Walking in the Cosmos: Artists interpreting Urban Reverence at Voelker Orth Museum

"We are slowed down sound and light waves, a walking bundle of frequencies tuned into the cosmos. We are souls dressed up in sacred biochemical garments and our bodies are the instruments through which our souls play their music."

Cosmos flowers, native to Mexico and appropriated for their gardens by Spanish missionaries, represent order and harmony in nature (that ideal of Greek philosophy), as well as tranquility, peace, innocence, and love.

Date: October 30 to December 18, 2022

Venue: Voelker Orth Museum

Address: 149-19 38th Avenue, Flushing, NY 11354 (directions: https://goo.gl/maps/dXk86CEdJnrddRQY7)

Opening Reception: Sunday October 30, 2-4pm

*2:30-2:45pm: visual art performance by Julia Hsia

*3:00-3:30pm: musical performance (Violin, Piano) by Pei-Wen Liao

TAAC Recognition-Taiwanese American Artist

TAAC Recognition exhibition is formed by artists who support the launch of TAAC, the Taiwanese American Arts Council. The work is bidirectional – it enables and embodies interaction between Taiwanese American artists and their community. We also peer through a small aperture to see a spectacular world. We celebrate recognition, admiration, and support of the Taiwanese American art community from the Taiwanese community and seek the broader world’s understanding of Taiwanese American artists.

This exhibit combines different generations of expatriate artists - old and the new settlers – which adapted to various aspects to the new culture. The correspondence is also extended to artists in Taiwan rooted in their native land. Different geopolitical periods display both differences and commonalities in creativity.

To observe the moving flow of Taiwanese American Artist, return to the 80s in New York's Soho art district where the first generation of overseas artists settled; they were quite active within the larger western artist circle, and they created a splendid historical moment. The second wave of artists from Taiwan in the 90s faced a changing, confusing insecure world of economic and immigration difficulties. Artists based in the United States find themselves awash not only in the conflict between eastern and western, but also in the cultural whirlpool that is urban America. A metropolitan life – especially in New York - famously requires toughness and resiliency; at the same time metropolitan artists absorb multicultural influences to enrich their inherited outlook. For artists of the last ten years or new students, geo-focused fixed residence in the United States is not mandatory, and the use of new media is indispensable; their work is more diverse and more challenging.

Of the selected artists living in Taiwan, some are bound to the land on which they stand, and thus to consequent norms of culture, custom, and folk traditions; and this can be seen in the subjects which they choose. For example, eating is still an important component of a very recently rural society. In this exhibition, most art works from Taiwan are silkscreen prints, because of the passion and call of the pioneer ofTaiwan modern print making.

Because of limitations in space, not all of the works from Taiwan are on display, but the catalog lists all participating works. In addition, the exhibition only represents and cannot cover all Taiwanese-American artists, but TAAC has planned for the future a platform to promote and assist the development of the arts in Taiwan and the U.S.

Luchia Meihua Lee

Executive Diretor, TAAC

Walking in the Cosmos: Artist Interpreting Urban Reverence

Sunday, October 30, 2022 2:00 PM 14:00
Sunday, December 18, 2022 5:00 PM 17:00

Voelker Orth Museum 135-149 38th Avenue Flushing, NY, 11354 United States (map)

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Date: October 30 to December 18, 2022

Venue: Voelker Orth Museum

Address: 149-19 38th Avenue, Flushing, NY 11354

(directions: https://goo.gl/maps/dXk86CEdJnrddRQY7)

Opening Reception: Sunday October 30, 2-4pm

*2:30-2:45pm: visual art performance by Julia Hsia

*3:00-3:30pm: musical performance (Violin, Piano) by Pei-Wen Liao

Analyzed historically in the context of the planet, the phenomenon of urban tribes involves the survival of human beings and maintenance of balance among various living things. The discourse thus moves to valuing human nature, preserving multiple cultures, renewing the environment, and honoring the new multi-faceted unity. Myths of universe operation have been recently and swiftly contorted by urban displacement. In pastoral settings, the passage of nature’s simple diurnal imagery held rich mythologies of our environment to be reverenced. Art creators are able to mediate and textualize new connections to culture and most particularly its antecedents. In this Thanksgiving season, we invite you to range over the Victoria Garden, bird sanctuary, and Voelker Orth museum, mindful of the words above and the significance of cosmos flowers.

Curator Luchia Meihua Lee

Tentative participating artists-(20 artists)

Steven Balogh (1-2paining, piano room)
Eun Young Choi (window -Reading room)
Chih Chui Chuang (2 small wood carve sculpture, dining room)

4. Kotaro Fukui (Ostrich painting, Dining room)

Felipe Galindo (vinyl, outdoor fence or backyard corridor)
Sarah Haviland (bird sculptures, and print, Dining room + one sculpture chair)
Diana Heise (video, Reading room, loop with Rosalía Mowgli video)
Julia Hsia (performance-Piano Room)
Chemin Hsiao (4 illustrations, Dining room)
Hiroshi Jashiki (silk tea screen, Dining room round table)
Mingjer Kuo (one print, Dining room)
Catherine Lan (video, Dining Room)
Rosalía Mowgli (video, Reading room, loop with Diana Heise video)
Hsuan-Yu Pan ( I, puppet, a short film. dining room 27” monitor)
Jennifer Pliego (2 or 4 hanging plant pieces, Dining room)
Marlene Tseng Yu (1 painting, Piano Room)
Sarah Walko (site specific cabinet installation, Dining room)
Yeh Fang (paintings, video, piano room)

19. +20. Musical Performance - Pei-Wen Liao (violin) piano: Yadi Liang (piano)

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