Candlewood Arts Festival

Borrego Springs, CA

March 23 - April 14, 2024

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Join us for an inspiring day of art and community at the Candlewood Arts Festival in Borrego Springs, California, on March 23rd! This year’s festival features a diverse lineup of talented artists and educators, including Karla Diaz, Jake Frelich, Pearl C. Hsiung, Debra Scacco, and nearly 40 artists from Borrego Springs High School. The event will showcase a range of activities, from painting workshops and artist talks to a performance that weaves together the stories of Borrego Springs’ residents with the area’s unique desert landscape.

The festival kicks off with Karla Diaz’s participatory performance, “Borrego Unity Run,” offering a guided tour through the local histories of labor and community. Debra Scacco will engage visitors with discussions about her sculpture, inspired by the region’s water stories, while Pearl C. Hsiung leads a drop-in painting workshop using natural materials. The day will also feature an artists’ panel discussion, providing insights into their creative processes, and concludes with an opening reception at The Candlewood Gallery, showcasing works by both student and professional artists.

Don’t miss this vibrant celebration of art, education, and community in the stunning setting of Borrego Springs!

Artist Talk at The Broad Museum

TALK

Art In Transit

Thursday, Nov 09, 2023

7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.

Oculus Hall at The Broad

Tickets free with reservations

(L-R) Ann Hamilton. over-under-over, 2023. Printed film on glass/Lámina impresa en vidrio. Mungo Thomson. Negative Space (STScI-2015-02), 2023.Porcelain enamel steel panels/Paneles de acero esmaltado porcelánico. Pearl C. Hsiung. High Prismatic, 2023. Glass Mosaic/Mosaico de vidrio  

The Broad and Metro Art present Ann Hamilton, Pearl C. Hsiung, and Mungo Thomson in conversation. Moderated by Broad Curator and Publications Manager Ed Schad.

Located adjacent to the museum, the new Metro Grand Av Arts/Bunker Hill Station features strikingly beautiful, large-scale, architecturally integrated artworks by Ann Hamilton, Pearl C. Hsiung, and Mungo Thomson. The artists will discuss concepts behind each of the artwork designs for these site-specific commissions. The conversation will explore how each artist’s studio practice and past works informed their approach to these monumental public artworks, which transform the transit journey into a unique art experience. After the program, the artists will accompany guests into the transit station to experience the artworks in person.


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Metro Art Announces Monumental Artworks in Three New Downtown Los Angeles Stations

All artworks will be available for viewing upon the stations’ opening on Friday, 6/16/2023.

Artists (left to right, top to bottom): Andrea Bowers, Audrey Chan, Ralph Gibert, Mark Steven Greenfield, Ann Hamilton, Pearl C. Hsiung, Clare Rojas, Mungo Thomson, Clarence Williams and Samira Yamin

Metro Art reveals new site-responsive artworks by eight acclaimed artists, which have been integrated into each level of three highly anticipated downtown Los Angeles Metro Rail stations.

Artworks by

All artists were selected through an open, competitive selection process following the recommendation of a panel of community-based arts professionals. Over 180 local artists, arts and cultural organizations and community advisors were involved in shaping the Metro Art program for these three new stations.

Additionally, temporary exhibitions by Ralph Gilbert and Samira Yamin are on view at the Grand Av Arts/Bunker Hill and Historic Broadway Stations as part of the Metro Art Lightbox Exhibition Program.

> Learn more about the new stations and details for opening day!
> Learn more about the artwork and artists.

 

High Prismatic by Pearl C. Hsiung - Concourse

High Prismatic by Pearl C. Hsiung on the Concourse level at Grand Av Arts / Bunker Hill Station

This ‘geyser’ reflects the dramatic forces of endless change that bubble and erupt in nature and human nature, both of which have shaped the Bunker Hill area. The saturated palette, variegated painting techniques and compositional approach in the artwork reflect aspects of the artist’s Taiwanese American identity and the multi-textured, polychromatic experience of growing up and living in Southern California.

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Not Yet: Pearl C. Hsiung

January 17 - February 17, 2023

Reception: January 31, 3 -5 PM with a short artist’s talk at 3:30 PM in the gallery

They (Gomukh II), 2022, acrylic on canvas, 30 x 40 in.

The Chan Gallery is pleased to announce Not Yet, a solo exhibition featuring works by Pearl C. Hsiung. As our visiting professor of painting, Hsiung taught Painting I and Topics in Contemporary Painting last fall and will teach Painting I and a new course that she designed called Advanced and Expanded Painting this spring at Pomona College. Please join us for the artist’s reception on Tuesday, January 31st, from 3-5 pm.

“Not Yet features two paintings, They (Gomukh II), 2022, a wall painting on canvas, and Themses, 2019, a large-scale free-standing work. Both feature glacial landscapes that differ in their imaging approach yet pose similar questions regarding the sustainability of the landscape as an aesthetic genre, conceptual site, or physical space. In this discourse, Not Yet asks us to think about the interdependence of land, human, and the more-than-human in this ecological moment. Both the title and exhibition work limn the continual emergence and refusal of arrival that flow through current conditions, consequences, and urgencies.”

-Pearl C. Hsiung

Chan Gallery
Pomona College
370 Columbia Ave.
Claremont, CA, 91711

FAC XTRA RETREAT (FXR) at REDCAT

FAC XTRA RETREAT (FXR)

Ei Arakawa, Patty Chang, Pearl C Hsiung, Amanda Ross-Ho, Anna Sew Hoy, Shirley Tse, and Amy Yao

February 17 - 18, 2022

6 Asian American female artists and 1 Asian American male artist dancing together on mirror stage in the style of yuri on ice with two cats

6 Asian American female artists and 1 Asian American male artist dancing together on mirror stage in the style of yuri on ice with two cats

FRI FEB 17, 8:30 PM
SAT FEB 18, 2 PM

REDCAT Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater

631 W 2ND ST. LOS ANGELES, CA 90012

FAC XTRA RETREAT (FXR) is a studio art pedagogy-themed performance by a temporal grouping of seven Asian American artist-educators based in L.A.: Ei Arakawa, Patty Chang, Pearl C Hsiung, Amanda Ross-Ho, Anna Sew Hoy, Shirley Tse, and Amy Yao. Academia uses acronyms more than Gen Zers! Inspired by the many mandatory online training modules and follow-up quizzes required of instructors by their teaching institutions, FAC XTRARETREAT (FXR) promises “learning outcomes” with a series of weird, hard, soft, informative, and sometimes physically challenging multiple-choice problems with answers deeply associated with each artist’s teaching philosophy. With the help of suspicious polling devices, costumed performers and all members of the public take on-stage votes. The results of the polls will be acted out, branched out, and change the destination of the performance. Participants will be awarded an FXR certificate of completion at the end.

Emily Cheng, Pearl C. Hsiung, Sarah Lee

8 July - 28 August 2022

39+ Art Space

39 Keppel Road, #03-01, Tanjong Pagar Distripark, Singapore

The works that will be showcased exploring themes ranging from the very humanly structural concepts of knowledge and power to critical re-evaluations of the anthropocentric sublime, to the cosmic bridge between mind, space, and spirit. While vastly different in style and focus, they are united in that they are women of Asian descent who grew up and are pursuing their creative practice in America. Cheng, Hsiung and Lee are adept with interweaving their unique perspectives with their individual theoretical investigations, frequently citing feminine energy, eastern artistic sensibilities, and eastern philosophies as driving forces in their explorations of more universal subject matter.

New video: preview the artwork at future Grand Av Arts/Bunker Hill Station

Regional Connector Corridor Artwork: Time-Lapse of Mural by Pearl C. Hsiung

Piecing together parts of a large-scale glass mosaic mural in preparation for the future Grand Av Arts/Bunker Hill Station. Created by Pearl C. Hsiung, “High Prismatic” will tower 61 feet high over the station’s prominent concourse elevator lobby.

Translated into glass from an original painting that explodes with clouds of Sumi ink, an eruption of squeegeed enamel paint, rich washes of watercolor and a spray paint speckled sky, the artwork references the constant geological, social and urban change that Bunker Hill has undergone.

Regional Connector is a 1.9-mile light rail project connecting the Metro L Line (Gold) to 7th Street/Metro Center Station in downtown Los Angeles. The project will feature artwork integrated into three new stations: Little Tokyo/Arts District Station, Historic Broadway Station, and Grand Ave Arts/Bunker Hill Station.

Video originally posted on Metro Art

Over the last year, the painting’s glistening colors and textures have been carefully translated into glass mosaic by skilled artisans at Mosaicos Venecianos de Mexico in Cuernavaca, Mexico. The studio works with professional artists to create artworks for public environments.   

The artwork references the constant geological, social and urban change that Bunker Hill has undergone, as well as the artist’s Taiwanese-American identity and “polychromatic” experience of growing up in L.A. 

“I wanted to celebrate the disparate yet harmonious cosmos of images, languages, cultures and relationships that make up the history of this region, its ever churning present and endlessly shifting future,” states Hsiung. 

Mosaic as an art form has been traced back as far as the fourth millennium B.C. to the Temple of Urukin Mesopotamia and the ancient Greek city of Pella. Mosaics were also found in Pre-Columbian cultures, which decorated objects using shells, mother-of-pearl and semi-precious stones. Because glass mosaic is highly durable, materials are often used in artworks in transit systems.

Over 1 million hand-made and cut-glass pieces of various sizes create the final artwork seen here at Mosaicos Venecianos de Mexico during fabrication.

A key step in advance of final assembly and installation is the dry-fit process. Staff from Metro Art & Design recently laid out the fabricated glass mosaic for review with the artist. The goal of the processes is to confirm the artwork fulfills the original artwork design and that all pieces are present before final installation in the station.  

Here’s a quick glimpse into the dry-fit – and more to come!

Originally posted on Metro Art

The Hearing Trumpet, Part I

The Hearing Trumpet

Part I

26 February – 26 March 2022

Organized by Danielle Shang

Galerie Marguo is pleased to present The Hearing Trumpet, Part I, the first installment of a group exhibition gathering artists of Asian descent from the Americas and Europe. The title of the exhibition is adopted from the late Leonora Carrington’s fantastical novel The Hearing Trumpet (1974). 

 

The participating artists include Pio Abad, Naotaka Hiro, Pearl C. Hsiung, Ce Jian, Yeni Mao, Tammy Nguyen, Anna Sew Hoy, Sean Shim-Boyle, XIE Lei, ZHANG Yunyao, and Ye Qin Zhu. Their works span all disciplines and articulate negotiations of multiple and sometimes clashing histories and identities, the processing of trauma and new awareness, and different notions of temporalities and spatialities that are informed by personal memories, collective experiences, and conceived in different social and cultural contexts.

Candlewood Arts Festival March 29-31, 2019

On Saturday March 30, 2019, Holocene Screen, an outdoor sculpture created in collaboration with the youth of Borrego Springs, will be installed in Galleta Meadows in Borrego Springs. Holocene Screen, which explores the interconnected and transforming relationship of human/nature/artificial, will engage the public in these ideas as they are invited to add to and expand on this work sited out in the expanse of the Anza Borrego landscape.
http://candlewoodartsfestival.org

The Beyond opens at the NCMA

NORTH CAROLINA MUSEUM OF ART

2110 Blue Ridge Road
Raleigh, NC 27607
(919) 839-6262

https://ncartmuseum.org

Featuring paintings, sculptures, works on paper, photographs, site-specific installations and more, in The Beyond, you’ll enjoy the renowned artwork of Georgia O’Keeffe while discovering a new generation of American artists working today:

Negar Ahkami
Milano Chow
Cynthia Daignault
Sharona Eliassaf
Monica Kim Garza
Loie Hollowell
Pearl C. Hsiung
Louise Jones
Kim Keever
Molly Larkey
Caroline Larsen
Mark Lewis
Wardell Milan
Jennifer Packer
Dylan Gebbia-Richards
Andy Robert
Matthew Ronay
Tschabalala Self
Anna Valdez
Britny Wainwright