Of Hybrids & Horror: Interview with Howie Tsui

This is my final project from the "Video1" course I took this semester as part of my Film Studies minor. It was a great experience working on it, endless hours of editing and re-shoots included :P, and it was especially awesome getting to meet Howie Tsui, an artist that I really admire.

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3rd Year Painting Final: Damsels in Ambivalence

So I'm at the end of my third year (only one year to go! I'm freaking out a little!) and I have a bunch of stuff to post in the next few weeks, including some stuff from last semester that I never got around to posting..

I chose the title "Damsels in Ambivalence" partially because I had to name the files on my computer in order to easily find them in the future, and partially because I am somewhat ambivalent towards these paintings at the moment. I like the way they turned out formally (I've been experimenting with Liquin and Galkyd mediums and i loooove them!) but I have mixed feelings about how I treated the subject matter. I was aiming for something that looked almost tacky in its overly saturated ornamentation and patterning; a kind of self-orientalist spectacle. But my class critique left me with the feeling that they don't read that way without knowing the context of my intent. I want my paintings to speak for themselves, but I think these ones are sending mixed messages.

I guess my main concern for next year is dealing with figurative content in my paintings, whether it's being less illustrative, using less loaded symbols, or just less figuration overall..


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"Damsels in Ambivalence"
Three 19"x36" panels, oil on canvas, 2011


1st panel detail


also 1st panel detail

sarah xoxo