Plants, Creatures
and Other Animals
Featuring New and Past Works by Taiga Chiba and Miuh Yang
June 19, 2006 to September 1, 2006
Featuring New and Past Works by Taiga Chiba and Miuh Yang
June 19, 2006 to September 1, 2006
Opening Ceremony - June 23,
2006 , 3pm - 6pm:
Artist will attend the opening ceremony
Summer is a time which promises warmth and sunshine, moments of play and lazy days. Trees and flowers are in full bloom and the world in which we live is bursting with life and activity. Featured works by artists, Taiga Chiba and Miuh Yang could not be more fitting for the summer season, and Art Beatus (Vancouver) Consultancy Ltd. is delighted to be presenting their art in the upcoming exhibition, “Plants, Creatures and Other Animals” starting Monday, June 19, 2006. A reception will be held on Friday, June 23, 2006 from 3pm to 6pm. Both artists will be in attendance and the public is encouraged to attend.
Originally focusing on fashion design and the commercial art business when living in Korea, new artist Miuh Yang moved to Vancouver and was quickly taken by the city’s flowers, trees, and greenery. The influence of Vancouver’s natural surroundings inspired Miuh to take her love of fabric, texture and nature and create art. Miuh’s delicately designed pieces combine fabric, paint, beading, and ribbon. The abundant layers of resplendent flowers, leaves, miscellaneous cut-out shapes, and threaded lines resembling grass are worked together to make her delightful pieces. Similar to that of extraordinarily ornate patchwork quilting, the lustrous plant life, soft breezes, and quietude presented in Miuh’s works are warm and inviting.
Currently living and working in Vancouver, BC, Taiga Chiba, created his "Ancestors and Ancient Life" series using the traditional Japanese Sumi-e painting technique (painting with black ink on rice paper). Playful, spontaneous, and fluid, the artist’s subjects are quirky and eccentric, reminiscent of single-celled organisms being observed through a microscope or fossils of pre-historic creatures who inhabited our world many lifetimes ago. Taiga’s new series of work, “My Return to the Cambrian Sea”, which was produced in the fall of 2005 during an artist residency in Bhopal, India, was inspired by his surroundings.
“The monsoons lasted for three weeks in September. I had a flood in my flat. It was very humid. My clothes would never dry. I noticed the layers of betel nut chewing tobacco which had been spat on the white building walls. This gave me the idea to use a syringe to eject liquid colours onto the plate as if spitting it on the wall. One day, an artist brought me fabric dyes from the market. I played with the dyes and water on the plexiglass plates. The results were the Cambrian period scenes of the water as the origin of plants and animals”. In viewing the artist’s works, one cannot help but question the origins of life and our existence in the daily world. A printmaker for over 30 years, Taiga Chiba has a master of fine arts from Concordia University in Montreal and received his early arts training in Japan.
Artist will attend the opening ceremony
Summer is a time which promises warmth and sunshine, moments of play and lazy days. Trees and flowers are in full bloom and the world in which we live is bursting with life and activity. Featured works by artists, Taiga Chiba and Miuh Yang could not be more fitting for the summer season, and Art Beatus (Vancouver) Consultancy Ltd. is delighted to be presenting their art in the upcoming exhibition, “Plants, Creatures and Other Animals” starting Monday, June 19, 2006. A reception will be held on Friday, June 23, 2006 from 3pm to 6pm. Both artists will be in attendance and the public is encouraged to attend.
Originally focusing on fashion design and the commercial art business when living in Korea, new artist Miuh Yang moved to Vancouver and was quickly taken by the city’s flowers, trees, and greenery. The influence of Vancouver’s natural surroundings inspired Miuh to take her love of fabric, texture and nature and create art. Miuh’s delicately designed pieces combine fabric, paint, beading, and ribbon. The abundant layers of resplendent flowers, leaves, miscellaneous cut-out shapes, and threaded lines resembling grass are worked together to make her delightful pieces. Similar to that of extraordinarily ornate patchwork quilting, the lustrous plant life, soft breezes, and quietude presented in Miuh’s works are warm and inviting.
Currently living and working in Vancouver, BC, Taiga Chiba, created his "Ancestors and Ancient Life" series using the traditional Japanese Sumi-e painting technique (painting with black ink on rice paper). Playful, spontaneous, and fluid, the artist’s subjects are quirky and eccentric, reminiscent of single-celled organisms being observed through a microscope or fossils of pre-historic creatures who inhabited our world many lifetimes ago. Taiga’s new series of work, “My Return to the Cambrian Sea”, which was produced in the fall of 2005 during an artist residency in Bhopal, India, was inspired by his surroundings.
“The monsoons lasted for three weeks in September. I had a flood in my flat. It was very humid. My clothes would never dry. I noticed the layers of betel nut chewing tobacco which had been spat on the white building walls. This gave me the idea to use a syringe to eject liquid colours onto the plate as if spitting it on the wall. One day, an artist brought me fabric dyes from the market. I played with the dyes and water on the plexiglass plates. The results were the Cambrian period scenes of the water as the origin of plants and animals”. In viewing the artist’s works, one cannot help but question the origins of life and our existence in the daily world. A printmaker for over 30 years, Taiga Chiba has a master of fine arts from Concordia University in Montreal and received his early arts training in Japan.
Art Beatus, with
a location in Vancouver, Canada and two locations in Hong Kong,
showcases international art with a focus on contemporary Chinese art.
Art Beatus
(Vancouver) is located in the Nelson Square Office Tower at 108 – 808
Nelson Street. For more information, please contact Media
Relations, Tamla Mah by email to info@artbeatus.com
or by telephone at 604.688.2633.
