What is Hong Kong afraid of? Although all cities possess their own local anxieties, perhaps none are as vivid and consuming as those of Hong Kong. From the fading superstitions of old to the latest urban legends, Adrian Wong reflects on Hong Kong’s landscape of fear in this series of new works. Using sculpture, installation, […]

This 1918 ArtSPACE exhibition is comprised of a series of portraits relating to childhood and the collective nostalgia for the past. These images explore the selective and elusive quality of memory that shapes our histories and questions why we sometimes tend to recreate, rather than recall, our childhood. Some of these images are framed within […]

If we translate the Chinese title of this exhibition word for word (“Have fun, play” and “Gallery”), we come close to the above formula and title of this text. In English, the title is a slightly shorter thought than when translated into Chinese. The reason for this is simply that we came up with the […]

There is nothing remotely dark about Leah Tinari’s recent solo show, “We Could Definitely Run For the Presidency,” at Mixed Greens. The artist’s work here doesn’t tackle any major issues and it certainly doesn’t take itself a bit seriously. Since her graduation from RISD in 1998, Tinari has consistently depicted the people, objects and moments […]

Sometimes all it takes to make an already professional art world event even more serious is a big pink tent adorned with amateur art and condoms. The concept behind Gulay Alpay’s not so silk, Silk Room construction of wood, pink paint, condoms and plenty of brushes and paint palettes for the general public to take […]

Gnarled branches and splayed tree trunks twist with kinetic energy in Mary Hrbacek’s charcoal drawings, “World Tree Series,” an exhibition curated by Matt Semler, director of the Roger Smith Lab Gallery. A culmination of ten years of experience in tree and figure drawing has resulted in Hrbaceks’ confident prowess in taming the vine medium to […]

In the information age, meaning has been broken into fragments: bold headlines, disembodied images and floating SoundBits are the rapid and constant messengers of knowledge. War and politics are disseminated into 15-second clips of gesticulating politicians, or bodies dispersing across a distant desert. We attempt, in our own ways, to make sense of this environment […]

Growing up around animals in a small town in Pennsylvania, Matt Forrest subsequently chose to put animal images into his prints, oil paintings and drawings. Through the small town aspect of his life story, education and church-going lifestyle, he discovered the importance of animal symbolism— that animals held a great deal of significance in every […]

The nightmares first started when I was about eight. It didn’t help that the house I lived in at the time was haunted, and that, by this time, I had already experienced several apparitions and poltergeist events—from flying cutlery to my mother’s spinning wheel turning violently while home alone watching “Laverne & Shirley.” It’s true […]

Chen Yufei’s paintings provide commentary on the difficulties that contemporary China faces in terms of its rapid urbanization and industrialization. Chen studied painting in Germany in the late 90s, and his visual vocabulary recalls the angst-ridden, fractured compositions of the pre-World War I work of Franz Marc. The artist constructs behemoth transport vehicles (jeeps, SUVs, […]