Work

AKUTAGAWA TELE-VISION: MENTAL SCENERY (或精神的風景画)
 
I AM OBSESSED WITH COMBINING AND CONTRASTING ANCIENT CLASSICAL PAINTING TECHNIQUES WITH CONTEMPORARY CONCEPTS. 

MY MAIN MEDIUM IS EGG TEMPERA WHICH IS ONE OF THE OLDEST WESTERN PAINTING TECHNIQUES. EGG TEMPERA CONSISTS OF MIXING COLOR POWDER PIGMENTS WITH EGG YOLK. 
 
CLASSICAL LITERATURE IS A CONTINUOUS INSPIRATION IN MY ART. 
 
MY NEW SERIES OF EGG TEMPERA PAINTINGS IS INSPIRED BY THE LITERARY WORK OF WORLD-RENOWNED JAPANESE WRITER, RYUNOSUKE AKUTAGAWA - FAMOUS FOR HIS GRIPPING, CLEAR-EYED GLIMPSES OF HUMAN BEHAVIOR. IN THIS SERIES I AM EXPRESSING THE MENTAL SCENERY I SEE IN MY HEAD WHEN I READ AKUTAGAWA'S SHORT STORIES. I RE-IMAGINED SIX OF HIS SHORT STORIES AS SIX TV EPISODES FOUND ON A LOST VHS TAPE - THUS SYNTHESIZED MY MEMORIES OF VCR TECHNOLOGY (INVENTED IN JAPAN) WITH READING AKUTAGAWA IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL INTO . . . MY OWN NOSTALGIC WORLD.

 

OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE : Solo exhibition at Space City, Los Angeles (March 16th - April 14th, 2024) 

 

 

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 OEDIPUS - WORLD OF HORROR
IN THIS SERIES OF EGG TEMPERA PAINTINGS I BRING ATTENTION TO THE SHOCKING SURREALITY OF ‘PRE-DETERMINED FATE’ IN SOPHOCLES GREEK TRAGEDY ‘OEDIPUS REX’ BY WAY OF MY FASCINATION WITH 80s SPECIAL MAKE-UP EFFECTS SPECIFICALLY FROM THE “SPLATTER FILM” GENRE (I.E. MOVIES SUCH AS “EVIL DEAD”, “DEMONS” AND “DAY OF THE DEAD”) - THIS TYPE OF MODERN RE-INVENTION OF THE MAIN CHARACTERS SHINES A NEON LIGHT ON THE OFTEN OVERLOOKED GRAPHIC VIOLENCE DEEPLY EMBEDDED IN CLASSICAL LITERATURE.
WHEN WE FOLLOW OEDIPUS JOURNEY FROM BEGINNING TO END WE BECOME OVERWHELMED BY THE KILLING FEELING OF DESPAIR – ETERNAL DESPAIR. MY OBJECTIVE IN THIS WORK IS TO EMPHASIZE THE VIVID AND HORRIFIC ATMOSPHERE OF PRE-CALCULATED DOOM AND DEATH.
TO UNKNOWINGLY LIVE A LIFE WHICH HAS BEEN CONTROLLED BY EXTERIOR FORCES AND CANNOT BE CHANGED.
THAT IS FATE.

 

OFFICIAL PRESS RELEASE : Two person show at Beyorslf Gallery, Los Angeles (Dec. 2nd - 5th, 2021) 

 

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