Artist: Lishan Chang
Location: Crystal Art Gallery
This exciting multi-media artist, Lishan Chang, invites the viewer to experience a transcendence linking one world to another, via the metaphor window frames linking life events in 2005, and morphing into the realm of the New Year 2006.
Whether a real or imagined frame that defines our culture, we live within a framework in our daily lives, ever changing like the cellular structure in our bodies changes very minute. While a frame limits one’s view of the world, I strive to create an infinity frame of the mind, where the concepts are framed in borderless scenarios, where the possibilities are endless. In a culture where people work diligently to excel in performing within a regimented structure, my goal is to deconstruct the frame, opening one’s imagination to a higher plane of thought where the artistic images within the frame conceptually convey a moment in one’s life.
Lishan Chang is inspired by the Crystal windows and door portfolio, as these products relate to visual frames and entrance pathways between personal spaces and public worlds. Like a movie scene, each advancing frame tells a piece of the story and helps define our perception of the moment, ignite our imagination, and fuel our emotions. This multi-media exhibition combines computer-synthesized music, and visual effects to expand your imagination outside the frame you see before you.
The artist vision is to manipulate common everyday materials, such as plastic wrap, in new ways, to expand our interpretation of objects, and ultimately morph our sense of the moment.
Beginning from year 2003, he applied plastic wrap as a basic medium in his creation. For example, his “shipping to Taiwan”, striated linear tension lines of plastic wrap, to convey the passage of time associated with shipping. Also in 2003, Storage, he locks objects within a protective cocoon like skin, offering viewers a metaphor of internal organs of society, wrapped in a skin of plastic reality.
In 2004, Lishan Chang started to utilize plastic wrap in his photography. He created a womb like environments, where reclining nude human forms appear to be suspended in a weightless reality, where a moment in life is expressed by gravity defying stretched plastic wrap.
Another landscape installation, @ Stacie’s yard, the visual metaphor of viewing nature through a barrier, stretched plastic wrap, that represents the man made structure of one’s life, one is presented with a unique compilation of two images married together. One, the image of nature, and one the reflection back of the viewer and of light, which evokes self-reflection of one’s relationship with nature.
Lishan Chang views himself as part installation artist, and part illusionist. His multi-dimensional installations invite the viewer to experience frameworks as portals to new planes of though with respect to nature and life. His stretched plastic wrap and hard frame structures are infused with ethereal vocals, and electronically illuminated color palettes, touching upon a wide array of the viewers’ senses.
The exhibition, Frame to the Other End, is sponsored by the Crystal Foundation Art Gallery located at 31-10 Whitestone Expressway, Flushing, NY 11354 Tel 718 961 7300 x3233.
