Posted by ernie on April 22, 2008 – 11:36 am

The Chinese Culture Center Online Gallery is the network encouraging exhibitions of Chinese and Chinese American artists and curators. It’s a part of The Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco, a non-profit organization established to “foster the understanding and appreciation of Chinese and Chinese American art, history, and culture in the United States.”

As the gallery is geared toward artists of both Chinese and American decent, it’s important that the network can be clearly understood in both English and Chinese — and the Network Creator has taken advantage of the language editor to promote a cross-cultural experience. As a result, artists have been uploading images of their paintings, photographs, papercuts and sculptures for a virtual gallery of sorts: Read More »

ArtSlant Review

LURE: Installation Art by Beili Liu

Lure: Chinese-American Contemporary Artist Beili Liu Explores the Ties that Bind Lovers
Chinese Culture Center
750 Kearny Street, 3rd Floor, San Francisco, CA 94108
May 9, 2008 - July 5, 2008

Lure is the inaugural exhibit in the Chinese Cultural Center’s new Xin Rui (fresh, sharp) series, showcasing contemporary Chinese-American artists. Beili Liu, who teaches in Michigan, has a national reputation —she recently created an installation for the Djerassi Foundation in Woodside, for example— and her elegant, beautiful work often treats Chinese-American biculturalism, drawing on tradition, but in a contemporary and cosmopolitan manner. Lure, the large installation that dominates the gallery, is a swath of red flowerlike discs suspended mid-air, quivering with the faintest breeze; the viewer stands as if in a field of swaying poppies, or by a pond of undulating lily pads. Each of the thousands of flowers is a spiral of red thread coiled around a needle and hung from the ceiling; the loose ends of each flower coil dangle onto the floor in whorls and loops, but each is connected with another flower, illustrating the Yuan fen belief that lovers are connected from birth by the old man under the moon, Yue Lao, by an invisible red thread and that they will inevitably be united, regardless of obstacles. Read More »

In response to the 8.0 earthquake in China’s Sichuan’s province, the Chinese Culture Center of San Francisco strongly extends its support to the families and everyone affected by this devastating disaster.

We ask supporters of the Chinese Culture Center and all the people in the Bay Area to help with our efforts to bring awareness and resources to earthquake relief efforts. Please go to our direct website dedicated to these efforts.

CCC is partnering with our peer organizations to assist in fundraising efforts with relief agencies to support these families and victims of the China earthquake. We will make these resources available on our website for those wishing to donate to this cause. Read More »

By Traci Vogel
Published: May 14, 2008

According to a Chinese legend, all children are born with an invisible red string connecting them to their soul mates. Throughout life, the string grows shorter, drawing the lovers closer and closer. The thread may tangle, but it will never break. Artist Beili Liu takes the concept of this “red thread of fate” and spins it, quite literally, in “Lure,” her current installation at the Chinese Culture Center. She has fashioned the thread into flat disks, which hang from the ceiling and appear to swarm toward the viewer like a river of red blood cells rushing through the gallery space. Even without the resonance of the legend, the installation evokes the feeling of love, its biological imperative (with their little tails, the red disks could be sperm), and its ineffable nature. Are these red disks souls? Or viruses? As they sway in the wind created by viewers, they certainly seem to be alive. Liu, who has crafted works out of salt crystals and dripped wax, excels in installations that emit a presence beyond their boundaries. “Lure” is emotional, meticulous, and, yes, beautiful.”
- SF Weekly

( 本報記者黃偉江三藩市報道 )

不到現場，怎麼都無法想像，昨天一位年逾六十的華人民間樂手如何用胡蘆絲與一批西方即興現代舞蹈家，在天橋上用一根紅線來演繹「惑」的故事。

先由紅絲綢登場，然後由面化為線，一根根紅線隨著身體舞動而在天橋上縱橫交錯。因為是初次排練，記者便成了現場唯一的觀眾，也就可以舉著相機，和舞者一起，隨著笛聲的韻律和節拍，在天橋上旁若無人的仰臥翻滾，同時隨心所欲的按下快門。 Read More »

( 本報記者黃偉江三藩市報道 )

三藩市中央地鐵公共藝術項目的申報通過將近一個月的努力，在中華文化中心和華協中心的幫助下，到昨天為止，20多名華裔藝術家在網上完成了華埠有史以來最大型的公共藝術項目申報。

華協中心資深社區策劃員林梁淑萍表示，今天是中央地鐵公共藝術項目申報的最後一天，在華藝攝影學會等組織的大力支持下，為華裔藝術家參與主流社會的公共藝術項目做出了有益的嘗試。 Read More »

The Chinese Culture Center is pleased to present a new art exhibition series, Xin Rui (pronounced as “shin ray”). The title of the series is significant, ‘xin’ meaning ‘new’ and “rui’ meaning ‘sharp’, as it embodies both the type of art and artists that the series aims to feature.
Xin Rui highlights the work of exceptional Chinese and Chinese American artists in the U.S., whose work is unrecognized, or under recognized, in the U.S. In keeping with the themes of ‘new’ and ‘sharp’, the series will focus on the artists’ most recent works. Artworks will all have been created within the past year and half (18 months) before their exhibition at the Chinese Culture Center Gallery, with a special emphasis placed on debut pieces. Read More »

( 本報訊 )

三藩市藝術委員會，中華文化中心和華協中心合作舉辦中央地鐵公共藝術項目講座，諴意邀請灣區華裔藝術家參與這項華埠有史以來最大型的公共藝術項目，屆時主辦單位會以廣東話和國語詳細講解參加中央地鐵公共藝術計劃的申請程序。

提供有效技術性幫助

主辦單位希望透過一連串的中文講座，協助華裔藝術家解決語言，文化及電腦科技的障礙，鼓勵華裔藝術家勇踴躍參加。三藩市藝術委員會將發展一個全面的藝術項目總規劃，反映此新運輸系統所在之社區的豐富文化和歷史。主辦單位鼓勵新興和富有經驗的華裔藝術家能參加為中央地鐵創作藝術。並主動邀請世界各地的華裔藝術家參與，包括國際著名的北京藝術家徐冰和灣區藝術家劉虹。 Read More »

Careers & Ed: The Roots of it all

Bay Area program helps Chinese Americans find their identity

By Candice Chan

› culture@sfbg.com

Standing at the gate of my great-grandfather’s house in southern China, I was dumbfounded by how similar the gate looked to that of a house near my own. But that seemed to be the only parallel to my home. As I stood on the street in my trendy designer jeans and swanky flats, all I could think about was how out-of-place I was there, and how dissimilar I felt from the young woman my age holding a baby a few feet from me.

It brought up all the quintessential second generation questions I’ve always hated to ask myself: Where do I belong? Am I more American or more Chinese? Read More »

3/17/08-6/13/08：Chinese Culture Center Online Gallery (www.cccgallery.org) is proud to present the first exhibition. Selected from the online gallery and curated by Artsource Consulting, Manli Chao (San Jose, CA), Yumei Hou (San Francisco, CA), Feng Jin (Alameda, CA), Arthur Mu-Sen Kao (San Jose, CA), Yuan Li (Walnut Creek, CA), Sue Tom (San Francisco, CA), Leland Wong (San Francisco, CA) and Yueying Zhong (Marin County, CA)’s works are on display at the Mills Building, located on 220 Montgomery Street. For more information, please contact Artsource Consulting at 415-399-0333 x 15

The Chinese Culture Center Online Gallery offers a window to view artworks created by Chinese artists to gain exposure for their artworks. Regardless the location, one can easily access the galley of Chinese art, preview exhibitions, artists portfolios, projects, talks and seminars.

中華文化中心電子畫廊為華裔藝術家提供了一個窗口，使其作品得到更多的關注。無論你身在何方，都可以通過網上畫廊，欣賞中華藝術，瀏覽展覽，藝術家作品，論壇以及講座。 Read More »