Chen Hsiu Wen

Nostalgia and culture identity - home memory in bottles

2011

Fragile Preservation Collection - Tai Chung Nan Tuen Wan He Temple Living in the changeable information world, historical conventions are gradually disappeared. Chen Hsiu Wen highlights unforgettable memory of old time and presents them in still-life style paintings. From her subjective view, family background and living experiences, she illustrates a historical building which is kept inside a glass bottle, as the western traditional folk-art “Impossible bottle...

Sing By The Branches 唱枝头 Garden doors and windows appear in almost all Wang’s Suzhou garden paintings, but what are presented in the doors and windows are often unreal images from ei...

Soar over the Mountain 轻羽千山 Garden doors and windows appear in almost all Wang’s Suzhou garden paintings, but what are presented in the doors and windows are often unreal images from...

Lei Lei 雷磊 1982 China Lei Lei’s sculptures appeal the artist‘s strong personality. He creates a beauty of silence with a pure sculpture language. Buddha figures in caves inspired ...

Tony lived with his grandmother when he was a child. He has seen many Peranakan tableware at her house. Although the artist is not the descendent of Peranakan, he is deeply influenced by multicultural environment in his growth background. Peranakan is not just one symbol of diverse cultures in Malaysia, but is more about an emotional connection between grandmother and him. This is a painting of a Kamcheng sitting on a batik. The edges of the painting has gold plates finishing. Kamcheng refers to the elaborately-decorated, traditional Peranakan storage vase and also means friendship, the theme for this year's Peranakan Festival. The Peranakans or Peranakan Chinese are a sub-ethnic group defined by their genealogical descent from the first waves of Chinese settlers in the Malay Peninsula and Indonesian Archipelago. In Malaysia, the Peranakan Chinese commonly refer to themselves as Baba-Nonya. The term Baba 峇峇 is an honorific for Straits Chinese...

"Exploration of Love" reveals the artist’s concept of bittersweet life. Happiness and depression leave marks in our life, just like those creases in batiks. All creases are gathered ...

Robin Hextrum's "Still Life for a Human Epoch" is an original, handmade oil painting that features a still life of fruit, Peony's and artifacts of wealth floating on icebergs in an ...

Sybiline's (CAN based) "Afternoon Delight" is an original, handmade oil painting that depicts a Sphynx cat eyeing a pink teacup with milk and plate with a w...

SORCERER'S BISCUIT is a new oil on canvas surrealist painting by Brooklyn, New York artist Tony Geiger. It measures 16x20" and is a unique artwork. Note the artist's vocabulary present here – the young girl in early 20th century clothes holding the chewed biscuit; on poles either side of her what looks like a wolf in top hat, and a queen with crown. The wolf and queen are dimensional though appear as garish silhouettes – setting up a duality, a dream, a magic spell... Tony Geiger has said his paintings take you to a certain place, but you have to find your own way back. The world he creates encompasses both classical surrealism and more contemporary concerns. Conflict is usually present. These mischievous juxtapositions make statements on the human condition – either politically, physically or spiritually. Geiger wants the viewer to be challenged and amused by this mixture of the macabre and the playful. A graduate of the School of Visual Arts, New York and a longtime NYC resident, Tony Geiger still considers himself a transplanted Californian. He has exhibited paintings at the Sideshow Gallery in Williamsburg, the Barbican Centre in London, England, Miami Projects at Art Basel, Ceres Gallery in Chelsea, NYC, and he was accepted into The Drawing Center’s Viewing Program. Tony Geiger lives in Carroll...

TOUR (GIANT) is a new oil on canvas surrealist painting by Brooklyn, New York artist Tony Geiger. It measures 50x40" and is a unique artwork. A classic Gei...

"CHILDREN OF THE SUN", 2019, is an oil painting on canvas by artist Tslil Tsemet, and measures 47x62". Characteristic of the artist's best work, it features a group of four contemporary strong-man heads of state portrayed in a child's garden of dangerous toys – from plastic ray-guns to nuclear warheads. Putin, barechested on his black unicorn, is blowing bubbles that float throughout this fascist paradise. Trump and Netanyahu appear at the end of a rainbow looking both grumpy and sinister. And Kim Jong...

"EYE CHECK, 2008, is a surrealist oil painting on canvas by artist Tslil Tsemet, and measures 66x47". At once vulnerable and defiant – a nude woman sits u...