展覽提案－Asianity (德瑞克默菲個人展覽)
9-12/10-15, 201o. CTS Modern Art Foundation

“Asianity” will be a display of Taiwan and Asia-specific contemporary oil paintings focusing on cultural identity, national narratives, and contradictions between modern and traditional ideologies. “Asianity”, on the one hand, sounds like a religion or belief system – perhaps implying the acceptance and proliferation of Christianity into Asia. On [...]

I’m back at school (4th year Masters) taking a very light load. In 3 weeks I have an exhibition at 102 gallery in Tainan. I’m mostly working on cleaning up/improving some of the paintings I did for the last exhibition that I may have rushed, however I’ve also got two new ones in the works:

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Today I gave a speech and a slideshow for my opening. I was amazed that the students  – at least all the ones who asked questions – could speak English well and had very intelligent questions and comments. Tammy did a fantastic job translating. I got an interview with a local newspaper. All and all, [...]

It’s up! Giving a speech at the official opening tomorrow.

I’m excited about this new painting…. with the red Taiwan door knockers. The model is my friend Kei. The ‘fortune cookie’ one is also going to be a favorite.
I’m feeling like the other one, with the three girls chasing after the nerdy white guy instead of the cool, handsome Asian, is kind of an inside [...]

The big news this year is that I have an exhibition to prepare for. A few months back I organized a semi-decent if unprofessional package, including my artist bio, statement, exhibition history and pics. After sending to a few galleries, I got a call back from NCKU (my university). They have an enormous new gallery [...]

Saturday Funky and I took the train to ChiaYi, for an art exhibition. It was well-organized and the location, an old distillery, was fantastic. Unfortunately, my six framed prints looked tiny on the enormous walls. I’d been unable to finish anything new in time. The other artists were mostly foreigners in Taiwan, and so the [...]