March 15 – May 31, 2010
SCAD Gallery
2/F, 30-32 Wyndham Street
Central, Hong Kong
852.2253.8000
http://www.scad.edu/hongkong
Generation SCADGeneration SCAD“Generation SCAD offers a sampling of the very best SCAD talent, and gives rise to new creative dialogues about contemporary art and design,” said SCAD Hong Kong Executive Director for External Relations Elizabeth Rowan. “We are excited to contribute to Hong Kong’s growing international fine arts community, from debuting SCAD’s emerging student artists to sharing our accomplished professors and alumni who have shown their work at some of the most prestigious museums and galleries around the world.”
SCAD alumnus and Shanghai native Caomin Xie, who earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the China Academy of Arts in Beijing in 1998 and Master of Fine Arts degree in painting from SCAD in 2001, offers five paintings in the exhibition. Xie’s bold, evocative work takes an in-depth look at how media and painting have evolved in the dialogue of contemporary art. In addition to the formal movements of shape, line and color, Xie’s paintings move visually between religious and media-driven imagery. With a careful overlapping of two images, Xie’s paintings have a vibrant quality that suggests viewers are seeing a “still image” on a television screen.
Xie has shown his work at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.; RX Gallery in San Francisco, Calif.; Ethan Cohen Gallery in New York City; Galerie Barthe & Senarclens in Geneva, Switzerland; and Gallery 55 and the Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art in Shanghai, China.
With the opening of SCAD Gallery, the university now operates 12 galleries in the United States, France and Hong Kong, with an annual exhibitions calendar featuring a range of work by talented SCAD students, professors, alumni and renowned visiting artists. Over the past decade, SCAD galleries have hosted exhibitions featuring work by such internationally renowned artists as Andy Warhol; Christo and Jean-Claude; Kader Attia; Cao Fei + Map Office; and Karim Rashid.
SCAD Gallery hours are 10:30 a.m.–7:30 p.m., Monday through Saturday. For more information, visit http://www.scad.edu/hongkong
SCAD will open SCAD Hong Kong at the former North Kowloon Magistracy Building in Sham Shui Po in September 2010, offering courses of study focused on digital media. Courses of study are registered with the Hong Kong Education Bureau. SCAD is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. The university will offer bachelor’s and master’s degrees at SCAD Hong Kong, pending approval by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.
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Gallery address:
SCAD Gallery
2/F, 30-32 Wyndham Street
Central, Hong Kong
852.2253.8000
http://www.scad.edu/hongkong
