"Beauty" and "Breast" at Young Blood Gallery- Atlanta, GA.

My Magazine Project

No matter how much luxurious clothing we put on, we still cannot hide their true faces. After excavating their true parts beneath the flesh, we will reconstruct another pretty and messy paradise.” - YI-HSIN TZENG

YI-HSIN TZENG

This show presents several large-scale paintings based on Tzeng’s recent transformed image series titled, The Big Breast Calendar published by Taschen Diary (2009). The work contains nude females showing their giant breasts with affected gestures covered in part by painting patterns and strokes. Popular iconography, defaced and altered, brings questions of sexuality and the grotesque into sharp focus.

Tzeng collects large amounts of international commercial images from her daily visual environment. The action of altering and appropriating not only establishes her regurgitated aesthetics but also proclaims a regained control of the image. Please visit the online store of the artist for further inquiry:

http://www.blurb.com/user/yihsintzeng

Yi-Hsin Tzeng defaces selected images with playful mark-making, and then has an ongoing commitment to a series of publishing projects - a new edition of the magazine is available every two months. In this show, viewers can appreciate the original pages and the final transformed product at the same time.

Young Blood Gallery 636 N. Highland Ave. Atlanta, GA | 30306

Hours: Sun-Thurs 12-8 | Fri-Sat 12-9 | T. 678. 793. 57

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2009 Summer in NYC

I Miss You, New York City!


Roxy Paine's show in MET


A master piece in Subway


Dedria and my shoes in the park....with George Segal's work


One group show in Washington DC, http://irvinecontemporary.com/index.php


Opening view at night...

October in Chelsea

There are too many shows going on, so I only pick up my favorite artists.
First, This is Arturo Herrera.


I like the smell of flesh. This is Berlinde De Bruyckere.
His gallery: http://www.yvon-lambert.com/main.php?EXPO=newyork





This is Sue Williams. I am crazy for "lines," so I like these paintings.

If you have interest, you can google them or check their galleries.

Chris Johanson in Dietch

Personally I like this gallery.

Secondly, I like this artist. Before I check the show, I didn't know anything about him.



His style is a little "naive," outside the art world.
I like the way he presents his work...very constructive and special...
I feel like I am in a site for religious ceremony. It is a secret religion, maybe illegal.
After they left, viewers enjoy the proof of their existence.

Besides, he has a good sense on color.

Here is the gallery.

http://www.deitch.com/artists/sub.php?artistId=6

Here is more images about his show.

http://www.kavigupta.com/artists/johanson/cj_images.html

Chelsea's September 02-James Cohan Gallery

http://www.jamescohan.com/ This month James Cohan Gallery opens fall season with three sperate exhibitions: Xu Zhen, Folkert de Jong, and Martha Colburn.

Among them, I like the first two works.

In the front gallery, Chinese conceptualist Xu Zhen transforms the gallery into a replica of a Shanghai convenience store. I saw this "fake" store in Art Basel Miami Beach, 2007. Actually, I saw these kind of store everywhere, when I was in Asia. The only difference is the brand of product and the contents--there is no real food inside. You can buy anything you want, but only form, no content.

The other one is Dutch sculptor--Folkert de Jong. He uses all kinds of industrial materials to construct his "funny" world. This piece references Goya's famous 1814 painting, El tres de mayo de 1808 en Madrid. They are so large and near that viewers can witness their "ridiculousness" in person.

Chelsea's September 01-Vik Muniz

Since we have so many shows at the same time, I cannot finish each of them.Therefore, I just pick up several exhibitions, which I still have impression...right now.

First, it's "verso," Vik Muniz's solo show in SIKKEMA Jenkins & Co. gallery. http://www.sikkemajenkinsco.com/index.html

After walking into the gallery, you will be stunned by the way he presents his works. At beginning, viewers think that he takes all master piece from famous museums, including MoMa, Mets, Guggenheim..., and then show their back side and lean on the wall. I really really...want to turn these paintings and check if "Van Gogh" is here. After checking the catalog, we finally figure out "everything is fake." The artist spent a lot of time copying and mimicing these historical marks.

Dia: Beacon

Dia: Beacon....the Excellent Space for Art Work



The entrance...



Robert Irwin... designs this garden piece for Dia.




Lim Knoebel's colorful paintings....are super suitable for this bright and high space~



My reflection and...the main gallery is just behind the door.


You cannot take any pictures inside...><, so I found some images from Internet.

Richard Serra....

There are fore big "cylinders" sitting in the space. Only one gap lets andience walk in. It provides another special experience toward space. Accompanying with the movement of viewers, we can watch the skylilne, hear the unknown sound, observe the texture of steel and feel the pushing power from artwork.

You can see more from MoMa: http://moma.org/exhibitions/2007/serra/flash.html

My favorite-Sol LeWitt~

Instead of calling him an artist, maybe I should call him a mathematician, programer or a scientist.

Dia is a very good place for visiting. If you have any chance, just stop by...7 dollars for students.
If you want to know more about Dia and its collections, please check here: Dia: Beacon http://www.diabeacon.org/