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 Jessica Pi-hua Hsu –
A Carefree Chinese Artist
Jessica Pi-Hua Hsu’s parents come from Fujien China, but she was born in Formosa, Taiwan in 1957. In 1979 she received her Bachelors Degree in Education from National Cheng-Chi University, Taiwan. In 1987 she did graduate study in the History of Art at the University of California, Berkley, U.S.A. In 1989 she majored in painting at the Museum School of Fine Arts in Boston, U.S.A. In 1993 she returned to Taiwan from the United States and Europe, and by chance she was converted to Buddhism. She now lives in Taipei country hill simply as a "LOHAS" peolple, spending time between writing,meditating,farming,swimming, professional painting, flower arrangement art, and cross-field art creations including impromptu dance and painting which attract people at first sight. She loves to be a contemporary pilgrim in the realm of art!
Her abstract painting uses western media but has a unique oriental calligraphic style while the tone of her work possesses a vivid spirit, blending minimalism and the abstract with cubism and color fields. Between unrestrained yet tranquil, concise, beyond time and space, it is very easy for her to receive and release. Her works express life’s magnanimity, chi, power, strength, sweetness, and philosophical thought.
From her first exhibition in 1982 until now, her creations have been full of lively power throughout numerous shows and international art fair for 25 years. Her oriental mood and the scholarly atmosphere of her works attract the collector’s preference from all over the world, and are widely received in both private and public collections. Her artworks are now both represented by Capital Art Center, Taipei, and Motif Art Consulting, New York, USA.
For further viewing of this artist:
www.yessy.com/pihua www.pihua101.com
●●Playing Amidst Art,
＜Jessica Pi-hua Hsu＞
Jessica Pi-hua Hsu is one of the few extremely vigorous professional artists in Taiwan art circles.Recently her artwork is getting sparkling in China ,and even in New York. She specializes in mixed media creations and painting, cooperatively crossing over into different fields as well as fashion and art,impromptu dancing and painting,doing Chinese flower arrangement art research, writing . In over twenty years of art creations, her unique humanistic thought has created a visual feeling and an image of heart and soul that both startles and attracts people at first sight.
From her first art show in 1982 Jessica began studying Lao-tzu’s and Chong-tzu’s philosophy of non-active contemplation of nature for her art. In the later 80’s to the early 90’s she went abroad to study in other countries as well as to aggressively explore western culture and aesthetics. In 1993, she returned to Taipei and lived in the suburban mountain area of Taipei where she rethought Oriental humanism and concepts. This time she inserted Buddhism and Chinese floral arrangement as a new element in her artistic creation. Shaped and cultivated under such diverse cultural influences she brought forth a new personal strong and bright character in her art. She won a prize for new artists and the Asia Fine Arts special prize. Her work was selected by a French salon and exhibited in the Grand Palais, Paris; she also won a fine arts medal from the Association of Arts and Literature.
Although she is a female artist, the bright colors, many levels of space and full vigor of Chinese calligraphic lines are the result of her practice of Buddhism. Her creative style is both soft and strong. When seen from an artistic “grand view,” she has “magnanimity” that does not lack “leisure.” Nevertheless when seen from a close perspective, she has artistic “fineness” that does not lose its “carefree freedom.” She maintains western minimalism and color fields while she mixes Chinese calligraphic art and the tone of the work with a vivid spirit. She plays between the abstract and figurative.
Within all these years Jessica has “played amidst art.” In 1998 she produced “Tender Feeling Installed” that used decorative art and created a soft pad to invite the audience to interact with the artwork. In this way, she showed that artwork cannot only hang directly on the wall but also can be a pillow to be thrown, rubbed and hugged. In 2001, she crossed fields and cooperated with the choreographer Liu Shao-lu in “Dancing with Painting,” which combined the voice, body, atmosphere and breadth. In 2003, Jessica faced a massive stretch of cloth as her canvas. She moved along it and with ‘chi’ painted and splashed the colors spontaneously making a cloth “painting.” The designer Lin Guo-ji restructured cut and tailored cubist art clothes like sculpture from it, giving us an entirely new visual experience. The above fully show how she plays amidst different artistic regions with a relaxed, vivid temperament. Some of her works are reserved and retiring while others jump and actively move; this makes us rub our eyes and take a good look.
＜Comments about the artist＞
●Jessica pi-hua Hsu is sensational in her presentation as well as sensuous in her expression…
－－－Curator Tung Wu
Museum of fine arts in Boston,U.S.A.
●Jessica’s art is universal!
------Maestro Henry Mazer
previous Director of Taipei Sinfonietta
●Jessica pi-hua Hsu has succeeded in conciliating this century-old heritage with the help of her profound sensbility,symbiose which appears to be translating in complete freedom between the Painter and Nature, Energy and Contemplation,the Orient and Occident.
－－－Nuncia Pianelli
President Forarts International Paris
●Although she is a female artist, her creative style is both soft and strong. When seen from an artistic “grand view,” she has “magnanimity” that does not lack “leisure.” Nevertheless when seen from a close perspective, she has artistic “fineness” that does not lose its “carefree freedom.”
●She maintains western minimalism and color fields while she mixes Chinese calligraphic art and the tone of the work with a vivid spirit; she plays between the abstract and realistic. Through this she expresses the human body, heart, spirit (‘chi’), soul and harmony in a comprehensive universal nature that is playfully done to create art.
－－－Jerome F.keating Ph.D.
Professor of Taipei University
＜Jessica Pi-Hua Hsu ＞
1957 Born in Yun Lin, Taiwan
1979 Degree from National Cheng-Chi University, Taiwan
1987 Graduate Study of History of Art, University of California, Berkley, U.S.A.
1989 Museum School of Fine Arts in Boston, U.S.A.
Bibliograph
2008 Solo exihibit /Capital Art Center,Taipei
LIMA 2008,London
Art Taipei 2008 ,Taipei
Shanghi Art Fair 2008,China
2007 La Biennale 2007,Beilgium
LIMA 2007,London
CIGE Beijing 2007,China
Art Taipei 2007 ,Taipei
Art Shanghi 2007,China
Solo exihibit at at Capital Art Center, Taipei
2006 Art Taipei 2006
2005 Solo exihibit at at Capital Art Center, Taipei
Solo exihibit at Yun Lin Culture Bereau
Solo exihibit at GSR Gallery,Taichung
Joint exhibit Art Taipei 2005
2004 Joint exhibit TAF 2004,Taipei
2003 Solo exhibit at Sun-Yet Sen memorial Museum ,Taipei
KIAF 2003/Seoul, Korea
2002 Joint exhibit TAF `02
2001 Solo exhibit at Capital Art Center, Taipei
2001 Joint exhibit TAF `01
2000 Joint exhibit TAF `00
2000 Solo exhibit at Capital Art Center, Taipei
1999 Solo exhibit at TAF `99-Caves Arts Center
1998 Joint exhibit at TAF `98-Caves Art Center
1997 Solo exhibit at Pacific Cultural Foundation Arts Center, Taipei
Solo Exhibit at TAF `97
1996 Solo exhibit at G.ZEN 50 Art Gallery, Kaohsiung
1995 Joint exhibit of Abstract Arts at East Gallery, Taipei
1994 Solo exhibit at East Gallery, Taipei 1993 Solo exhibit at Taichung City Cultural Center Won the Medal from the Association of Arts and Literature
1992 Joint exhibit of DU SALON D`AUTOMNE in Grand Palais, Paris
1991 Solo exhibit at Dimensions Arts Center, Taipei
1989 Solo exhibit at Lung Men Arts Gallery, Taipei
1988 Joint exhibit at Taipei Fine Arts Museum Joint exhibit at Taiwan Museum of Arts Joint exhibit at Modem Arts Museum, Tokyo
1987 Solo exhibit at Spring`s Art gallery, Taipei
1986 Won the Excellent Novice Award
Won The Special Award of Asian FineArts Exhibition
1983～1985 Solo exhibit at Today Gallery, Taipei 1982 The First Solo exhibit at Wien Arts Gallery, Taipei |
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