Tattfoo Tan
Trained as a graphic designer, I turned to a visual arts based practice in 2000 as a more immediate, direct, and effective way of exploring issues related to individualism, communities and continually blurring the boundaries between art and life. Allan Kaprow stated: “The modernist practice of art is more than the production of artworks; it also involves the artist’s disciplined effort to observe, engage, and interpret the processes of living, which are themselves as meaningful as most art, and certainly more grounded in common experience.” In fact they are common experience. As in my previous professional undertakings, I prefer to work corroboratively. I use multiple mediums and platforms to engage audience to participate and explore ideas about individualism, communities and continually blurring the boundaries between art and life.
2006 PONDering, Peng Gallery, solo show, Philadelphia, PA
2006 Passage, Cheryl McGinnis Gallery, NYC, NY
2006 Tattfoo Tan New Paintings, Paul Sharpe Contemporary Art,
NYC, NY
2006 REPETITION negotiating the irrationalities, ArtSpace@16,
Malden, MA
2006 Between Two Worlds: Reflections of Contemporary Chinese
Art, Flushing Council on Culture & the Arts, Smithsonian
Institution Affiliations Program, Flushing Town Hall,
Queens, NY
2005 Emerge Six: Aljira A Center for Contemporary Art,
Newark, NJ
2005 The Asian Poster, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2005 TanahAir: The Cultral Hybrid Series, Peng Gallery,
Philadelphia, PA
2004 Affordable Art Fair, Latin Collector, NYC, NY
2004 Secret Garden, David Allen Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2004 Paintings From Within, Paul Sharpe Contemporary Art,
NYC, NY
2003 The Invisible Thread, The Buddhism Project,
Newhouse Contemporary Art, Staten Island, NY
2002 Williamsburg Art and Historical Center, Brooklyn, NY
bibliography
Interpretation of Nature,
David Hsieh, World Journal, April 18, 2006
Scholar Rock - reflection and contemplation,
Mike Liu, Sing Tao Daily, April 10, 2006
Repetition, building new artistic play ground at Artspace@16,
Sing Tao Daily, March 20, 2006
Between Two Worlds, group show in Flushing in celebration of Lunar New Year, Sing Tao Daily, January 31, 2006
Between Two Worlds, a group show of five Chinese Artist,
Richard Liang, World Journal, February 1, 2006
A Multicultural Sampler,
Benjamin Genocchio, The New York Times, December 25, 2005
Art Review, Holland Cotter,
The New York Times, December 9, 2005
A Home for an Artist, and for Art,
Fred A. Bernstein, The New York Times, November 27, 2005
Asian Artist is Leading Contemporary in Staten Island,
Mike Liu, Sing Tao Daily, November 28, 2005
Tattfoo Tan: Tanah Air: The Cultural Hybrid Series,
Roberta Fallon, Philadelphia Weekly, April 13-19, 2005
Paper World at Peng, Roberta Fallon, www.fallonandrosof.com/artblog, November 29, 2004
Carving Out a Cultural Corner in Staten Island,
Sarah Wyatt, New York Sun, November 16, 2004
Islands Hopping, Brian Glaser, Visual Arts Journal,
School of Visual Arts Magazine, Fall 2004
Finding Surprises as They Are Turned Up by the Karma Wheel, New York Times, Holland Cotter, November 7, 2003
A Poetry of Transience, Shambhala Sun, March 2004
Artist Designer Launches in House Island Gallery, Michael Fressola, Staten Island Advance, February 23, 2003
Other 13 x 19 inches
Other 13 x 19 inches
Painting 22 x 18 inches
Painting 60 x 40 inches
by artist Adam Simon
and commissioned by
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