Double Square 双方藝廊

Double Square Gallery is delighted to be part of the One Art Taipei 2023, which will be presented at Hotel Metropolitan Premier Taipei from January 13 (Fri.) to 15 (Sun.), 2023. With “The First Light” as the theme, Double Square Gallery will showcase outstanding works by five superb artists from Taiwan and abroad, including Chien-Jung Lin (TW), Chuan-Chu Lin (TW), Li-Ying Huang (TW), I-Chin Liao (TW), and Miyuki Yokomizo (JP). The exhibition invites the audience to revisit the origin of art with the artists to perceive their original intention and beauty of artistic creation. Chien-Jung Lin’s work visualizes the inexpressible things in everyday life as tangible forms, using objects to reconstruct the rudimentary forms of his own projections. Chuan-Chu Lin and Li-Ying Huang both draw their inspiration from nature, and utilize painting as a medium to convey the changing layers and unadorned simplicity of sceneries. I-Chin Liao and Miyuki Yokomizo use abstract painting as their form of expression to document accumulated time and space on canvas. Double Square Gallery looks forward to constructing a space of dialogue between the audience and the works through this exhibition, which will lead the audience to a place of inner tranquility and light through art at this warming early spring.

Chien-Jung Lin specializes in amalgamating light bulb and sculpture, using his ingenious combination to embody the indescribable elements in life. Through mimetic objects and environmental installations, he reconstructs a blank canvas for self-projection. Some of his works have endearing appearances that remind people of toys. Chuan-Chu Lin begins from his sense of body. Through profound experiencing, he presents his works in various media, from painting, land art projects, performance, animation to writing. The daily perception and reflection have led him to the dedication to transparent his life and his art. In other words, he aims to express his care in the flow of nature through his works of art.

Li-Ying Huang breaks through the usual measures learnt from his past trainings in sketching, instead, he accumulates the traces deeper as the light being more intense. Looking the works from different angles, the appearance of the stone remains changing. As such, Huang combines his observation and imagination, so as to organize the whole new world in his works of art. I-Chin Liao adopts an approach of abstract expression to interpret her personal experiences. In an intuitive way, she engages in a dialogue with the canvas, using paint of different media to emphasize the creative process of each colored brushstroke. As she delineates spatial-temporal dimensions and tension resulting from conflicting emotions, she also shapes the symbols of perceptual memory. Miyuki Yokomizo’s works begin from a simple process. Preferring industrial, rather than natural materials and consists of extreme repetition, a visual event. It exploits ultimate visual capabilities, recalling and arousing uncertainty about what is being looked at. Repetition in quantity, such as geometric patterns, spherical shapes, and vertical and horizontal lines are an essential part of her process.

• Chien-Jung Lin (b.1970) was born in Taichung, Taiwan. He graduated from the Department of Fine Arts of Tung- hai University in 1993, and received his master's degree in 1998 from the Graduate Institute of Plastic Arts of Tainan National University of the Arts. He lives and works in Taichung as a Lecturer in the Department of Interior and Landscape at Feng Chia University. He has won fellowships to join as residence artist in "The Gasworks Artists' Studio" (London) and the "ARCUS Project 2004" (Ibaraki, Japan) in 2002 and 2004 respectively. Lin’s artworks were archived by prestigious museums and institutions: National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Dimension Endowment of Art. His works were exhibited in the United States, Japan, China, Australia, etc.

• Chuan-Chu Lin (b.1963) was born in Wanli, New Taipei City. In 1990, He graduated in B.F.A. from Chinese Cultural University in Taipei as well as him receiving his M.F.A. in Interdisciplinary Arts from Goddard College in Vermont, the U.S.A in 2003. Besides, He was invited to teach at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2000. During the duration of his twenty-year artist career, he frequently attends group exhibitions in Taiwan, China, and the US. In 2008, he moved back to his hometown. Immersed in nature, he created his well-known work “Landscape Journal” series. As a literato and as a farmer, Lin subtly enjoys the details of life and the sound of nature.

• Li-Ying Huang (b.1993) is a Changhua born, Taipei-based artist. He graduated with a master’s degree in fine arts from National Taiwan University of Arts. In 2019, Huang awarded both Kaohsiung Award and CTBC Arts Award. He has been invited to several group exhibitions in Taipei, and has held three solo exhibitions in the same year awarded. The exhibitions are respectively The Truthy Stone, located in NTUA Nine Single Arts Practice Space and USR 329, and S.S Project, located in Hsinchu 241 Art Gallery. Huang uses his intuition to perceive from stones, that were born in nature. By gradually adding up layers of the pencil traces, he seeks for the sense of mysterious and specialty in his works.

• I-Chin Liao (b.1987) was raised in Taipei, Taiwan. She earned her B.F.A. in fine arts in Tainan Technology University in 2009. In 2013 she had graduated in M.F.A. from Academy of art university, San Francisco. She had an internship at Emmanuel Fremin Gallery in New York in 2017. In 2016 and 2019, I-Chin earned chances to go to Korea and Hungary for artist residency program. She pays attention to social issues, psychological desires and the perception of space-time, and explores the changing perception of life through natural image and form, philosophy, poetry, dreams and the subconscious mind.

• Miyuki Yokomizo (b.1968) was born in Tokyo, Japan. Miyuki Yokomizo graduated from Tama Art University, Department of Sculpture. Fellow for the Japanese Agency for Cultural Affairs Program of Overseas Study for Upcoming Artist’s program. Major exhibitions include “criterium 37” (Art Tower Mito, 1998), “Plastic Age: Art and Design” (Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, 1998), “Slanting House” (Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, 2002), “Purloined Nature” (Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art, 2003), and “Passage to the Future: Art from a New Generation in Japan” by the Japan Foundation (Travelled in the world, 2004-2019), among others.