Memory Exhibition

Reviewed by World Journal

Boston, USA

10-19-2017

楊澍個展讓「記憶」具象呈現

記者唐嘉麗／波士頓報導 2017年10月19日

楊澍在波士頓美術館圖書館展出「記憶」系列作品。(楊澍提供)

楊澍用葡萄籐和托斯卡尼葡萄酒創作有如中國書畫捲軸的立體作品。(楊澍提供)

華裔女畫家楊澍「記憶」(Memory)個展現正在波士頓美術館Wm Morris Hunt紀念圖書館舉行，15幅畫作以不同系列和表現方式呈現藝術家對抽象「記憶」概念的具象表現。

楊澍說，記憶難以捉摸、十分脆弱，經常模糊不清，雖然一逝而過，卻永遠留存。「記憶線」( memory threads )系列，以染色和扭曲的衛生紙為創作材料，有著記憶容易溶解和破碎的意味。

以「記憶」為創作主題，源於她95歲、患有阿茲海默症的母親。楊澍說，母親虛構和快樂地處理過往的「記憶」，活在意想不到的快樂往事中。「記憶線」中的粉色主調，象徵母親返老還童回到少女時期的純真，以及愛美的模樣；用美麗脆弱的染色衛生紙做創作材媒，要表達「時間：是記憶線從清晰理性過度到混亂分散和迷失過程」的意念。

「記憶」系列中也有幅楊澍2011年獲得波士頓美術館學院旅遊獎學金，赴義大利托斯卡尼 (Tuscany)旅遊後的創作。她用葡萄籐創作有如中國草書的3D對軸，用托斯卡尼葡萄酒繪出有如國畫落款印章的名字和工作室名稱，作品有趣又有創意。

11幅「記憶」系列作品外，還有每個筆劃都與同步吟誦創作的「誦經」系列三幅作品，以及回收茶葉與咖啡渣創出的一幅有如山水畫的作品。

在台灣時師從國畫大師傅狷夫習畫的楊澍曾從事電腦業。中年後重拾畫筆，從國畫出發、修習探究現代藝術，逐漸轉至意象和當代畫。勤於創作之餘，她在波士頓美術館教授國畫、在塔芙茨大學的美術館學院教導當代畫。她說，此次畫展算是「記憶」系列三年創作的總結。傳統書畫的訓練和功底始終在那裡，不經心不刻意，總是表露在作品中。用當代畫法呈現中國山水是下一個創作方向，對她來說，是非常自然的回歸與選擇。

楊澍畫展地址：300 Massachusetts Ave., Boston 。展期至12月14日。

Translation:

Chinese painter Sue Yang’s "Memory" exhibition is currently at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts William Morris Hunt Memorial Library. These 15 paintings showcase the artist's unique and creative approaches to the concept of abstract memory within her series of works.

Sue Yang pointed out that memory can be elusive, very fragile, often blurred, and, although momentary and fleeting, is forever retained. Her "Memory threads" series feature dyed and twisted toilet paper for the creation of materials which, like memory, can easily dissolve, fade and fray.

For the creation of her "Memory" theme, Sue Yang drew inspiration from her 95-year old mother who suffers from Alzheimer’s disease. Her mother is able to cope with her "memory" by living in an unexpectedly happy past. The triptych work "Time",in a pink tone, symbolizes her mother’s ability to regress back to her girlish innocence and youthful appreciation of beauty. The beautifully fragile dyed toilet paper creates the medium for expressing "Time: the memory thread from clear and rational to excessive chaos and the process of loss ".

This "Memory" series includes one diptych “Tuscany”. Sue Yang won the SMFA Traveling Fellowship in 2011 and toured Italy including Tuscany which inspired her diptych. Incorporating grape vines, she created 3-D art imitating a pair of Chinese cursive calligraphy scrolls. Her Chinese painting name seal and studio name seal, are all done using Tuscan wines. The resulting work is both innovative and playful.

Besides 11 pieces of the "Memory" series, the three "Chanting" works were created in which each individual stroke was executed with a simultaneous chant recitation. Also one landscape artwork is included using recycled tea and coffee grounds.

In Taiwan, Ms. Sue Yang studied under the Chinese painting master, Fu Chun-fu. She was actually first employed in the computer industry for years. In middle age, she resumed her career in art. Starting with Chinese brush painting, she then studied and explored modern art, gradually transitioning to image and contemporary and conceptual art. In addition to her own creative work, she teaches Chinese painting at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston as well as contemporary painting at the School of Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University. This exhibition summarizes the "Memory" series of her three years of creativity. Her traditional painting and calligraphy skills are ever present in these works, albeit inadvertently and never deliberately. For her, using contemporary painting to show the Chinese landscape is the next creative direction, a very natural return and choice.

Sue Yang Art Exhibition Address: 300 Massachusetts Ave., 2nf Floor Boston 617-369-3385. Extended to December 14.2017.

Main Library Directions

The William Morris Hunt Memorial Library is located on the second floor of Horticultural Hall, which is located across Massachusetts Avenue from Symphony Hall.

The William Morris Hunt Memorial Library

Horticultural Hall, 2nd Floor

300 Massachusetts Avenue, Boston, MA 02115

http://www.mfa.org/collections/libraries-and-archives/current-library-exhibition