LIA SUMMER SHOW, 26th of July 2013

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Opening: 26th of July at 7 pm 

Jazz concert: with Paul Lapp (Standup bass) and Vincent Bababoutilabo (German flute)
LIA- Spinneristrasse 7, hall 18, 2nd floor

Opening Hours: Saturday, 27th of July 11am-6 pm 

We would cordially like to invite you to the Summer Show taking place at the Leipzig

International Art Programme/ Spinnerei Leipzig. The awardees from the New York

Academy of Art: Krista Smith, Alicia Brown, Shangkai Yu, as well as Barbara

Cartier (Argentina), Bianca Tainsh (Australia) and Aika Furukawa (Japan) will show

their works made during their residency stay. After the opening at 7 pm a jazz

concert by Paul Lapp and Vincent Bababnoutilabo will take place.

Awardees:
Krista Smith (Canada, NYAA)
Alicia Brown (Jamaica,NYAA)
Shangkai Kevin Yu (Taiwan,NYAA)
Tim Buckley (USA, NYAA)
Barbara Cartier (Argentina)
Bianca Tainsh (Australia)
Aika Furukawa (Japan)


We cordially thank LIA main partner BMW, the US-American Konsulate Leipzig,

the Cultural Office of the City of Leipzig, the New York Academy of Art as well

as the Japanese Agency for Cvultural Affairs for their kind support.

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LIA guest artists  talk about their work:

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Alicia Brown:

"My work is a visual performance, depicting a sub- culture in Jamaica. I am examining the phenomenon of hair dressing as a ritual, where women on the streets of Downtown Kingston Jamaica openly display what most persons would consider a private act. They transform their façade by adorning themselves with hair extensions, wigs and piercings as a form of fashion statements. I am interested in issues such as colonialism, cross culture, mass media, dancehall culture and their influence in constructing Jamaican/Caribbean identity.  I am approaching the idea of hair adornment as a mode of constructing identity, through a series of self-portraits."  

Krista Smith:

"My need to observe, analyze, even scrutinize female form is rooted in personal  experience and insecurity brought on by the constant nagging of American culture, and its set of aesthetic ideals. As a woman painting about women, I continually run into contradictions that challenge me. My aim is to continue in this direction and make paintings that function to confront its viewer about the on-going feminist conversation in society and art. I am searching for more clever ways to make art that reveals a kind of social critique of both the work and its viewer. "

Tim Buckley:

"My current work mixes personal narrative with humor. Very often my own distress is the butt of the joke. Collage is extremely important in the making of these works and allows me to combine personal imagery with contemporary and art historical ideas."

Shangkai Kevin Yu:

"The perceptual and visceral qualities of the different methods of paint handling possess intrinsic symbolic meanings, which are often amplified when these different techniques are contrasted with one another on the same canvas. My work invests itself in finding the right combinations of techniques to capture ideas that emerge from a mixture of an imagined color space, the fleeting sensory experiences in life, and the critical conceptual response to the ways these experiences have been portrayed visually throughout the history of art."

Bianca Tainsh:

„My recent practice consists of social investigations informed through vigorous research using print, electronic and interviewing techniques.  An analytical approach to process results in works that are highly considered and enriched by imagery and concepts from a diversity of sources. My creative explorations reflect particularly on the implications of contemporary life and examine commodification, technology and the environment, whilst balancing these investigations with the consideration of the human need for spirituality, inclusion and the quest for self.“  

Barbara Cartier:

The continuous motion of acts, feelings, thoughts, moods and words that shape the ordinary life is what I explore: the dynamic of human linkages. These are cadences of a natural outcome of a self-paced timeline which I capture in my paintings. When I work, I bring together these elements in a new space/time line, bonding to each other as a medium. There is something about creating an existential space, not physical nor geographical that develops always in torn of oneself and an other being. In this sense, I look into the everyday life, the ordinary where we tame and transform conducts through feelings.

Aika Furukawa:

The presentation of the draping of fabrics and clothes is an important part of European art history. It does not only serve the exact temporal identification of art works, but also allows the painter or the sculptor to present his abilities. The presentation of textiles is also the main component of Furukawa’s work. In her paintings she explores the diverse form of drapery by randomly throwing cloth down. "Everyone changes clothes daily and throws it carelessly into a corner or puts it together neatly. This creates interesting compositions accidentally or intentionally."