Long-Bin Chen, Buddha Hurricane 21 April - 3 June 2006 Frederieke Taylor gallery Long-Bin Chen Buddha Hurricane 21 Apr - 3 June 2006 Opening Friday, 21 April 2006, 6-8pm Frederieke Taylor Gallery is pleased to present Long-Bin Chen, Buddha Hurricane. While our society is becoming increasingly paperless, Taiwan-based artist Long-Bin Chen uses books, magazines, and phonebooks to create complex, beautifully detailed sculptures. They include Buddha heads, human faces, warriors and animals, which at first glance, resemble stone and marble. Chen has also created installations of life-scale hanging angels and human figures, as well as larger-than-life heads one can walk into, made up of approximately one thousand phone books. For this exhibition, Chen will feature an installation in the project space of the gallery where he will create a “hurricane” made out of books and magazines, rising up from the head of the Buddha. This overload of information, literally swirling around the figure of the Buddha, represents this icon of the Buddhist world as the center of all communication. Long-Bin Chen has exhibited widely, in the United States, Germany, Taiwan, Japan and Hong Kong. He has participated in several exhibitions at the Frederieke Taylor gallery and was part of the “The Invisible Thread---Buddhist Spirit in Contemporary Art” exhibition at the Snug Harbor Cultural Center in Staten Island, NY. This past fall, he was a featured artist at Kid Space, Mass MOCA. The artist is currently part of a group exhibition, “Dalai Lama Portrait Project”, organized by the Dalai Lama Foundation, which will travel to Tokyo, Paris, London, Taipei, Berlin, New York, and Los Angeles. Recently published articles include Art & Antiques, November 2004 and Yishu Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, December 2004. A newly published catalogue of Long-Bin Chen’s recent works will be available at the gallery. Gallery hours are: Tuesday-Saturday, 11am to 6pm For further information and visuals, please contact the gallery. Home | Exhibitions | Artists | Contacts