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Art Spot at Art Basel Miami — 12. 2012
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Art Basel Miami — Ping Pong Projectraum
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art fair / gallery shots
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ZOOM Winter Issue 2012
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Living etc. (U.K.)
(above the fireplace)
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yosune george design blog/ http://www.fromyosunewithlove.com/2012/home-decor/mei-xain-qius-work-of-art/
Nov2012
On Saturday I was walking through an Art Opening in Los Angeles when I ran into Mei Xian’s work. At first the bright colors and the big canvases are what caught my attention and suddenly I was hooked. Her work is full of irony, meaning and poetry. Mei was born in Java, Indonesia from Chinese parents, they migrated to California when she was very young spending her life between the US and China as a parental attempt to not being westernized. You can see her life in her juxtaposed work of photography, glass and illustration. Beautifully displayed against the light making all the layers and colors come to life. Her work not surprisingly ended up in the pages of Living ETC, UK for the May issue. I really enjoyed meeting Mei; she was warm and eager to explain her work to me and eager to know about other people’s juxtaposed lives as well. Enjoy!
Photos via: Mei Xian Qiu
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L E N S C R A T C H / Saturday, October 23, 2010
Mei Xian Qiu
Los Angeles photographer, Mei Xian Qiu, mixes her identities and influences in her new exhibition, Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom, opening at Gallery 825 in Los Angeles on October 16 and running through November 12th.
“Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom,” is a series of photographs exploring anxieties of power and globalism, national and intercultural identity, and the notion of non self-constructed and deconstructed individualism. The photographs present a sweet conceit of romance and violence. The subjects’ posture and expression remain sentimental, vulnerable and unformed, yet there is a hidden danger signaled by their military uniforms and the environment.
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The models for the imagery are Pan Asian Americans who could be perceived as Chinese, artists, and academics specializing in Chinese studies. The costumes are taken from a Beijing photography studio that specializes in “get ups” for foreign tourists to re-enact Cultural Revolution Propaganda imagery.
A Kafkaesque tongue and cheek frolic of the takeover of the United States of America, “Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom,” takes its cues and title directly and indirectly from classic Chinese poetry, the Cultural Revolution Maoist movement, and Anselm Keifer’s series of paintings of the same name. It refers to the popular Western mistranslation of the Chinese poem “Let a Hundred Flowers Bloom, Let a Hundred Schools of Thought Contend (????, ????).” Echoing Kiefer’s earlier portrayals of himself in sieg Heil salute to come to terms with his country’s brutal Nazi past, Kiefer’s “Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom” showed Mao Zedong in the Chinese salute.
Mao used this poem to encourage a variety of views in the “arts and sciences,” and begin the Hundred Flowers Movement. He proclaimed that in a great society the arts, academia, and “a hundred schools of thought contend.” As a result, artists and academics came out of hiding and there was a brief flowering of culture before they were hunted down and destroyed.
ART PLATFORM — LOS ANGELES
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Solo Show. 9.21.2012 to 10.21.2012
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EARLY SPRINGCurated by Phil Tarley at ARTIST’S CORNER, |
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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 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. |
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Tarfest 2012
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2012 TARFEST SCHEDULE:
Thursday, September 20, 6 – 10pm Saturday, September 22, 2 – 9pm |
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LAUNCH LA presents the TARFEST 10 Year Anniversary Art Exhibition 2003-2012. The retrospective exhibition is curated by Holly Harrison the Curatorial Administrator for Contemporary Art at LACMA and will feature art from 35 of the 225 artists from the past nine years of TARFEST Juried Exhibitions.
The work will include sculpture, installation, painting, drawing, photography and video by the following artists: |
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| Leslie Awender Lisa Bartleson Kevin Bernstein Richard Bruland Todd Carpenter York Chang Hollis Cooper Jennifer Faist Steven Fujimoto Libby Gerber Michael Giancristiano Tm Gratkowski |
Jenny Hager Steve Hampton Stephanie Han Brad Howe Michele Jaquis Flora Kao Rebecca Lowry Jason Macaya Arlene Mead Janet Milhomme Andy Moses Hung Viet Ngyuen |
Jorge Oswaldo Antonio Pelayo Christina Pierson Mei Xian Qiu Bryan Ricci Katherine Rohrbacher Natasa Prosenc Stearns Gina Stepaniuk Sayon Syprasoeuth Meeson Pae Yang Penny Young |
| Previous jurors include Nancy Myers, Edward Robinson, Rita Gonzalez, Howard Fox and Michele Urton of LACMA and local arts administrators, writers and gallerists including Peter Mays, Molly Barnes, Laurie Frank, Kathy Gallegos, Peter Frank, Holly Myers, Wesley Jessup, Sinead Finnerty-Pyne, Maryna Hrushetska, Leora Lutz, Shane Guffogg and James Panozzo.
Additionally, 89.9 KCRW and LAUNCH LA present TARFEST Music and Art Festival on Saturday, September 22nd from 2:00 PM until 9:00 PM at the La Brea Tar Pits Park with performances by indie-rock bands Blondfire, Helena, Soft Swells, So Many Wizards, The Steelwells and The Makepeace Brothers. Live painting by artists Greg “Craola” Simkins, Johnny “KMNDZ” Rodriguez, Codak Smith and Van Saro, with featured sculptures by Bertil Petersson, Tom Winter, Mattia Biagi and David O. Johnson. The festivities will also include a Lagunitas Biergarten, a wine bar sponsored by Whole Foods and gourmet food trucks as well as fun social awareness and activities provided by Keep A Breast Foundation, Keep A Breast Non Toxic Revolution, The Pablove Foundation and Hoop It Up Worldwide. |
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| About TARFEST/LAUNCH LA: TARFEST, produced and managed by LAUNCH, provides important performance and exhibition opportunities to some of the regions finest emerging artists, performers, and cultural innovators on the historic Miracle Mile of Los Angeles. LAUNCH is a 501(3)(c) not-for-profit social enterprise that produces, manages and directs events, programs and exhibitions with the purpose of developing artist – audience relationships throughout important Los Angeles communities. Passionate about promoting all contemporary art-forms and their hybrids, LAUNCH recognizes the need for exemplary productions that create important cultural happenings. With the assistance of commercial partners, cultural institutions and like-minded individuals and organizations, LAUNCH strives to engage a broad cross section of Angelenos in cultural events that foster mutual understanding and creative expression. | ||
| For More Information: www.tarfest.com www.facebook.com/ www.launchla.org Press Contact: |
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