ARTISTS OF THE MONTH – May 2023
Che Min Hsiao, New York, USA
Che Min Hsiao, New York, USA
Che Min Hsiao is a visual artist based in Queens, New York.
He received a BFA and MFA from the School of Visual Arts and has taken part in residencies at the Kingsbrae International Residence for the Arts in Canada, SU-CASA Residency in New York, and the Cuttyhunk Island Artist Residency in Massachusetts, and received grants from ArtSite Public Art Commission and the New Work Grant from Queens Arts Fund in Queens, New York. He was a fellow at the ARTWorks, Inc. program supported by the Jerome Foundation at the Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning, and participated in the 2016 Immigrant Artist Program at the New York Foundation for the Arts.
Hsaio’s work has been exhibited at various venues including the Walter Wickiser Gallery, SFA Projects, Queens Botanical Garden, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York Hall of Science, Abrons Arts Center, Local Project Art Space, Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, Taipei Cultural Center, Maggi Peyton Gallery, Society of Illustrators Gallery, and Gallery Nucleus in the United States, and LiTE-HAUS Galerie and Direktorenhaus Gallery in Berlin, Germany.
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Chih Chui Chuang, Taiwan
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Bio for Chih Chui Chuang Born in Penhu, living and working in HsinChu, Taiwan, Chuang graduated from the Department of Visual Communication, Xuanzang University. He has been a full-time artist for 30 years. Chuang not only has had extraordinary achievements in the art of graphic painting, but also has a rich and varied expression in the use of color. Through gradual blending and smearing, the saturation of the color is reduced, which makes the picture surface moister and allows subtle changes, sometimes romantic adventures, and sometimes calm and detached emotions. In recent years, he has explored the relationship between the external world and the inner mind. To do so, he refers to nature and stars, the mountains and rivers, concepts from space to time, the vortex and derived images. These have greatly enriched the symbolism of his work.
Chih Chui Chuang artist statement Inside Symbiosis, a metal fork has been embedded so that the whole resembles a human head. The top of the sculpture undulates to give a flying bird, its wings made of silver foil. The bird and human become one creature in this sculpture, where form and material are correlated and fuse to give rise to meaning.
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Anne Michaux
Anne Michaux is originally from Luxembourg and has been living in Berlin since 2000. She mainly works with staged macro photography, expressing herself in visual narratives and visual (and other) poetry. She is interested in future scenarios, the interaction we have with the natural world, the collective and individual unconscious, the hidden, our deep existential fears, our universal dreams, hopes and the dread of the knowledge of a finite life in an infinite universe… … In her visual work she tries to give expression to those “felt thoughts” that are hard to verbalise … She used to present her photography as large scale, sewn together paper works, but has been reconsidering her approaches to her work and her methods recently. In her search for better representations of what she wants to express she has begun working with AI and will explore this with her own photographic work as well as with her written poetry.
Video / Film
Yorick Niess, Germany, screenwriter and film producer
https://www.instagram.com/der_weltensegler/?hl=de
New life Earth is the plane
-> B.A., Politics and Administration
Yorick Niess, Germany, screenwriter and film producer
Film-TV Producer Yorick Niess. Based in Freiburg i. Br. Germany. As a media producer Yorick started to produce movies at the age of 12. Since 1994 he professionally worked as a journalist, TV-producer and Editor on around 10.000 broadcast Features. In 2002 he became a Training Supervisor IHK for the profession digital media designer. He has worked on several international documentaries about the Middle East, Africa and Tibet. As a Master of International Negotiation and Policy-Making INP, Geneva 2010, he seeks to improve biodiversity and social matters on a daily basis.
-> Master INP, International Negotiation and Policy-making