Li Chen
Li Chen is a taiwanese sculptor born in 1963. As a child, he was fascinated with various forms found around him, such as clouds, or the irregularity on walls. He studied arts and crafts throughout high school, and found inspiration in many prominent contemporary artists, such as Chen Hsin-wan, Cheng Chiu-ming and Lee Chin-hsiu. His career began with projects from Buddhist shrines, sculpting traditional Buddha statues of Buddhist and Taoist classics. Further on into his career, he found traditional buddhist sculptures limiting, and began to venture further into body sculpture. His pieces depict a strong understanding of body proportions, and create elements of focus through playing with these proportions. His sculptures conjures up a sense of harmony and softness, as the limbs flow into one another, instilling "the Buddhigst sense of a necessary absence and the Taoist commitment to instilling one's vital Qi". |
Beth Cavner Sticher
Beth Cavener is an American sculptor who hails from Pasadena, California, and now resides in Helena, Montana, where she started her collaborative studio, Studio 740. The daughter of a molecular biologist and an art teacher, her art reflects the many connections between these two disciplines. Fascinated by the natural world around her, she intended to pursue a career in science, but in her last year of college, she switched into Fine Art and graduated with a BA in Sculpture. Though she was trained in the classical atelier style in her undergraduate studies, in her apprenticeship with Alan LeQuire, she became fascinated with the surrealist movement, and other various contemporary artists. All these influences led to her graduate school thesis exhibition, which examined human emotions and psychological portraits through human-scaled depictions of the animal body. With metal armatures, Cavener depicts |