Links

Below is a set of links that I think are really useful, especially the ones to other artists' webpages. Please visit them if you have time, and be inspired too!!

The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
This is the college I attend. Feel free to navigate around it for more information about where I study.

Contemporary Artists
This is a list of contemporary artists. Feel free to browse through them.

Chinese Artists
This website offers a good list of Chinese contemporary artists in China, and I find their works quite fascinating as I can see a clear blend of the traditional Chinese style of art and more modern forms, techniques and subject matter. As I am also Chinese, I find their work inspiring as well, and how well the old can be integrated with the new.

Tim Noble and Sue Webster
These two English artists work mainly with sculptures, using rubbish to construct into a pile of rubbish, but when light shines at a certain angle, the shadow projected becomes a silhouette of figures. I thought that these artists were very interesting in the way that they manipulate something as simple as light.

Do Ho Suh
Another sculpturor, Do Ho Suh is a Korean who deals a lot with ideas of unity, especially in the military force. I find his intricate works extremely interesting and full of meaning, and one can see all the effort he puts into his works.

Bernard Faucon
Bernard Faucon is a photographer, and his work revolves around the fascination of boyhood and strange fantasies. Although some of his works border on the obscene, I find his work quite eye-opening, especially the text art he does on human skin.

Nicola Vruwink
I quite like this artist not because she shares the same name as me, but because her installations are quite magnificent and elaborate. They really capture the sense of freedom, and with all the fabric, one can see the highlights and shadows cast everywhere in a beautiful yet haphazard pattern, which I think is amazing. Again, the use of light here is something that inspires me a lot.

Ben Gest
Gest is another photographer, but he deals with the everyday mundanity of life. He photographs people in awkward times, and these slice-of-life are so realistic yet strangely eerie and bizzare that I can't say anything critical about his artwork. His work reminds me of how I like to take ordinarym, everyday situations and turn them into something to be celebrated and revered (though this is mostly found in my writings rather than in my art pieces.

Glenn Brown
Glenn Brown takes famous portrait paintings and imitates them, only to manipulate the paint in such a way that it completely distorts the figure's face to something much more hideous and sadistic. His idea is about copying and when something is perceived as 'original' or not, which I think is a pretty unique concept. His painting technique is very precise and detailed as well, rendering a texture that is unique to his art.

Francis Bacon
For one of my courses, I was pretty interested in the human psyche and what causes the strange impulses of violence or anger that people have now and then, so I looked into Bacon's artwork. Most of his art is quite eerie and emotional, and I found his work quite exciting.

Stephanie Brooks
Stephanie Brooks uses a lot of text in her art, and while her artwork may seem more like writing than artwork, I think that she has produced art in quite a different way from other art with text that I've seen. Her artwork made me think a lot about the English language and how versatile it can be, so I think that she did in some way influenced my artwork.

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