14 October to 18 October 2016
Exhibition dates: Friday, 14 October – Tuesday, 18 October 2016 (11am to 8pm daily)
Art Preview: Friday, 14 October 2016, 3 – 6pm
Art Talk and Demonstration: Saturday, 15 October 2016, 3pm
Venue: Visual Arts Centre
To attend the art talk and demonstration session, please RSVP to: info@visualartscentre.sg
Free Admission.
“Why Nude Why Not” is a solo exhibition and book launch by Loh Khee Yew, featuring fifty of his works on nude as an art subject from 1990 – 2016.
This exhibition traces the pre-eminence of the female nude as a dominant creative force in Loh’s works, and his exploration of this theme through a range of different techniques and mediums like ink, conte, pastel, acrylic and mixed media. His main body of work traces the female figure through line and ink, where his expressive lines sculpt the formal beauty of human anatomy. Loh’s constant striving towards the ideal of timeless beauty through the mastering of the line for an eternal form; that is, the human body.
Loh Khee Yew is an artist and pioneer in design education in Singapore. After studying art, design and advertising at the Alberta College of Art in Canada on a Colombo Plan scholarship in the late ‘60s, he returned in Singapore to work in advertising and subsequently pioneered the design curriculum at LASALLE College of the Arts as the dean of the design faculty from 1992 to 1995. As an adjunct lecturer, he conducted cross cultural studies at the Temasek Polytechnic and life drawing classes at NYU Tisch Asia. Concurrently a practising artist with Joseph McNally’s Group 90 artists’ alliance (an arts group committed to the study and artistic representation of the nude), he retired from teaching in 1996 to focus on art-making. Since then, he has become an established Singapore contemporary artist, known for his unmistakable style and his skill at using calligraphic strokes to illustrate the human body.
Silkscreen Workshop & Guided Tour
With this exhibition, Joseph is presenting a one-hour print-making workshop. Participants will be given a guided tour of the exhibition followed by a basic workshop on silkscreen printing. Get to print your own tote bags with a ready-made silkscreen stencil designed by Joseph! Each participant will also take home an exclusive signed postcard.
Cost: $40 per participant (click here to purchase your tickets!)
Date & Time: Saturday, 22 Oct 2016, 2pm – 3pm
Venue: Visual Arts Centre. 10 Penang Road, #01-02 Dhoby Ghaut Green, S(238469)
Visual Arts Centre is an exhibition gallery and art studio at Dhoby Ghaut Green supported by the National Parks Board and the National Arts Council.
Since its initiation on 31 January 2016, the Visual Arts Centre Exhibition Gallery has hosted over two hundred international and local art and design exhibitions, boasting a diverse range of art styles and programmes.
Email:
info@visualartscentre.sg
Phone:
+65 6255 0711
+65 6733 2155
In the Batik Introduction Handkerchief Painting workshop, participants will learn the traditional art of batik, a wax-resist dyeing technique originating from Indonesia. The workshop begins with a brief history and overview of batik, highlighting its cultural significance and various techniques. Participants will then observe a demonstration of applying wax with tjanting tools and dyeing the fabric. Following the demonstration, each participant will design and create their own batik handkerchief, applying wax to create patterns and then dyeing their fabric. The workshop concludes with a group discussion, allowing participants to share their creations and reflect on their learning experience.
