Christian J Hansen is an American artist who has been living in Taiwan since 2010. He is currently working on my MFA at Taipei National University of the Arts. He held his first art show in kindergarten, when he made animal sculptures out of newspaper, egg cartons, and anything else he could find. He made tickets for his classmates but, after his mom told him he couldn’t invite them, he invited his family instead. In high school, he entered one of his paintings into a class exhibition, but it was politely rejected. He takes imagery from variety visual traditions and mixes them with classical themes in modern settings.
Reflections on Colourful Universe, Visual Dialogues
Red Room was full of colour in February. Christiana Chien and Todd (Hack) Hackwelder opened their Visual Dialogues exhibition Colourful Universe on Feb, 12th, 2017. This was Christiana’s first show.
Christiana’s colourful Pollockesque paintings are strong and powerful, textured and layered. One could feel the raw emotion and passion she puts into her painting as it explodes onto the canvas. An amazing showing of her work for her first show.
Hack’s Plus-man paintings filled the walls, was dancing, listening to Reggae music, the colours of the Jamaican flag could be seen in a painting installation on the floor. With his noodle like body he twisted in all sorts of shapes and on all kinds of surfaces. Pot lids hung from the ceiling, skateboards, clocks and of course, canvas. And what Colourful Universe could be complete without Aliens. We had those too. A new series by Hack made for this show.
Colour filled the Red Room and for a time it was like living on some sort of rainbow planet.
If you missed it check out the pictures here.
by Charles Haines
