Shirley Tse 謝淑妮

A group exhibition of mixed media featuring the works of 14 contemporary artists is open at the Shoshana Wayne Gallery in Santa Monica through December 31, 2016.

Shirley Tse is a contemporary artist and contributor to Akademie X: Lessons in Art + Life. In this film she discusses the importance of amateurism in the creative life.

Soon after arriving from Hong Kong to study at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1990, Shirley Tse abandoned philosophy for visual art, and relocated to Southern California, receiving an MFA from ArtCenter College of Design in 1996. Almost immediately she embraced plastics as material and metaphor. Of late, she has expanded her palette to glass baubles, wire mesh, figurative CelluClay sculptures, and literary texts; this is all on view in Tse’s latest exhibition, “Lift Me Up So I Can See Better,” which is partly inspired by Oscar Wilde’s sad children’s tale “The Happy Prince.” The exhibition will be on view at Shoshana Wayne Gallery in Santa Monica from July 9 through September 3, 2016.

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