Yu Hsieh

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Paintings

Title: The End of the Youth Series

Size: 194x130cm, 162x130cm, 116.5x91cm, 65x53cm

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Year: 2016

I have been deeply influenced by Chuck Close and his photorealistic style. I especially like the mechanic and objective ways of pictorial depiction. During the creating process, I tried to treat myself as a machine, and the result was just like a designed, trendy commercial advertisement for the department stores.


Paintings


Paintings

Taking the popular place for the afternoon tea as the creating subject, I have tried to depict my feeling over people’s excessive food habits.


Paintings

I attempted to display the disconsolation that came along with the end of the youthhood as well as the powerlessness derived from being invaded by the foreign culture. The characters in the pictures dress themselves in foreign styles; the fact that Taiwanese young people worshiping foreign fashions is related to its colonial history. We can find that Taiwanese culture is mostly “imitation”, “duplicate”, “reproduction”… …


Paintings Size: 80x65cm (3 pieces) 27x22cm (3 pieces) 35x27cm (3 pieces) Medium: Oil on Canvas Year: 2015 I am the subject of my paintings because I intend to keep the memories of the best time of my life as well as the people and things around me during this period of time. The intentional destructions on the picture frames are to create the textures and breadth through constant adding and subtracting of the pigments. The overlaying process of the brush strokes also reflects my helplessness and loneliness during the creation, which purposely produces a pictorial effect that is different from the photography.


Paintings

Self-portrait Series No. 2

Self-portrait Series No. 5

Size: 162x130cm

Size: 162x130cm

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Medium: Oil on Canvas

Year: 2015

Year: 2015


Paintings Self-portrait Series No. 8 Size: 60x180cm (3 pieces) Medium: caryon Year: 2015


Paintings Family Size: 25cm in diameter Medium: Oil on Canvas Year: 2015


Paintings

Title: Looking to Structures out of the Car Size: 112x150cm Medium: Acrylic Year: 2014 Excising dots and lines to present the stillness and flow of time as well as the loneliness and separation of the city.


Paintings

Title: Tipping Point Size: 80x106cm Medium: Acrylic Year: 2014


Paintings

Title: The Remnant Heat Size: 80x106cm Medium: Acrylic Year: 2014 Arranging color blocks to experience the pictorial effect during the process of drawing colors, lines, and dots, which seems to be pointlessly but the entire process exists in one picture frame so that the drawing processes made at different moments can be presented to the viewer at the same time.


Transfer the cubic realistic paintings to sensitive color blocks, and take the East District of Taipei City, my neighborhood, as the subject to record my sentiments.

Paintings Title: Beautiful Scenery in Waiting

Size: 45x140cm

Medium: Acrylic

Year: 2014


Paintings Title: Where Is the Tram ? Size: 65x80cm Media: Charcoal, Oil on Canvas Year: 2014

Title: A Phubber in Fishnet Stockings Size: 65x80cm Media: Charcoal, Oil on Canvas Year: 2014 Use black and white colors as well as the mechanic ways of drawing to express the coldness of the urban life, which makes a strong contrast to the colorful background of the exterior world.


Paintings Title: Peeping Size: 162x130cm Media: Oil on Canvas Year: 2014


Sketching

Title: The Dreamland Series Size: 116.5x91cm (4 pieces) Media: Epoxy Resin, Crayon Year: 2016

Title: Desire Series No.2 Size: 20x15cm (6 pieces) Medium: Poster Colors Year: 2016


Sketching

Title: Recording Dreams Size: 20x15cm (4 pieces) Medium: Poster Colors Year: 2016


Sketching

Title: Female Body Size: 20x15cm (8 pieces) Media: Ink, Charcoal Year: 2016


Sketching Title: Desire Series No. 3 Size: 52x37cm (4 pieces) Media: Charcoal, Crayon Year: 2016


Designs

2013

Justin Timberlake’s music style is a mixture of Rock & Roll and Blue Note. His dressing taste is both classic and trendy. He is my idol and I put a lot of attentions on his creation; therefore, I wish to be able to design his album to match up with his visual image of Company Magazine’s the Sexiest Man in the world.


Designs

I try to put 2D and 3 D on the same surface to create an effect similar to Picasso’s cubic style.

Is black the character or is white the character? I would like to overturn people’s concept in space about the typeface.

2013 Oracle bone script was the origin of the Chinese characters and the earliest discovery of Chinese character forms. I take Chinese oracle bone script as the inspiration to create a written style imitated from the oracle bone script. From the writing perspective, the characters had the knife-carved effect; from the purpose of usage, they were used to augur. Therefore, I wish to present the tool marks, cracks, and religious mystery in the characters.


Motion Pictures Taiwan is the tool of the power struggle between China and the US; therefore, communist influences are detectable everywhere in the major enterprises, government offices, and people’s daily life….. Although Taiwan is a democratic country, we are actually nothing but China’s puppet. Title: Crisis of the Island Country Medium: Digital Camera Lately the political issues of the South China Sea (the US helped the Philippines to take up Taiping Island) made me realize the desolation of small countries’ being bullied by countries with great powers. The powerlessness and helplessness motivated me to express my anger through this creation. I took our national father, Dr Sun Yet-Sen, to symbolize Taiwan’s political leaders, and put the underpants that carry American national flag over the statue’s head to emphasize the sorrow of being humiliated by powerful countries. Title: A Salute to Our Great Leader Medium: Digital Camera Year: 2016 Length: 1 Minute link: https://vimeo.com/176252308

Year: 2015 Length: 3 Minutes and 50 Seconds link: https://vimeo.com/177518270 Password: 0929


Motion Pictures The grooming process is like a ritual which transforms geek to metrosexual‌. Title: The Toilette Series No. 1 Medium: Digital Camera Year: 2015 Length: 2 Minutes and 30 Seconds link:

https://vimeo.com/179772322

Password: 0929


Motion Pictures

Title: The Toilette Series No. 2 link: https://vimeo.com/177519512 Password: 0929

Medium: Digital Camera Year: 2015 Length: 2 Minutes and 27 Seconds


Motion Pictures

Title: The Toilette Series No. 3 link: https://vimeo.com/177520172 Password: 0929

Medium: Digital Camera Year: 2015 Length: 1 Minute


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