MEI XIAN QIU

EARLY SPRING

Curated by Phil Tarley at ARTIST’S CORNER,
a new contemporary photography gallery in Hollywood.

Hollywood, CA — EARLY SPRING opens Friday September 21 st and continues through Sunday, October 21, 2012. The opening night reception for the artist starts at 7pm.

EARLY SPRING features four new works and a selection of her most iconic and favorite pieces – all of which are printed on a plexiglass. The show’s catalog, its front and back covers also printed on plexiglass, is signed and numbered in an edition of 100 and will be available for sale as EARLY SPRING’S opening night special.

Visually and intellectually sophisticated, Mei Xian Qiu’s colorful artworks have strong currents of political, sexual and racial subtext. All the while, this whimsical artist infuses her photography with a campy cleverness and a painterly, highly cultivated eye — swirled together in a delightful melange of post-modern sensability. Mei Xian Qiu is a Los Angeles artist working in a totally new cultural paradigm.

Mei was born in the town of Pekalongan, on the island of Java, Indonesia, to a third generation Chinese minority family. She has lived all over Europe, is based in Los Angeles and makes frequent trips back to China. “I feel 100% Chinese Indonesian, and 100% American. I am a part of a kind of floating culture. My sense of individual identity becomes linked to something ever shifting and transient.”

The Los Angeles Art Association has taken Mei Xian Qui’s work to Photo LA and to Art Basel in Switzerland, facilitating sold out shows. Artist Corner’s curator, Phil Tarley, also a member of LAAA, has watched Mei Xian Qiu’s stratospheric rise as an internationally acclaimed Los Angeles artist.

Phil Tarley is a Fellow of the American Film Institute and an artist member of the Los Angeles Art Association. As an art and pop culture critic he regularly posts stories on the Wow Report; writes about art and photography for Fabrik Magazine; contributes to Art Week LA and is a juror on the Lark International Art Competition. He has recently been appointed to a City of West Hollywood task force on Public Art Installation. With his partner Carlos Benitez, Tarley opened Artist’s Corner, Hollywood’s newest contemporary photography gallery.

EARLY SPRING at ARTIST’S CORNER
6585 Santa Monica Boulevard, Hollywood, CA 90038
A bright red building on the corner of Seward Street. Telephone: (323) 464-3900

Gallery Hours: Monday – Friday 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday and Sunday by appointment.

Visit the gallery’s website at: http://bookblocks.us/ArtistsCornerGallery.html

Read Fabrik’s MEI XIAN QIU Cover Story, written by Phil Tarley now by clicking on this link.