B. Bender

B. Bender

B. Bender “Burdened” Artist’s Statement The physical, mental or spiritual burden men carry is expressed through the kneeling and crouching poses and gestures explored in this work. The work intends to resonate the notion of a load carried, real or imagined...
B. Gurevich

B. Gurevich

B. Gurevich “Phantasms” Artist’s Statement These dreamscapes allude to the ephemeral and spiritual rather than the concrete. Logic is disrupted as figures float past the cloud-like forms.  Manipulation of scale and surface contributes to the transcendence...
C. Lin

C. Lin

C. Lin “Eternal Return” Artist’s Statement The work is a narrative starting at the bottom, a hellish scene of smoke and sludge evolves up an incline towards a step ladder that takes one to a higher level where piano parts invite one to the beginning of a...
C. Gao

C. Gao

C. Gao “I Am Not Here” 1 5 2 3 4 6 Artist’s Statement By applying thick layers of oil paint over the images of faces, I paint perhaps, portraits of emotional states rather than of those of physical likenesses. Furthermore, obscuring facial features can be...
C. Zheng

C. Zheng

C. Zheng “Catharsis” Artist’s Statement For me, emotions are tangible and visceral. My body reacts to my environment: tears, cramps, breaths, and screams. It’s as if my body is an instrument that chooses to answer the surrounding sounds, with a heightened...