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“Nature Songs”, paintings by Yeachin Tsai
September 29, 2021 - October 30, 2021
The Sky Dancer, acrylic on canvas, 70 x 24 inches.
The Lake George Arts Project’s Courthouse Gallery presents Nature Songs, a solo exhibition of paintings by Yeachin Tsai.
View our Online Talk with Yeachin Tsai from October 3, 2021 HERE.
View a Checklist of works in the exhibition HERE.
Read her full BIO HERE, and learn more about her work at https://www.yeachintsaifineart.com. Also, check out this wonderful video on WMHT’s AHA! A House For Arts: Calligraphy Meets Abstraction with Yeachin Tsai , and view Look TV’s recent episode of “Where’s Dayna?” HERE.
Yeachin Tsai’s art swings between the seen world of rhythmic colors and forms, and the unseen world of momentum and energies. While growing up in Taiwan, Tsai studied traditional Chinese brush painting and calligraphy, and she would later incorporate that training into her work after moving to New York. Rather than building up a painting surface, she creates a surface that soaks in paint – canvases prepared with grounds that behave like traditional rice paper, pulling the paint in.
Summer Vibes, acrylic on canvas, 66 x 56 inches.
She says: “I’ve always been intrigued by form, pattern and colors from nature. My interest may have started when I was four years old. I remember seeing the floating, shining dust particles reflecting the sunlight in the stale attic air of my family’s old house. The magic quality of nowness left an unspeakable feeling in my mind… I want to create artwork that is primordial and timeless, ancient yet modern. I wish to catch the symbolism and momentum of the flow. The materials are used to reflect the feelings and perceptions I have experienced in life – the ever changing, transient, fleeting moments of this dynamic, chaotic yet harmonious worl
Yeachin Tsai earned her BFA degree from National Taiwan Normal University, and MFA degree Brooklyn College of the City University of New York. Her recent exhibitions include Blue, Gallery at 46 Green Street, Hudson, NY; Upstate Artists, The Laffer Gallery, Schuylerville, NY; All is Safely Gathered In, Spring Street Gallery, Saratoga Springs, NY; Small Works, 440 Gallery, Brooklyn, NYC, Artists of the Mohawk Hudson Region (2019)Exhibition, The Hyde Collection, NY, The Unusuals, Invitational, The Painting Center, Chelsea, NYC; Printmakers Open Portfolio (part of the Screenprint Biennial 2018), The Opalka Gallery, Albany, NY; Creations: Connections and Collections, Albany Center Gallery, Albany, NY; Article 13, The LAB at Collar Works, Troy, NY; Endless Forms Most Beautiful, Four Person Show, Scarlet Seven Fine Art Gallery, Troy, NY; and Winter Joy, a solo exhibition at Pause Gallery, Troy, New York in 2019. Her work is in numerous collections, including the Art Student League of New York and the New York Public Library.
The Courthouse Gallery is located at the side entrance of the Old County Courthouse, corner of Canada and Lower Amherst Streets in Lake George, NY. Our office & gallery hours during exhibition dates are Wednesday through Friday 12 – 5 pm, Saturday 12 – 4 pm. Other dates and times we can be reached by phone or email: Contact Gallery Director Laura Von Rosk at 518-323-5499 or laura@lakegeorgearts.org. Contact Executive Director Tanya Tobias-Tomis at 518-832-0183 or tanya@lakegeorgearts.org. Visit our calendar for more information.
Please NOTE: Regular Gallery hours may change due to COVID-19 public health mandates. For updates call 518-668-2616, 518-323-5499, or email laura@lakegeorgarts.org.
This exhibition is funded in part by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the New York State Legislature; the Town and Village of Lake George; Price Chopper’s Golub Foundation; 518 Profiles; the Glen & Carol Pearsall Adirondack Foundation, and LGAP members. Please Join us today!
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