Born in Taiwan, Rachel Chou embraced her artistic ability from a young age. A fan of the outdoors, she enjoyed painting landscapes and murals. After her childhood, Rachel moved to Vancouver, where she studied animation at the Centre for Digital Imaging and Sound. She has freelanced as an illustrator and graphic designer.
Earlier this year, she explored Australia for six months. Since then, she has moved back to Taiwan and is immersing herself in art and music. Rachel thrives on the creativity that life drawing extracts from her. The unpolished figures she captures reflect a raw energy that photography cannot replicate. She also wants to use different media to express her views on society and the environment.
Rachel Chou rachelhchou@yahoo.ca
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
