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SCAD Gallery opens in Hong Kong with premiere exhibition, "Generation SCAD"

Generation SCAD, SCAD Gallery, Hong Kong, 2010

SCAD Gallery, located in Central’s art district at 30-32 Wyndham St., debuts its inaugural exhibition March 15.

Published: Mar 10, 2010

First exhibition at new gallery features original work created by more than 20 SCAD student, professor and alumni artists from around the world

HONG KONG—SCAD, the most comprehensive art and design university in the world, is pleased to announce the opening of SCAD Gallery, the university’s new Hong Kong gallery and exhibition space. Located in Central’s art district at 30-32 Wyndham Street, SCAD Gallery debuts its inaugural exhibition, "Generation SCAD," to the public March 15.

"Generation SCAD" features more than 30 original works by SCAD student, professor and alumni artists from around the world. A range of media will be on display, including site-specific installations, motion graphics, animation, painting, printmaking, photography and illustration. The exhibition runs through May 31 and is free and open to the public.

“'Generation SCAD' offers a sampling of the very best SCAD talent, and gives rise to new creative dialogues about contemporary art and design,” said SCAD Hong Kong Executive Director for External Relations Elizabeth Rowan. “We are excited to meaningfully contribute to Hong Kong’s growing international fine arts community, from debuting SCAD’s emerging student artists to sharing our accomplished professors and alumni who have shown their work at some of the most prestigious museums and galleries around the world.”

SCAD alumnus and Shanghai native Caomin Xie, who earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the China Academy of Arts in Beijing in 1998 and Master of Fine Arts degree in painting from SCAD in 2001, is showing five paintings in the exhibition. Xie’s bold, evocative work takes an in-depth look at how media and painting have evolved in the dialogue of contemporary art. In addition to the formal movements of shape, line and color, Xie’s paintings move visually between religious and media-driven imagery. With a careful overlapping of two images, Xie’s paintings have a vibrant quality that suggests viewers are seeing a “still image” on a television screen.

Xie has shown his work at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery in Washington, D.C.; RX Gallery in San Francisco, California; Ethan Cohen Gallery in New York City; Galerie Barthe & Senarclens in Geneva, Switzerland; and Gallery 55 and the Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art in Shanghai, China.

Fellow SCAD artist Lucha Rodriguez, a Master of Fine Arts candidate in printmaking from Caracas, Venezuela, presents the site-specific work “Mega Melo Creaturette.” In the piece, created from hand-cut paper and vinyl, images arise from the surface of the paper, extending and floating as if liberated from gravity. The shadows cast by the multiple paper applications create an intricate, seductive space that emerges before the viewer.

“Lucha’s work blends beautifully tapered white shapes with vibrant splashes of color,” said Laurie Ann Farrell, SCAD’s executive director of exhibitions and curator for Generation SCAD. “Her work bridges gaps between the dreamy realm of her cut outs and the avant-garde nature of her painting installations.”

Rodriguez has shown her work in Mexico, India, France and the United States.

With the opening of SCAD Gallery, the university now operates 12 galleries in the United States, France and Hong Kong, with an annual exhibitions calendar featuring a range of work by talented SCAD students, professors, alumni and renowned visiting artists. Over the past decade, SCAD galleries have hosted exhibitions featuring work by such internationally renowned artists as Andy Warhol; Christo and Jean-Claude; Kader Attia; Cao Fei + Map Office; and Karim Rashid.

SCAD Gallery hours are 10:30 a.m.–7:30 p.m., Monday through Saturday.

SCAD will open SCAD Hong Kong at the former North Kowloon Magistracy Building in September 2010. Courses of study are registered with the Hong Kong Education Bureau. The university will offer bachelor’s and master’s degrees, pending U.S. approval by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.

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