Oui.Gallery HK Introduces Art & Performances by Frank Lee & Kwan Q Li on November 20 Hong Kong — Thursday, November 7, 2019 — Oui.Gallery is based in Hong Kong during months of protest and conflict. Artists producing work respond to the environment. Oui.Gallery Hong Kong announced the opening of Subsumption, an art show and… Continue reading Hong Kong Art Gallery Shows Local Artists in Exhibition Subsumption
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TJ Hughes on Video Games as Art & Keeping a Dream Journal
Oui.Gallery Interviews TJ Hughes from St. Louis. Introduction of the artist TJ Hughes is a game designer, digital artist, and aspiring video artist from Saint Louis, Missouri. He created an experimental food art game called NOUR that is played on a midi fighter. This game is heavily influenced by Asian culture – visuals include bubble… Continue reading TJ Hughes on Video Games as Art & Keeping a Dream Journal
Maryam Mobasseri on Process & Growing up in Iran
Oui.Gallery Interviews Maryam Mobasseri from Hong Kong. Introduction of the artist Maryam Mobasseri (Nooshin Sawyer) was born in 1977, one year before the Islamic revolution of Iran, in Tehran. Her passion for painting was discovered at a very early age. Growing up in Iran during the Iran- Iraq war and being constantly confronted by the… Continue reading Maryam Mobasseri on Process & Growing up in Iran
Artist interview with Dwight Portocarrero
Oui.Gallery Interviews Dwight from his Tribeca studio. Introduction of the artist Dwight Portocarrero is an artist lives and works in New York and Venezuela. He explores the precarious state of our ecosystem through sculpture, living installations and works on canvas. Recently, Oui presented two of his third nature hybrid plant sculptures in his Chinese Evergreen… Continue reading Artist interview with Dwight Portocarrero
OPENCALL for Artwork Proposals
OPENCALL for Artwork Proposals from Contemporary Artists for Oui.Gallery Hong Kong Oui.Gallery invites artists to submit artwork proposals to be considered for an upcoming show, OPENCALL. Oui.Gallery is the only project space in Central Hong Kong and offers a platform for artists to emerge. Artwork proposals are not limited by medium. Artists are encouraged to… Continue reading OPENCALL for Artwork Proposals
P.L.A.N.T. Curatorial Statement
P.L.A.N.T. Organic Art Culture Writing Artworks are P.L.A.N.T.s. They are organically grown by artists. The forms they take depend upon the soil and climate where the seeds are planted. In the latest exhibition, Oui decided to showcase the ‘plants’ we currently have in the gallery. Many of the artists Oui presents such as Aaron Owens… Continue reading P.L.A.N.T. Curatorial Statement
P.L.A.N.T. Organic Art Culture
P.L.A.N.T. Organic Art Culture at Oui.Gallery Oui came up with a concept for exploring both zerowaste and our current art inventory.P.L.A.N.T. is a back-ronym. You must make up your own definition = you may define and redefine waste in countless ways. Waste is human made nature, a human creation. All ‘plants’ are constructed. They are… Continue reading P.L.A.N.T. Organic Art Culture
Mapmaker Aaron Owens Shares Path
Art Speak Oui asked Aaron to write about the current state of his artwork and what it means. This is his un-edited writing. The purpose seems to be to open myself up, share myself through taste. The things I like, the things I am attracted to say something about me in inexpressible ways. And that’s… Continue reading Mapmaker Aaron Owens Shares Path
Oui.Gallery & ONG Records Announce ONG2 Art Grant Recipients
A big congrats to the winners including one of the artists Oui works with 🙂 Can you guess who it is? Read until the end
Mente Morbida (soft mind): Gianluca Crudele’s Statement About His Painting Series
Gianluca Crudele is an Italian painter and designer based in Hong Kong. Currently as part of Oui.Gallery’s Group Exhibition Cantocore, Gianluca has two paintings of a larger series included, “The City Goes On Holiday” and “City Man”. The definition of “Mente Morbida” is something that I hold very dear. In its English translation it means… Continue reading Mente Morbida (soft mind): Gianluca Crudele’s Statement About His Painting Series