Open Studios with Long-Bin Chen

Saturday, October 25, 2008
Two Sessions: 2:00 PM and 3:00 PM
FREE.

Taiwanese artist Long-Bin Chen, known for using books, newspapers, magazines, and other discarded material as the medium for his sculpture, will demonstrate his dramatic and unique techniques. Chen's Buddha faces, Aztec and Chinese warriors, human figures and land maps are works of extraordinary beauty made out of the detritus from our "paper-society".  Long-Bin Chen's work is on exhibition in Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary.  

Long-Bin Chen
Long-Bin Chen was born in Taiwan where he presently resides, after having lived and studied in New York in the nineties. The theme of the converging of Chinese and American cultures is central to his work, as is the notion of consumerism that now informs both cultures. Bought from trash collectors or gathered from the street, the outdated indexes of modern life, snatched from extinction, are recycled; nothing is destroyed for this art.