Hsin-Hsi Chen
June 5 – 27, 2015 By using the most basic materials – pencil on paper and wood – Hsin-Hsi Chen continues her commitment in ‘pencil drawing’ to present the illusionary and riddled paths in 3D structures. Chen’s recent work is an evolution to merge drawing, light, shadow and actual illumination. Surreal and illusionary light and shadow versus real light and shadow are constructed from 3D architectural paper, wood forms to large-scale/full-room installation. The untouchable and invisible time and space overlap the unpredictable challenges and growth in universe as the light illuminates those mysterious elements and source of life. The shadow within reflects its subject as the soul to the human being. Hsin-Hsi Chen was born in Taipei, Taiwan and came to USA in 1994 to pursue graduate study in Fine Arts. Chen has received her MFA from University of Maryland at College Park in USA, 1996 and BFA from Tunghai University in Taiwan, 1992. Chen was granted U.S. Permanent Residency based on “Extraordinary Ability in Art” in 2002. Chen was the grantee of 2013 Maryland State Arts Council Grant/Individual Artist Award and 2007 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. She was selected in The Drawing Center Viewing Program in New York 1995, 2006-2010, and WPA Art Auction at Corcoran Gallery of Art and The Katzen Arts Center Museum, Washington, DC, 1998~2010. Chen’s artwork has been collected nationally and internationally, and were included in the Permanent Art Collection at Brooklyn Art Library, Brooklyn, New York, 2011 and National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, 2006. Chen was invited as the Art Critic/Judge for George Mason University and The Regional Scholastic Art Competition in Fairfax, VA in 2007. She also taught at GMU, UMCP, Montgomery College, VisArts, etc. Chen was selected in 99’ Critics’ Residency Program/Maryland Art Place and Artsites’ 98/Arlington Art Center and awarded the 1999 cover of Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society in Chicago/Seattle, etc. Chen’s artwork has been reviewed by major newspapers and journals, including: The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post, The Baltimore Sun, Philadelphia Weekly, The Washington Times, Washington Review, Art & Antiques, Articulate, Home & Design.
