TWArtists members highlight: Felicia Lin-- writer , member since Aug., 2010

Since 2004 I've been documenting the life of Su Beng- a Taiwanese nonagenarian Marxist revolutionary and lifelong Taiwan independence activist, who spent 7 years working undercover for the Chinese Communists, tried to assassinate Chiang Kai-Shek, and wrote "Taiwan's 400 Years of History." Follow along as I unravel and explain the elusive contradictions of this man's life story. It's my job as Su Beng's biographer to tell this story of one man's idealism, passion, heroism, and humanism. I believe it is a story that will inspire and inform. As a first time biographer, I'll also share some of my reflections on my role as Su Beng's biographer.

http://www.aboutsubeng.blogspot.com/

TWArtists members highlight: Tsai Wan Jin-- Painter , member since Oct., 2011

artist bio:  Wan-Jin was born and raised in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. She earned a BFA degree from National Hsinchu Teacher’s College, Taiwan, in 1998 and received her MFA from Long Island University, NY in 2003.

Wan-Jin has attained various exhibitions since her arrival in NY in 2000. She has been shown in Taipei Gallery of Taipei Cultural Center NY, High Street Design gallery NJ, Brooklyn Brewery, The space Art show NY, Gallery 402 NYC, Stay Gold Gallery NY,Creative Clash Art NY, Hillwood Art Museum NY, Hunter College Art Gallery, Second Ave Firehouse Gallery NY, Student Art Gallery Long Island University C.W. Post NY.

Wan-Jin has been an assistant of visual arts department at the Taipei Cultural Center, NY, an installer at P.S.1, a freelance art-journalist, and an assistant at Gallery 402, NY. Wan-Jin now lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

Artist Statement:

My work explores human figures through three primary themes; the darkness in human beings, the breaking of conventional, simplistic views of nudity and sexuality, and the mutations of the human form. Specifically, I show a number of fantasia-type male and female bodies, with limbs and body parts irrationally conjoined, and rendered in watercolor pencil on cardboard to create mutant creatures. I also show semi-nude women, wooden forms depicting symbolic images, (bottles, weapons) merging with flat-pattern compositions charged with eroticism, depersonalization, and menace on canvas. Through figurative representation, I wish to evoke different dialogues from the mundane realities of this theme.


www.tsaiwanjin.com

TWArtists members highlight: Wen Wen Lin (林 文 文)-- conceptual & installation artist-- TWANY member since July 2010

Wen Wen Lin: painter, conceptual &  installation artist, film maker, art writer, poet, photographer; founder of TWArtists: A global Taiwanese Women Artists Association

Wen Wen Lin interacting with the viewer of her installation work: My Brave New World, June 2011

Bio and Artist Statement:
Apart from been trained as an abstract painter, under one of the legendary Abstract Expressionist Painters, Larry Poons, Wen Wen Lin is also an avid blogger, poet, film maker and photographer.  Due to her embrace in "a whole being"-- instead of an expert in one small area, one can see disciplinary boundary has blurred in  her work. They all come together as different ways of  "expression" in searching for the ultimate meaning in life.

My Brave New World exhibition, exhibition at Hell's kitchen art festival was assisted by 2 beautiful lady jokers, Giovanna & Wen -Chi.

http://art-in-action-artivists.blogspot.com/

Video Installation: Writing ON Light: Chance Operation, Part of Stealing From God series, Aug. 2010

                                            http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8GotDT0jKU

Deeply believes in art as a mean of social interaction-- art action-- Wen Wen takes art to the level to inspire and ignite social change, in order to create a greater world for us to live in.  She ventures into the realm of artistic activism (artivism), making art that immerse the viewers into the art pc, the viewers become part of the installation and the active creator of the art work.  The artist, the facilitator/joker, remain neutral in the entire act, like the joker card in the deck of cards.  Her most recent work, and an on-going project that travels, is: My Brave New World, which has its premiere exhibition in Hell's kitchen art-fest on June 26, 2011.
Wen Wen Lin also write about those artists who act to be subversive to  totalitarian regime, and fight against social injustice and oppression.   Her most recent writing is about artist dissident: Ai Wei Wei: "The Dance of Sunflower Seeds", which could be viewed in her blog: Artivists: Art in Action.
blogspot for Artivists: art in action (since Jan. 2011)
http://art-in-action-artivists.blogspot.com/

In July 2010, Wen Wen founded TWArtists: A Global Taiwanese Women Artists Association, along with founding consultant Kun Shan Huang.  Thus embarking on a great journey, to nurture, and to promote Taiwanese Women Artists and show the uniqueness of  their art.
https://www.facebook.com/TwArtistsAGlobalTaiwaneseWomenArtistsAssociation

Impression of a Winter Sky: New York Landscape, March 2009

More of Wen Wen Lin's writing and blogs could be found below:
 
blogspot for film: The Other Side (since March 2011):
http://voicetheotherside.blogspot.com/
blogspot for literary writing: Wen Wen Lin (since March 2011)
http://wenwenlin.blogspot.com/
blogspot for photography: Wen Wen Lin Photography (since March 2011)
http://wenwenlinphotography.blogspot.com/

TWArtists members highlight:Jocelyn Yuchia Chang (張育嘉) -- Artistic Director, ESP-I Performing Art Group-- TWANY member since Aug 2010

Jocelyn Yuchia Chang: Artistic Director, ESP-I Performing Art Group: 找我劇場
blog: Beyond the Sky: http://changyuchia.com/

「愛情蠟像館」演出完畢，一切都很順利，謝謝大家支持。各方意見都會廣納聆聽，再次感恩。
找我劇場 http://espitheatre.wordpress.com/ 

 

 

press:  http://udn.com/NEWS/READING/REA8/6061049.shtml

http://udn.com/NEWS/READING/REA8/6061361.shtml

http://tw.news.yahoo.com/article/url/d/a/101227/78/2jpx6.html

TWArtists members highlight: Victoria Linchong-- theater artist and filmmaker based in NYC-- TWANY member since Mar. 2011

 theater artist and filmmaker based in NYC. 

Victoria Linchong has 10+ years experience in experimental theater and is now branching out into film.

As an actress, she most notably had a feature role in Jeff Weiss' Obie Award winning HOT KEYS at Naked Angels. Production credits include the premiere of several plays by James Purdy, among them SUN OF THE SLEEPLESS with Laurence Fishburne, and WILLIAMS GUIGNOL, the world premiere of two of Tennessee Williams' last short plays.

Victoria was Development Director of Theater for the New City from 1999-2005. She gave up her position to work on her own projects and since then wrote, directed and produced a short film, DOUBLE DEALING, which was a finalist in the 2nd Annual 72 Hour Film Shootout sponsored by Asian Cinevision and MTV. She has also written two scripts: GILDED CAGE, which won 2nd Prize in the Suspense/Thriller category at the Indie Gathering Film Festival and placed as Quarter Finalist in the L.A. Fade In Awards; and OBSOLESCENCE, which made it to the finals of the Sundance Screenwriters Lab, the Slamdance Screenplay Contest, the Berlin Film Festival Talent Campus AND the Boston International Film Festival Script to Screen contest.

In 2006, Victoria founded a new intercultural theater and film company, Direct Arts, which has since received support from Lower Manhattan Community Council, Asian American Arts Alliance and the Puffin Foundation.

• http://www.directarts.org
• http://vlinchong.jimdo.com
• http://www.AlmostHomeTaiwan.com

• vlinchon@earthlink.net

TWArtists members highlight:: Yi-Chun Wu(吳依純)-- dance photographer-- TWANY member since Aug. 2010

 Yi-Chun Wu(吳依純)

artist bio and statement:
Photographing more than 300 dance companies, and currently the house photographer for Dance Theater Workshop.

Yi-Chun Wu, a dance photographer, has been photographing more than 300 dance companies, and currently the house photographer for Dance Theater Workshop. Her client base includes: MoMA, Shen Wei Dance Arts, Parsons Dance, Ballet Tech & the official photographer of dance festivals for WHITE WAVE's John Ryan Theater. Photographs by Yi-Chun have been collected and published in the NEW YORK TIMES, Washington Post, the VILLAGE VOICE, Back Stage, amNewYork, METRO NEW YORK, DANCE Magazine, Dancer Magazine, Dance Research Journal, TATE ETC, Journal of Aesthetic Education, to name a few. Her portfolio can be viewed by visiting www.yichunwu.com or http://picasaweb.google.com/wuyichun. She can be contacted email: wuyichun@gmail.com

	http://www.yichunwu.com http://picasaweb.google.com/wuyichun http://picasaweb.google.com/wuyichuntravel