From Island to Island

May 5th to October 30, 2023 at #7B,

Nolan Park, Governors Island, NYC

Curator: Luchia Meihua Lee, TAAC

This project through multiple channels will focus on the concept of “island” as interpreted through the work of artists connected to islands in a variety of ways and from a variety of backgrounds.

Whereas one initial reaction to living on an island is to cultivate an individual, isolated, closed persona, further events might lead to a tendency to seek a connection - a coalescence of similarly-situated individuals - or to react by moving or immigrating to search for connections, groups, or communities.

This is how a tribal community can start to form in a new land, and social subjectivity might take shape. Consequently, From Island to Island will look at the flowing, moving, transport, and immigration of peoples, and the route of travel and voyage that connects island to island.

Within this main theme of From Island to Island, artists connected to Taiwan will be asked to consider similarities and differences between Governors Island and Taiwan as an island, and in particular Taiwan’s Green Island. [Green Island is a small island about 20 miles off the eastern coast of Taiwan. It is the site of a prison formerly used to incarcerate political prisoners after WWII when Chiang Kai-Shek was President of Taiwan.

The artists will draw directly on the historical background of Governors Island or turn Governors Island’s topography to a three dimensional mapping installation, or create video pieces that employ storytelling or photography to take the site of the people, land and life of the island. All this can be documented or animated.

From Island to Island is conceived in two complementary aspects. First, there will be a core group of artists selected for an artist residency program on Governors Island, staffing the house from May to October, creating site-specific art, and maintaining studios there.

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2023 New Years Greeting to all friends

Dear Friends, Thank you for your support in the past, and TAAC is appreciative of your continuing support. We are glad and grateful that we could work with many very talented artists this year. In 2022, we orchestrated thematic people-centered (Urban Caravan) and land/environmental (Urban Reverence/Divergence) projects in three exhibitions -Urban Tribes series II and III - with multiple conjunction programs: at Brooklyn's Pfizer building, at the IW gallery and at the Valerie Goodman Gallery in Manhattan. Also we are happy to have supported performance artist Chin-Chih Yang for his induction into NYFA's Hall of Fame. To benefit artists and the community, we arranged at the Voelker Orth Museum "Walking in the Cosmos: Artists interpreting Urban Reverence" with artist talks, a workshop, a panel discussion, and special tours for young people and community groups. TAAC was also able to support some individual artists and provide a platform to promote others. Look for the 2023 cross-disciplinary "NYC Art Bridge" program in which psychiatrists and professional artists will help us promote mental wellness. We are also glad to pre-announce that TAAC will be participating in the organizational residency at Governors Island with a multiethnic residency and various open houses and exhibition programs.

2022

Walking in the Cosmos

Voelker Orth Museum ( , Brooklyn, NY 11206

Exhibition dates: June 10 through July 23, 2022
performance: June 10, 2022
Panel discussion and artist talk: July 16, 2022
workshop and group tour: July 21, 2022

Urban Reverence to Divergence

Exhibition venue 1: the old Pfizer building (1st Fl.-IW gallery, 5th Fl.-Double Height room) 630 Flushing Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11206

Exhibition dates: June 10 through July 23, 2022
performance: June 10, 2022
Panel discussion and artist talk: July 16, 2022
workshop and group tour: July 21, 2022

open hours: Wednesday to Saturday noon - 6pm Exhibition

https://youtu.be/777-wLQQR_M (5:30minutes)

all Three venues video glimps: (Pfizer building +Valerie Goodman gallery)

https://youtu.be/QDwq5eJyxRo (10 minutes)

Pfizer 5th Floor: (3 mins) https://youtu.be/Q43UTI3zDZU

Pfizer IW gallery: (3mins) https://youtu.be/EKrEfbmSiEk

venue 2: Valerie Goodman Gallery

exhibition dates: June 24 through July 23, 2022

group tour: July 21, 2022

Valerie Goodman Gallery 315 East 91st Street, 1st floor, New York, NY 10128

Gallery hours: Monday to Friday 10:30am-5pm & by appointment

Video glimps

Valerie Goodman gallery

Youtube: https://youtu.be/xXur0e5e44w (3:14 minutes)

Vemeo:VG-Urban Reverence to Divergence-Venue 2 on Vimeo

https://vimeo.com/728415545 (3:14 minutes)

Rethinking culture and art history, the relationship between humans, land, and the myth of universe operation has been recently and swiftly transformed into a chaotic hymn or hysterical tone. In the passage of simple diurnal imagery, nature held rich mythologies of our environment to be reverenced. Divergence from a perceived golden age to a crisis age in society and politics has impacted genres in culture and art. The centrifugal tendency in the transition from the rural village to the urban is the loss of cultural rituals and myths, the need to adapt to the new language and the loss of innocence. Art creators are able to mediate and textualize new connections to the threat to culture and most particularly its antecedents. The series of Urban Tribes projects started in 2018 to examine from an art perspective the phenomenon of migrants forming an international cross-cultural "urban tribe" – one of the genres at the turn of the 21st century. The discourse thus moves to valuing human nature, preserving multiple cultures, renewing the environment, and honoring the new multi-faceted unity. Potential political, economic, and cultural crises can be averted only by an emphasis on the diversity of life that promotes interactive relationships. Artists in this contemporary expression might inscribe the ambivalences and complexities of existential agon, of voice, of the affective root, or cultural difference. They might even suggest in critique or acknowledgement a mockery, a type of self-reflexive awareness. Curatorial team: Luchia Meihua Lee co-curators: Jennifer Pliego, Sarah Walko

Participating artists: 1. Herberto Turizzo Anaya 2. Stephanie Cheung 3. Chih Hui Chuang 4. Dennis RedMoon Darkeem 5. Felipe Galindo 6. Sarah Haviland 7. Diana Heise 8. Hsiao Chu Hsia 9. Hiroshi Jashiki 10. Mingjer Kuo 11. Catherine Lan 12. Lee Wei 13. Lin Shih-Pao 14. Eleng Luluen 15. j. maya luz 16. Walis LaBai (Diing-Wuu Wu) 17. Sarah Walko 18. Wu Chien-Hsing 19. Yeh Fang 20. Rosalía Mowgli  Exhibition dates: June 10 through July 23, 2022  Exhibition venues 1: 1st Floor, IW Art Gallery 5th Floor, old Pfizer building, 630 Flushing Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11206  Satellite exhibition 2: • Exhibition dates: June 24 through July 23, 2022 • Exhibition venue: Valerie Goodman gallery, 315 E 91st St, New York, NY 10128

2019 Urban Tribes -I

The artwork was chosen by the curatorial team of Luchia Meihua Lee (Taiwanese American Arts Council), Fangling Tseng (Kaohsiung Museum), Faustino Quintanilla (QCC Art Gallery), and Amy Winter (GTM). This collaborative project will be on display at three sites: the Godwin-Ternbach Museum; the Queensborough Community College Art Gallery in Queens; and El Museo de Los Sures in Brooklyn, with a total of 24 Taiwanese and New York-based artists.

TAAC Tribeca
El taller Latino Americano
New York Foundation for the Arts

2017

Rewoven: Innovative Fiber Art

Rewoven Part I Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Queens College, CUNY [http://www.gtmuseum.org/]

405 Klapper Hall, 65-30 Kissena Boulevard, Flushing, NY 11367

April 6, 2017 – May 26, 2017 Participating 10 Artists: Taiwan: Chen Ching-Lin 陳景林, Hsu Wei-Hui 徐薇蕙, Teresa Huang 黃麗絹, Huang Mei-Hui 黃美惠, Huang Wen-Ying 黃文英, Pan Ping-Yu 潘娉玉, Wu Pei-Shan 吳佩珊, Wu Yun-Feng 巫雲鳳, Yang Wei-Lin 楊偉林，Wen-Fu Yu 游文富。

Part II of Rewoven features 10 Taiwanese artists: Chen Ching-Lin, Hsu Wei-Hui, Huang Mei-Hui, Teresa Huang, Huang Wen-Ying, Pan Ping-Yu, Wu Pei-Shan, Wu Yun-Feng, Yang Wei-Lin, and Wen-Fu Yu.

Rewoven-Part II QCC Art Gallery and Museum/CUNY

March 30, 2017 - June 17, 2017 [http://www.qcc.cuny.edu/ArtGallery]

REWOVEN: Innovative Fiber Art QCC Art Gallery/CUNY March 16 - June 17, 2017 Participating 20 Artists: Taiwan: Chen Ching-Lin 陳景林, Chuang Hui-Lin 莊惠琳, Eleng Luluan 安聖惠(峨冷), Teresa Huang 黃麗絹, Huang Wen-Ying 黃文英, Huang Yen-Chao 黃彥超, Huang Yu-Chih 黃裕智, Wu Wen-Chi 吳汶錡, Yang Wei-Lin 楊偉林，Wen-Fu Yu 游文富。.NY； Steven Balogh, Hiroshi Jashiki (謝敷宏), Ming Jer Kuo (郭明哲), Catherine Lan (藍巧茹), Lulu Meng (孟祥璐), John Ensor Parker, Sarah Walko , Poyen Wang (王博彥), Chin Chih YANG (楊金池)

https://youtu.be/1zUMv96G-Fs ( 3:53 minutes)

Rewoven-Part III at Los Sure Museum

EL Museo de Los Sures,Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY 120 South 1st Street, Williamsburg, Brooklyn (Between Bedford Avenue and Berry Street) Brooklyn, NY 11249 t: 347-987-4626 April 18 - June 30, 2017

Participating artists: Steven Balogh, Hiroshi Jashiki 謝敷宏, Ming Jer Kuo 郭明哲, Catherine Lan藍巧茹, Lulu Meng 孟祥璐, Poyen Wang 王博彥, Chin Chih Yang 楊金池.

Rewoven celebrates concept and relentlessly confronts the requisites of fiber art. The seven artists in this exhibit all live and work in New York City. They regenerate a parameter of relationship between individual and society, from reviewing the over developed land, symbolically mapping urban public transportation, and exposing endless industrial exhaust hiding under shiny metallic ribbons cut from cans. In Rewoven, the literary or journalistic consideration has been abandoned. Powerful questions adumbrate a melting iceberg indicative of dangerous water crisis, and a sarcastic golf club dialogue with personal history revels in a whirlpool of money windfalls. Recuperating from these disasters, we end up in retreat in a womb-like chair. These views expand connectivity and reach globally. We chafe at the restrictions sometimes reinforced. Curatorial Team: Luchia Meihua Lee, Dr. Faustino Quintanilla, Fangling Tseng, Dr. Amy Winter

2016 Art Benefit Gala/exhibition

Thank you all for attending the TAAC Annual Gala on Thursday September 22nd, and for and supporting TAAC. We hope that you and your guests all enjoyed the night. It was our pleasure to have the chance to celebrate with you. The art works which we displayed in the gala lobby are pictured also in the booklet, and may still be viewed and selected online at taac-us.org online. They will be available until end of the year.

We were pleased to bring together such a vibrant community. We hope you enjoyed meeting both old and new friends. Your donation will be used for art programs to enrich American artistic society. We looking forward to our future collaborations and your support. Browse the website, and visit our pages to view all works to support TAAC. This timed online-only offer contemporary art lets you choose from anywhere and features artist.

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Gala evening celebrates Taiwanese art and culture

By Merle Exit Times Ledger

Posted 10:24 am, October 14, 2016

A wide array of Taiwanese art and culture was recently on display at the Taiwanese American Arts Council’s third annual gala. Held at the Taiwan Center, just across the street from Flushing Town Hall, the gala featured music, dance, food, art and prominent cultural and political figures. The gala was coordinated by Luchia Meihua Lee, TAAC’s executive director.

TAAC has the mission of promoting and publicizing Taiwanese-American art, as well as encouraging dialogue on artistic issues. Established in 2014, the organization supports the Queens Museum Taiwanese Endowment Fund, brings Taiwanese artists to the U.S. to exhibit and perform, and works cooperatively with colleagues around the country to broaden the audience for Taiwanese art and culture.

As guests entered the lobby, they were able to look over the work of 15 artists whose works were up for auction and listen to banjo music performed by Lorin Roser. Attendees were then invited from the lobby to the main room, where the gala’s co-chairs, Dr. Lung Fong Chen, Thomas Chen and community leader Patrick Huang, delivered the opening speeches.

“So much has happened in the last three years,” said Chen. “with everybody’s friendship, communication and asking what TAAC is for.” He thanked Commissioner of New York Cultural Affairs Tom Finkelpearl, who was the event’s keynote speaker.

After the speeches, an assortment of Taiwanese dishes were offered to attendees, and entertainment was provided by several performance artists. Music and dance from Joy Chi Wang, Chia Chun Jessica Hu and Claire Chien-Lun Lee focused on Asian women immigrating to the United States. Chi Wang performed modern piano works and played music on several traditional musical instruments.

Former Queens Borough President Claire Shulman and curent Borough President Melinda Katz were two of many local representatives present at the gala. “We are a borough of great culture, of great art,” said Katz. “The council does such a wonderful job in making sure that the artists, who just want to do the artwork of their home country, have a place to go, a place to advocate for them, and a place to learn.”

Featured artists included ChinChin Yang, who displayed a piece called “Pollution Solution,” which was made up of strips of aluminum cans to create a net and backed by LED lights. He writes, “Unfortunately, pollution has become an integral part of our lives. We ourselves are the only ones who may be able to come up with a collective solution to this dilemma.”

Artist Rosalie Yu, whose work seeks to identify and recreate the human connections that are often overlooked in our daily lives, displayed a piece called “Embrace in Progress, #4, Father,” composed of powder and sandstone. Other artists on display included Hung Yi, Eric C. Chiang, Tzu Huan, Tang Wei Hsu and Ming-Jer Kuo.

Among the attendees were Yeou-Cheng Ma, her husband Michael Dadap and artist Zhang Hongtu. Ma, the sister of YoYo Ma, is an accomplished Queens-based violinist. She and her husband run the Children’s Orchestra Society. Hongtu, a pioneer in Contemporary Chinese art, was recently featured at the Queens Museum with his ping- pong table cut out with the head of Chairman Mao Zedong.

TAAC’s Lee shared her reactions to the evening. “I was touched to see many friends from New York art circles that were able to attend. The presence of long-term friend of TAAC Tom Finkelpearl was particularly meaningful to me speaking about one of his favorite themes, diversity in the arts.

“It was delightful to view how the gala’s art work brought a welcome change in the lobby of Taiwan Center, thanks to the dedicated efforts of many people, most of them volunteers,” she said. “The evening was highly successful. I hope TAAC will grow year after year and contribute to our New York art world.”

The artworks which were displayed in the gala lobby are also pictured in a digital booklet that is available at taac-us.org online. They will be available until end of the year.

Photo credit: Sean Wang, Cantherine Lan, Nina Kuo and Luchia Meihua Lee

Highlights include artworks by a Liao Shiou Ping, Boris Kuo, Chinchih Yang, Eric C. Chiang, Catherine Lan, Hai Hsin Huang, Hsianglu Meng, Rosalie Yu, Hsiangling Wang, Poyen Wang, Tang Wei Hsu and others. Explore the full site!

The digital version of booklet of TAAC gala is available upon request.

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TAAC 2016 Art Benefit Gala Sponsorship opportunities 台美文藝協會2016藝術盛宴贊助表

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Additional Opportunities: Contribute to support arts programs or collect art work

□□ Contribute $10,000 to support the annual art program, or to collect art work

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Contribute $10,000

□□ Contribute $8,000 to support the annual art program, or to collect art work

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□□ Contribute $5,000 to support the annual art program, or to collect art work

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□□ Contribute $3,000 to support two selection art programs, or collect art work

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For more information please contact Luchia Meihua Lee (917) 412-2831 luchia.lee@taac.us.org

Additional opportunities: Contribute to support by collect art work below, click the image, and check out. (Selected Art Work will be on view at Taiwan Center on September 22nd, 2016)

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Artist: HsiangLu Meng 孟祥璐

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Untitled, drawing practice inspired by installation, Fit

Ink on paper

14 x 10 inch

2014

This drawing is inspired by one of the artist’s own installation, Fit.

Fit is an installation consisting six custom-made white shirts, each differs in fabric and style. A pliable body shape is formed when each shirt is hung on a cage-like hanger made of sixteen wires. It expresses the idea of the difference and similarity between people and implies the identity of the individual is shaped and resembled by the social and cultural customs.

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From Island to Island

May 5th to October 30, 2023 at #7B,

Nolan Park, Governors Island, NYC

Curator: Luchia Meihua Lee, TAAC

This project through multiple channels will focus on the concept of “island” as interpreted through the work of artists connected to islands in a variety of ways and from a variety of backgrounds.

This is how a tribal community can start to form in a new land, and social subjectivity might take shape. Consequently, From Island to Island will look at the flowing, moving, transport, and immigration of peoples, and the route of travel and voyage that connects island to island.

From Island to Island is conceived in two complementary aspects. First, there will be a core group of artists selected for an artist residency program on Governors Island, staffing the house from May to October, creating site-specific art, and maintaining studios there.

2022

Walking in the Cosmos

Voelker Orth Museum ( , Brooklyn, NY 11206

Urban Reverence to Divergence

Exhibition venue 1: the old Pfizer building (1st Fl.-IW gallery, 5th Fl.-Double Height room) 630 Flushing Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11206

venue 2: Valerie Goodman Gallery

2019 Urban Tribes -I

TAAC Tribeca

El taller Latino Americano

New York Foundation for the Arts

2017

Rewoven: Innovative Fiber Art

Rewoven Part I Godwin-Ternbach Museum, Queens College, CUNY [http://www.gtmuseum.org/]

405 Klapper Hall, 65-30 Kissena Boulevard, Flushing, NY 11367

Rewoven-Part II QCC Art Gallery and Museum/CUNY

Rewoven-Part III at Los Sure Museum

2016 Art Benefit Gala/exhibition

Gala evening celebrates Taiwanese art and culture

Posted 10:24 am, October 14, 2016

“So much has happened in the last three years,” said Chen. “with everybody’s friendship, communication and asking what TAAC is for.” He thanked Commissioner of New York Cultural Affairs Tom Finkelpearl, who was the event’s keynote speaker.

TAAC’s Lee shared her reactions to the evening. “I was touched to see many friends from New York art circles that were able to attend. The presence of long-term friend of TAAC Tom Finkelpearl was particularly meaningful to me speaking about one of his favorite themes, diversity in the arts.

The artworks which were displayed in the gala lobby are also pictured in a digital booklet that is available at taac-us.org online. They will be available until end of the year.

Photo credit: Sean Wang, Cantherine Lan, Nina Kuo and Luchia Meihua Lee

The digital version of booklet of TAAC gala is available upon request.

TAAC 2016 Art Benefit Gala Sponsorship opportunities 台美文藝協會2016藝術盛宴贊助表

Tickets 贊助項目

Additional Opportunities: Contribute to support arts programs or collect art work

Additional opportunities: Contribute to support by collect art work below, click the image, and check out. (Selected Art Work will be on view at Taiwan Center on September 22nd, 2016)

Artist: HsiangLu Meng 孟祥璐

Artist: HsiangLu Meng 孟祥璐