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