I’m included in Arario Gallery’s summer show Irrelevant: Local Emerging Asian Artists Who Don’t Make Work About Being Asian. Very excited, it’s my first time in Chelsea. Thanks to Rona Chang who introduced me to the show.

Irrelevant: Local Emerging Asian Artists Who Don’t Make Work About Being Asian

July 1 – August 6th, 2010
Opening Reception July 1st, 6-8pm

Performances & Workshops every Thursday for the duration of the exhibition

Arario Gallery is very proud to present Irrelevant: Local Emerging Asian Artists Who Don’t Make Work About Being Asian, an ambitious survey exhibition featuring the work of nearly fifty artists curated by Joann Kim and Lesley Sheng.

Artists: Seong Min Ahn, Shin Young An, Sophia Chai, Louis Chan, Karen Chan, Rona Chang, Gigi Chen, Yoon Cho, Micah Ganske, Hyoungsun Ha, Geujin Han, Takashi Horisaki, Jane V Hsu, Hidenori Ishii, Hong Seon Jang, Kyoung Eun Kang, Heige Kim, Seung Ae Kim, Nancy Kim, Hein Koh, Shizuka Kusayanagi, Amy Fung-yi Lee & Caroline Jung-ah Park, JaeEun Lee, Sinae Lee, Soo Im Lee, Jiyoun Lee-Lodge, Yijun Liao, Juri Morioka, Tadashi Moriyama, Joel Morrison, Dominic Neitz, Christian Nguyen, Asuka Osawa, Eung Ho Park, Youngna Park, Jung Eun Park, R&D, Ruijun Shen, Satomi Shirai, Hidemi Takagi, Tattfoo Tan, Kikuko Tanaka, Jason Tomme, Mai Ueda, Kako Ueda, InJoo Whang, Wenjie Yang, Mika Yokobori, Yejin Yoo, Jayoung Yoon, Seldon Yuan

I’m very glad that I can be a part of this show, because it’s sort of a protest from young Asian artists.

Irrelevant is a friendly and humorous, and somewhat ridiculous, rejection of a neurotic art market and its obsession with specifying artists to a particular culture and ethnicity. This exhibition purifies and de-labels the artist as Asian, by labeling the artist as Asian, to be shown inside a contemporary Asian art gallery.

More press release on Arario Gallery blog.

My friend Zeng Han is going to have his first solo exhibition in New York at 456 gallery on this Friday. Read the rest of this entry »

Artist: Yijun Liao
Title: “The Stranger in Her Room”
Date: 2009
Medium and Size: 16″x20″ C-print, Edition 1/15, signed on back

Ebay Link for this “the Stranger in Her Room” photo

Click here to our eBay page to see all the artwork available in our auction.

The Art for Haiti auction will be coordinated by eBay Giving Works and 100% of the proceeds will go to Partners in Health. The auction & print sale will begin February 27, 2010 at 7:30 PM (EST) and end March 9, 2010 at 7:30 PM (EST).

Bathing/Benyen, Tiana Markova-Gold, 2004

One of my photos will be included in NYMPHOTO’s online auction and print sale to benefit the relief effort in Haiti.

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I will be presenting a slideshow at the NY PhotoGroup Salon on Wednesday February 17th, 2010 at 6:30 pm at
SoHo Photo Gallery
15 White Street
New York, NY 10013 Read the rest of this entry »

I’m happy to be in Jen Bekman Gallery’s group show Mixtape. Each artist needs to pick a song for his/her art. I chose Sinead O’Connor’s I Am Stretched On Your Grave

Kate Bingaman Burt, Feelingstape #2, ink on paper. Courtesy of Jen Bekman Gallery.

Mixtape

Jen Bekman Gallery
East Village / Lower East Side
6 Spring Street, between Elizabeth St. and Bowery, 212-219-0166
November 21, 2009 – January 9, 2010
Opening: Friday, November 20, 6 – 8 PM
Web Site

Jen Bekman Gallery is pleased to present Mixtape, a group exhibition of forty-five photographs, prints, paintings and works on paper by thirty-six artists.

An opening reception will be held on Friday, November 20, 2009 from 6:00 to 8:00 pm. Mixtape will be on view Saturday, November 21 through Saturday, January 9, 2010, at Jen Bekman Gallery, located at 6 Spring Street, New York, New York.

In the spirit of our annual tradition, Mixape brings together original works and 20×200 Exhibiting artists include: Michelle Arcila, Ian Baguskas, Kate Bingaman Burt, Christine Callahan, Christian Chaize, Jorge Colombo, William Crump, Jessica Eaton, Scott Eiden, Clare Grill, Chad Hagen, Nick Hardeman, Joseph O. Holmes , Jason Jagel, Roel Knappstein, Gregory Krum, Liz Kuball, Jeff Lewis, Yijun Liao, Scott Listfield, Paul Madonna, Sarah McKenzie, Mike Monteiro, Jane Mount, Tommy Perman, Gary Petersen, Colleen Plumb, Jason Polan, Tyson Anthony Roberts, Mike Sinclair, Jessica Snow, Trey Speegle, William Swanson, Amy Talluto, Ann Toebbe and Matthew Tischler. Mixtape features original works as well as framed 20×200 limited-edition prints.
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I have 3 prints in tonite’s “Art From The Heart” Fundraiser. Including the above deep sea version photo.

The Vanderbilt Republic is hosting “Art from the Heart”, a benefit art exhibition to support our upcoming “Masters” project.

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The Stranger in Her Room, 2008

I was so glad to receive an email from CPW today saying I’ll be included in Photography Now 2009 in June. The juror is Charlotte Cotton, writer of “The Photography as Contemporary Art”. I’m honored to be in the same show with Alex Aristei, Clint Baclawski, Shane Lavalette, Betsey Seder, Lacey Terrell, Stacey Tyrell, and Toshihiro Yashiro(I love his photos, don’t know what he did).

Finally, I didn’t work at a frame shop for nothing. Cheap framing, yeah!!!!!

The opening is June 13th, anyone going to Woodstock? I will.
http://www.cpw.org/exhibitions/2009/photonow_greene/photonow/pages/gallery_pn09_pr.html

So excited. My resting on a bush is on 20×200 today!

It’s definitely my best night in New York so far. 那晚无疑是我到纽约后最棒的一晚了。

over my head, there’s Jen, & then somebody, somebody & then my photos on the wall.

I finally had my photos framed in shadow boxes. Larry at L&O framing did a wonderful job. Although it costed me a fortune, it’s worth it.  Sorry about the picture, too many people that night.
我终于用了SHADOW BOX做框。帮我做框的LARRY活很漂亮。虽然非常贵，但是也值了。照片看不清，人实在太多没法拍。

I know one thing that night. Opening is not for seeing the art but chatting. But I was happy to see my friends & get to know some interesting people.
展览那天人很多。OPENING不是给人看展的，是聊天的。不过那天还是很高兴，看到很多有朋友和有意思的人。

All the photographers in show came except Donald Weber, even including Hosang Park from Korea with his lovely wife Sunny. Moro said Park is the most handsome Korean guy he had ever seen. I agreed. He looks like Korean version of John Lennon. But he doesn’t speak much English, his friend & wife translated for him. Another lovely man is JOHN MANN. I adore his work, they are so cool. He’s a really sweet big guy with a characterized old fashioned black frame glasses. I also saw tall and pretty CARA PHILIP. She was too popular, always surrounded by people, so I didn’t get to talk to her. This is the 2nd time I saw JEN BEKMAN. I met her last time in her gallery while visiting. Moro encouraged me to go inside & say hi to her. I’m glad I did.  I remember about 2 years ago when I first went to see her gallery, it was closed. I was peering thru the window & wished I could have my first show in New York here. & I did! One happy thing is I met NOAH KALINA that night, too. My friend Shannon recognized him. He told me he really liked my photos. It made my day. I’ve been follow his work for a long time. He’s a true experimentalist in lighting. Another new friend I really like is Raul Gutierrez. He’s one of the panalists of HHS. I met him in 20X200 office earlier. He’s a handsome white hair guy. He is very interesting to talk to, has plentiful life experience & knows alot about China.
那天摄影师除了那个拍纪实的Donald Weber没来，其他人都来了。包括在韩国的Hosang Park，携夫人一起飞过来。MORO说PARK是他见过的最帅的韩国人，有点JOHN LENNON的韩国版。不过他不怎么会说英文，一直有个朋友在边上给他翻译。另一个可爱的人是JOHN MANN。我很欣赏他的作品，太COOL了。他本人也很亲切，人块头很大，但是很温顺，带了一副老式的黑框眼镜，可爱的太太。CARA PHILIP很高，很漂亮，我觉得比AMY ELKINS好看，可能她是化妆师出身。不过没有多聊，她果然非常忙，一直被人围着说话。JEN BEKMAN我已经是第二次见了。第一次是去年年底去看画廊时她正好在，后来MORO鼓励我进去跟她说句话。我很高兴当时进去了。我还记得两年前第一次去她的画廊，但是那天关门。我在门外张望时想，如果我在纽约的第一个展览可以办在这里多好啊！现在我实现了这个想法！另外让我最高兴的还是碰到NOAH KALINA，他跟我说他很喜欢我的照片。我从好早以前就一直留意他的照片，虽然不是一路人，但是他非常的先锋。还有一个谈的来的是Raul Gutierrez，他是HHS的评委之一，我在20X200的办公室里见过他一次。是一个张的非常帅的白发中年人，他去过中国18次，对中国非常了解。

The best way to end this night is to go to Chinese restaurant. My Chinese friends went there after the show, I was so jealousy before. But haha, we went there later, too.
展览后聚餐在粥之家，碰到八天他们吃饱出来，总算心理平衡了点。

And last but not least, my favorite piece from the show:

Untitled (Eclipse) by John Mann