Masami Teraoka

For those printmaking fanatics out there, you should look up Masami Teraoka. Even though his works are not techinically a tradition woodblock print, I think you will find his ukiyo-e woodblock style watercolour paintings as equally interesting. I just learned about him from reading the AAP #11 back issue in the office, after having dim suming with cyn, jane and anita (which by the way, is awesome for its cheapness and it's delicioso.) And I have to say, after browsing through his website, this guy really knows how to combine Eastern and Western culture in his art and use sarcasm to create humour in depressed/religious/social subject matters.

Panda Man

I finally got my housing information. A double off-campus apartment at Via Micheli 12. With internet. Yess. Less oversea calls! I still don't know who I will be rooming with. But that doesn't matter, 'cause I get along with just pretty much everyone. YAY!! Off campus apartment with kitchen and internet!! so happy.

Artist of the Day:
Zhao Bandi
Once performance artist turned set/political/ Social photographer.


::love::My kind of artist.

SummerStage with DJ Spooky

SummerStage with DJ Spooky, originally uploaded by Ciao Arrivederci.

SummerStage with DJ Spooky was great. We gave away 300 copies of our current issue and all of our tote bags a hour before the concert had ended. Everyone, including the non-art people, seem to love the idea of an Asian Contemporary art magazine, especially young Indian teenage girls. I personally thinks the reason we were such a big hit is because we got some cute looking guys and girls working for Art AsiaPacific.

Art AsiaPacific, originally uploaded by Ciao Arrivederci.

Of course, having good look is not all fun and games. I had a drunk Argentinian man constantly hitting on me, asking if I like to go to Lincoln Center with him. He claims to be a doctor/psychatrist but I believe otherwise. I tried to persuade him to take a copy of our magazine, but nooo, he just wanted to ask me questions about my personal life. ::Sigh:: I honestly don't know how these people manage to find me. It's not like I have a sign over my head that says avaliable. Elaine told me it's because I look too cute and naivete, and that guys feel a need to take care of me. Well, guess what, Miss Jesse does not need a guy to look over her. And she is not interested in whatever it is you're proposing. So "Back Away Punk" before I cut your hands off. ARGH.

(Sorry, got a little bit sidetracked.)

Anyways, thank you everyone for visiting our humble station. And thank you Angela coming out and spending time with me in the lovely Central Park. It was nice seeing all of you, and especially Roselee Goldberg, in a setting other than a classroom.

this is so freaking awesome. it's monster truck meets baby stroller.

Shi Jinsong
Na Zha Stroller
Stainless steel
2005

Oh Li Wei. You outdone yourself again.

http://www.10chancerylanegallery.com/exhibitions/catalog/2006/LiWei/page1/

Bride Fight at the Lever House looks like fun. I'm probably gonna go there after I get back from Alaska. Does anyone wanna go with me?

Can you say BUNNNNY? i want to nap on the GIANT BUNNY.

Artists of the week

Chinese video artists:

Song Dong
This veteran video artist works in the theme of the surreal versus reality. Her videos often concentrates on illustrating the boundary and the constant back and forth interplay between illusion and substance. Her Cool Boiled Water (1997) presents this very irony by providing the viewers with an opportunity to experience another dimension to the trivial activity of boiling water. Her 1996 Stamping the Water performance is another favorite of this art student. Her cunningness and humor proves she is not only a master of conceptual video art, but also one of the many Chinese succesors of Signore Piero Manzoni.


edit:// I just found out that Song Dong has an exhibition on view in New York City at the Chamber Fine Art Gallery. The show is call The Way of Chopsticks. Go check it out if you get a chance. It's on view until July 28.

Xu Zhen
His video artworks are very intriguing. His video entitled From the Body Interior- Two People Sniffing Each Other is unique in that by repeating the act of smelling and stripping, the artificial projection is capable of making its viewers become sensitive and conscientious of their own and other's boby odors after viewing the first few minutes of the video.

This exhibition at Berlin looks really intense and fun. Too bad it's oversea.

Salon de Expace

Salon de Expace, originally uploaded by Ciao Arrivederci.

Venus (2006)
Cement and Soil Mixture
1" x 2" x 4"
Price: $ 180 (can be negotiated)

it's an adventure

it's official. i booked my ticket to florence. i'll be leaving on the 30th of august and reture on the 29th of december. yep, i'll be spending my christmas backpacking with julie without the family. sure it's not your typical holiday celebration with turkey, cranberries, christmas trees and misotole, but i'm sure it's going to be equally heartwarming and satisfying as sitting at home, eating delicious dinner with the family.

Stone Cold

Chuang Yen Buddhist Monastery at Kent, Upstate New York

some portraits

Confetti

"Blue, green, yellow and purple"
C-Print
Taken in the Chinese Lunar Year Parade (Mott Street, 2006).
Exhibited recently in NYU Spring 2006 open studio.

new discovery

artist of the day: guangzhou born video/photography artist cao fei
check out her works at www.caofei.com or go to "the thirteen" exhibition in PS1 Moma open from 2/26 to 4/24.