A nice little exhibition held in October of 2009. 102 Gallery is a trendy spot in Tainan county.

Today I forced myself to carry out my ‘paint in public’ plan. Theoretically, it’s a great idea: I go somewhere famous and local and paint in public… people crowd around and I give them all my business card. It’s a way for me to get free and easy exposure. However, when I actually arrived at [...]

Someone on my Facebook page commented about my description of some paintings, “When did you become so angry?” The question itself makes me angry, so I suppose I cannot deny that I am angry. I’d like to explore what role anger plays in my painting, and where my anger comes from.
First off – am I [...]

At an exhibit today I had a request for rough, impressionistic of abstract art. A repeat buyer and patron of the gallery mentioned that she and her friends would probably buy something if it were a different style; and since I paint clean, surrealistic figures, the rough abstract impressionism is just about as different as [...]

Tomorrow I’m opening a solo exhibition in Tainan, Taiwan. This year has been a big step forward. I did most of my paintings when I was younger, and then stopped, foolishly, because I didn’t want to paint any more until I started selling the old ones. The folly in that statement is just one of [...]

I found a great resource – it’s the ‘art in Asia’ website (http://www.artinasia.com).
Focusing on 7 majors cities (Honkong, Beijing, Shanghai, Taipei, Tokyo, Seoul, and Singapore), Art in Asia has up to date event listings so you can know which artists are displaying at which galleries, and when.
You can also browse the top contemporary Asian artists [...]

This August I attended “Art Taipei 2009″ (台北國際藝術博覽會), a massive 3 day contemporary art fair featuring established and emerging Asian artists from Taiwan, Japan, Korea and some other Asian countries.
The event was part of our 4 day tour of contemporary Asian (Taiwanese) art and fashion, for the ‘Taiwan’s Best Trip‘ competition.  There were some truly [...]

I’ve recently become a contemporary Asian artist. Although I still use Western themes (especially religious themes and icons) I do so only to the extent that they can be found in Taiwan, interfering or interacting with Taiwanese culture. Moreover, I also use many images from Asian culture and specifically Taiwanese culture; ghost money, temple art, [...]

I was just looking over the artwork featured in a big New York gallery… I’m not impressed. More than that, I’m almost sickened that what passes for art hasn’t changed in the last 10, or even 20, years. “Contemporary Art” should mean what’s new right now. Instead, contemporary art is a vague copy of modern [...]

Apparently, a new study suggests that when humans feel discomfort or panic in the face of a nonsense (something that doesn’t make sense), they automatically refocus their brains on discovering and establishing more patterns; “this same sensation may prime the brain to sense patterns it would otherwise miss — in mathematical equations, in language, in [...]