Category: Art
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Marc Standing’s Abstractions Question African Identity
Marc Standing’s paintings involve layers of meaning; in contemplation, empathy, catharsis and the elevation of the spirit. The abstract values of art, proportion, balance, colour, tone, and the management and exploitation of pictorial space, are of the utmost value to his work whether in a non-figurative sense or as supports for figures in an implied…
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Twenty-first Century Chinese Art
The increasing complexity and speed of contemporary technology is the cause of both euphoria and anxiety. In the world of contemporary art, a term was coined – new media art – that was used to describe the sophisticated new technologies that had become available to artists since the late 1980s, and which enabled the digital…
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Never Standing Still
“As a painter it is important to push my practice and I will discover something new in every current body of work, which will filter into new paintings.” Marc Standing’s art is rooted in the natural world, with influences garnered from his travels around the globe. Now based in the UK, the African artist uses…
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The Extraordinary Machine
Karin Janssen’s works create a world that draws the audience into her universe, with its own rules and logic. Disembodied mouths become portals, gateways to another dimension, seductively embracing the grotesque, the absurd, the animalistic. “Wangechi Mutu said that the more personal her work is, the more universal it becomes. I like that,” muses Janssen…
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Making It in Shanghai: Interview with Redic
“Making It in Shanghai” focuses on people who have found success and made a significant cultural impact in Shanghai. “Steps of courage lead to places of confidence.” – Redic When people talk of “making it” they are usually referring to becoming successful in their chosen discipline. In the world of music and performing success can…
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Transience
“I’ve been here for 10 years and I can’t even recollect that 10 years. I came, I was here for a bit and now I’m ready to go. You can’t really measure it, it happens so quickly.” Alex Carroll is an American artist based in Shanghai. In the build up to his final exhibition in…
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The Language of Art
Jayson Atienza is a Filipino-American artist based in Shanghai. He’s known for his instantly recognisable signature painting style, which he originally developed by combining watercolour and ink. With a background in advertising, Jayson has worked with numerous well-known multinational brands. At heart, though, Jayson Atienza is an artist. In his series, The Language of Art,…
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Modern Ephemeral Duality
Ludo is a French street artist. His work connects the world of plants and animals with our technological universe and quest for modernism. He’s known for only using two colours in his work and using a technique of pasting, mainly in outdoor spaces. He is a very humble, quietly spoken man with a thick Parisian…
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A Conversation Between Science and Art – NYU Shanghai x Lu Yang
On July 24, 2016, NYU Shanghai Art Gallery and the Computational and Cognitive Neuroscience (CCN) Summer School co-organized A Conversation Between Science and Art. New media artist Lu Yang shared her work with students from around the world and world-class neuroscientists from institutions such as NYU, Stanford, Yale, MIT and Google DeepMind. The presentation focused on Delusional…
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Eating the City: An Unusual Installation by Artist Song Dong
On Sunday, August 28th Song Dong and students from NYU Shanghai welcomed guests to the opening of the Beijing artist’s Eating The City exhibition in Shanghai, an event that was co-organised by NYU Shanghai Art Gallery. Eating the City is an installation that resembles a scale model of a city, but instead of being constructed…
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