the Juror's Award in the Loop, Link and Tangle show, Dimension Gallery
2007 Accepted for Open Art -13th annual Art Fair, Telfair Museum of Art
2006 Qualified in ROYAL Skateboard Competition
2004 Qualified in TAIPEI ART AWARD, Taipei Fine Arts Museum
2001 Qualified in 10th International Biennial Print and Drawing Exhibition
Winner of the Emerging New Artists of SLY Art Space
Awarded the Professor Shiu-Ping, Liao Scholarship
2000 Awarded the Professor Yin-Huei, Chen Creative Oil Painting Scholarship
Awarded the Professor You-Ren, Yu Printmaking Scholarship
Awarded the former principal Zong-Liang, Zhuang Scholarship

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008 Harmony in Diversity - Compatibility of 19 Cross-Strait Art Spirits, Asia Art Center, Taipei
2008 The Tallahasse International, FSU Museum of Fine Arts, FL, USA
2008 Eternal Adventure land-The SLY Art Space 10th Anniversary Exhibition,Taipei, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan
2008 How the Go? Graphic Reality, Como la Ve Realidad Grafica, Colombia
2008 Art in Opposition, Indigo Sky Community Gallery, Savannah, GA
2007 LOOP, LINK and TANGLE, Dimension Gallery, Savannah, GA
2007 Open Art-13th annual Art Fair, Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, GA
2006 City Mambo, International Exchange Exhibition of Stone Villa, Sydney vs. SLY Art Space, Taipei
2005 ROYAL ELASTICS Free Art, Taipei Artist Village, Taipei
2005 Taipei Art Fair International 2005, Taipei World Trade Center, Taipei
2005 Liu Hsing Gan Mau, An Exchange Exhibition between North and South Alternative Spaces, New Pier, Kaoshsiung; SLY Art Space, Taipei
2004 Body Examination/ Experimentation/ Experience, NTU Gallery, Taipei
2004 Taipei Art Award, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei
Open Your Heart for the Martial Art of Iron Hammer, the Opening Exhibition of the 6th-term Exhibition, SLY Art Space, Taipei
2002 CO2-Taiwan Avant-garde Document, Hua Shan Art District, Taipei
2002 Recycle Objects in Unusual Disposal, SLY Art Space, Taipei
2002 Super Deluxe Display, the Opening Exhibition of the 5th-term, SLY Art Space, Taipei
2001 Sugar-coated Hot Pepper Confetti-Emerging New Artists Exhibition, SLY Art Space, Taipei
2001 10th International Biennial Print and Drawing Exhibition, TFAM, Taipei
Looking for Three Schools, Hua Shan Art District, Taipei
2000 PALA, PALA, Secret Reunion, NTNU Art Gallery, Taipei

What are you doing? Kids...

Flow series no.3-Teletubbies
December, 2007, acrylic & latex on paper

Under the innocent appearance, there are large amount of nasty desire growing. When they can not feel satisfied, they will eat and play with their excrement. it may be disgusting for us, but it's the luxurious treasure for them.

Are you bad students?

Flow series no.1-Bad Students
December, 2007, acrylic on paper

I want to do something bad, but I am afraid of being punished. So, I pretend I am an excellent, cute and well behavior student. Under my colorful, sugar-coated appearance, no body will doubt me. Would you?

Shearing your beard..

Flow series 6-Shearing Beard

February, 2008, acrylic on paper

Standing in front of the mirrior, I used my father's shave to mimic him, shearing my illusional beard.

However, no matter how hard I tried, I still could not achieve it. What I got are just foam, blood, and frustration.

Where are you from?

Where are you from?
Everytime, when people ask me this sentence, I always feel unsettled, nervous and confused. It is really hard to convey or convince other people where or what "Taiwan" is. Because even askimg myself, I don't know where I come from.

I admit I was born in Taiwan, a familar but far away island. I had ever had strong belief in our political position, but now I doubt..

When I sat in the local elementary school and watched the Caucasian teacher taught African-American kids "Who are our American Heroes?" for the first time, I felt deeply depressed. Because I don't know who is my "Hero?" or do we believe the "Hero?"