Monday, August 17, 2020

Eric C. Chiang - Energy Flow in Connecticut Rivers


Blue Matterhorn , Oil on canvas, 72" x 48", 2020
The gallery section of my studio at the AmFab building in Bridgeport, CT
To glance at Eric Chiang's studio. Don't forget to turn on your speakers.
https://youtu.be/S-jSHVd0L78

Eric is a full time professional artist; his artwork has been exhibited in National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts in Taipei , Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Queens Museum in New York, New Britain Museum of American Arts, Mattatuck Museum, Westport Arts Center (Now MoCA Westport), Silvermine Guild Gallery, Carriage Barn Arts Center, Bruce Kershner Gallery, Schelfhaudt Gallery in Connecticut, and many other venues and communities.  
In September 2016, Eric Chiang was given a Citation from the New York State Assembly for his outstanding artwork about humanity.
Eric grew up in Taiwan where he received art training from regular school programs. Aspiring to become an artist, he spent most of his youth absorbing history and techniques of art creation and classical music composition from all sources he could find.
Prompted by the economic situation in Taiwan at that time, his life took a big detour. After obtaining degrees from National Taiwan University and New York University, he started a long and successful IT management career on Wall Street. Nevertheless, his desire to create art grew stronger than ever. He committed to painting daily despite his extremely demanding corporate responsibilities. Decades later, Eric became a full-time artist.
In addition to creating art that explores the meaning of existence, showing his empathy for pan-human desperation, love, connections, and hope, he is very active in leading organizations connecting individual artists to each other, as well as artists to the public.
Water Lyrics & Music , Oil on Linen,
24" x 30", 2016
Memory of Connecticut shoreline oil on canvas,
12" x 12", 2020
Blue Tahoe , Oil on canvas, 48" x 72", 2020
Interview video : Westport Library with Eric C. Chiang (Artists in Residency)
https://youtu.be/XqFKV8RxcAo
Westport Library's Interview with Eric Chiang (Artists in Residency)
(left) Civilizations & Connectedness I, [Series:"Are we born connected?"], Acrylic on canvas, 60" x 48", 2012
(mid) Blue Rhapsody of Swan Lake, Oil on Canvas, 36" x 36", 2014
(right) Song of Constellations, [Series: "Are we born connected?"], Acrylic on canvas, 60" x 48", 2012
2020 solicitude
In his latest series, Eric kept his strokes in the background while carefully omitting all pleasant spiritual beauty. The dark area pertains to flesh hiding behind its own dazzling instrumental light. The pandemic brings us back to solidarity and an irritable, restless and dark silent era. On a black background but visible from a considerable distance. we want to stay hidden from the violent world, and build disguise in a fresh nature and cosmos.
Video Jul 01, 14 45 12
The Year 2020, No.1.  
oil & acrylic on canvas, 30" x 60"
The Year 2020, No.2, oil on canvas, 40" x 30"
The below link is a performance ("Shore, Island, and Chelonia") on December 22, 2018 at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, where Yuan-Chen Li's music was premiered -- she played the piano. Five of Eric's 12 paintings in the " Land Scripts" series were on the stage, augmented with a marine video and plastics gathered in a fish net.

Music composed by Yuan-Chen Li
Paintings, installation & audience interaction design by Eric C Chiang;
Clarinetist Yi-Wen Chen
https://youtu.be/KA9Aug7EQ6E
World premier of "Shore, Island, & Chelonia" (mv. II) at Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth 12/22/2018
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Upcoming Exhibition
Silvermine Guild Artists Exhibition
Jul 18 - Aug 20, 2020
​1037 Silvermine Road, New Canaan, CT
Current Exhibition 
Do or Die (Beethoven's 250th Birthday )
Feb 27 - TBD
Beechwood Arts @ Westport Library

" Small is the new big ",
Apr 26 - Jun 26, 2020
at the Rene Soto Gallery 
1 Wall Street, Norwalk, CT

Landscripts VIII, IX, & X , oil on (3) canvases, 60"Hx144"W

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