Art Sync is the art project between Western and Eastern culture exchange.

Art Sync is the art project between Western and Eastern culture exchange. Four Taiwanese artists and four NY artists teamed up as partners and spent almost a year to create the works without seeing and knowing each other. A classic formalism is more strongly presented in the selected Taiwanese artists’ work while the New York artists exude a more expressionistic paradigm. The alternate working methods in addition to the different cultural backgrounds of the artists give this collaborative synchronization a richer and more diverse palette to work from.

Art Sync will house works created under a diversity of circumstances: solo and collaborative works, collaborative efforts created during the Art Sync process as well as an in-depth chronology of direct communication among all artists involved. The participating artist teams are Fanny Allié & Hoho Lin, Eric Bessel & Kai-Yuan Tszen, Brad Darcy & Yu-San Huang and MaryKate Maher & Yin-Ling Chin.

In Fanny Allie and HoHo Lin’s collaboration, artists used the images and texts to develop their individual interest. The text from “30 things I know about him” shows Ms. Allie’s curiosity of the other land and culture. Mr. Lin uses the images to respond to Ms. Allie’s questions which bring the NY based viewers to the other place where they might never get chance to visit.

Kai-Yuan and Eric Bessel’s individual and collaborative works shows the logical creating system. On the other hand, the artists team Brad Darcy and Yu-San show free expression in their communication. Both teams answer the original question of Art Sync about what the interaction between classic formalism and expressionistic paradigm is. Kai-Yuan and Eric Bessel constructed the collaborative process with their own policy and Brad Darcy and Yu-San spontaneously respond to each other’s sketch.

MaryKate Maher and Yin-Ling share the life experience and similar interests with each other. Taking each other’s life experience as elements and add them into their own creativity to complete the final production. From the experimental drawings, paintings and video works. Viewers are going to review not only the art works, but also the intercultural story between both artists.

Opening Reception – May 22, 6-8 pm
SoapBox Gallery 636 Dean Street, Brooklyn, NY 11238

Art Sync is Curated by NuNu Hung and Hao-Yi Chen.
The Exhibition is made possible by Taiwan Cultural Affairs.