Exhibition
台北·仁愛 展館 RenAi Gallery
Bluerider ART 8周年特展
2022年新年到，我們一起平安跨越了新的一年。Bluerider ART 迎來成立的8周年，將於台北．仁愛盛大歡慶推出8周年特展，以象徵新年好運的金、銀、紅、白、藍、綠、橘、紫色為主題，展出精選Bluerider代理藝術家作品及近期全新創作，更有「發發發 888」8周年藝術家支持限定優惠，回饋大眾，等待您來一探驚喜。
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參展藝術家 Artist
Willi Siber 威利·希伯
Reinoud Oudshoorn 雷諾·奧德霍恩
Carol Prusa 卡蘿·普魯莎
Nick Veasey 尼克·維西
Marck 馬克
Caro Jost 卡蘿·傑斯特
Peter Krauskopf 彼得·克勞斯科夫
Thierry Feuz 西瑞·菲茲
Angela Glajcar 安格拉·格拉札
Wolfgang Flad 沃夫岡·福拉德
Jan Kaláb 楊·克拉
Tim Freiwald 提姆·弗萊瓦德
Axel Anklam 艾克瑟·安克拉姆
Almudena Pintado 阿慕黛娜·品塔多
Rine Boyer 凌·波兒
Jessica Drenk 潔西卡·准珂
Christiane Grimm 克里斯蒂安·格琳
Bryan Ida 布萊恩·伊達
Pojui Lin 林伯瑞
Frank Maier 法蘭克·邁爾
Dylan Martinez 迪倫·馬汀尼茲
Tanja Rochelmeyer 譚雅·侯荷麥爾
Dirk Salz 迪爾克·薩爾茲
Isabella Kohlhuber 伊莎貝菈·科赫胡貝爾
Ramiro Smith Estrada 拉米羅·史密斯·埃斯特拉達
Sebastian Masegosa 賽巴斯汀·馬賽戈薩
NONOTAK studio
Amy Van Winkle 艾美·凡·溫克
Bluerider ART 8周年特展 –
Bluerider ART 台北．仁愛
展期：2022.1.8 – 2022.3.31
Tue.-Sat., 9am – 6pm
10F., No. 25-1, Sec. 4, Renai Rd., Taipei
Artist
Willi Siber 威利·希伯
(German, b. 1949）
Born in Upper Swabia, the center of Baroque art history, Willi Siber studied art history at the University of Stuttgart, Germany. His creations inherited the fluidity, theatricality, and splendid visual effects of Baroque art also incorporated a contemporary perspective. Siber once said "My creations stem from change." Over the long artist career he not only excels in painting, but also known for art objects , installations, sculptures. Using wood, steel, epoxy resin, exploring the malleability of materials, focusing not just on the aesthetic expression of materials he constantly research, validation, and overturning of established perceptions, breaking through the limitations of materials. His playfulness with colors further highlights his concise style. Willi Siber's exhibitions have spanned across Europe and the United States, his works permanently collected by German Federal Parliament, the German Embassy in Argentina, Deutsche Bank, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Städtisches Kunstmuseum in Singen, and private art museums Kunstwerk Sammlung Klein, Museum Ritter and private collectors worldwide.
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Reinoud Oudshoorn 雷諾‧奧德霍恩
（Netherland, b. 1953）
Reinoud Oudshoorn 荷蘭當代極簡藝術家，畢業於荷蘭阿爾特茲藝術大學(AKI)，現 居住創作於阿姆斯特丹，執教於荷蘭皇家藝術學院。Reinoud Oudshoorn 以構築空間的極簡雕塑著稱，主張「雕塑應創造比作品本身更大的空間」，「消失點」是每件作品的 開端，盡情延伸空間表述的可能，由線延展成面，再由面砌出空間的存在。展覽經歷遍 及歐美，曾於阿姆斯特丹市立博物館(Stedelijk Museum)，佛多爾美術館(Museum Fodor)展出。作品於阿姆斯特丹市立美術館(Stedelijk Musuem Amsterdam)、荷蘭 AkzoNobel Art Foundation、荷蘭銀行(ABN AMRO)、德國私人美術館(Sammlung Schroth)等永久收藏。
Carol Prusa 卡蘿·普魯莎
(American, b. 1956）
Carol Prusa holds a Master of Fine Arts from Drake University, where she specialized in painting. She is known for her meticulous silverpoint technique, an ancient and refined grayscale technique with the silver stylus, and the use of unexpected materials from sculpted resin and fiberglass to metal leaf and LED large-scale installations. Through this precise and sophisticated method, she explores the astronomic origin of life as well as the philosophy of cosmology in her silverpoint work. Carol Prusa received a SECAC Artistic Achievement Award in 2017 and awarded for 2020 Manifest Prize. Her works have been highly regarded in historical books on Silverpoint feature. Prusa participated in 2015-2016 Miami Biennale and had exhibited in many museums and important institutions including the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Boca Raton Museum, Louisiana Museum of Art and Science, etc. Her work included in excellent public and private collections, including the Perez Museum of Art, The Museum of Arts and Design (NYC), Telfair Art Museum (Savannah), Spencer Museum of Art, and the Francie Bishop Good and David Horvitz Collection.
Nick Veasey 尼克·維西
(British, b. 1962）
Internationally renowned X-ray artist Nick Veasey reveals the hidden facets beneath the surface using his unique X-ray penetration technique. His work humorously and mischievously explores the essence of people and objects' inner nature. Nick Veasey uses x-ray to strip back the layers and show what it is like under the surface. The technique reveals what, and often how, things are made, which grants his art to penetrate the surface and take us on a journey into a world otherwise hidden and unseen. Veasey has an extensive exhibition experience worldwide, with his artwork featured on the cover of TIME magazine and invited to give a TED talk. In 2018, he held a large-scale exhibition at the renowned Fotografiska museum in Sweden, visited by The Prince and Princess of Wales and the Crown Princess of Sweden. He also photographed important antique costumes for the Victoria and Albert Museum and collaborated with various brands such as Louis Vuitton, United Airlines, Balenciaga and Alexander McQueen. Works collected by the Victoria and Albert Museum, National Science and Media Museum in the UK, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Museum at FIT in the USA, the BMW Museum in Germany and the Museum of Applied Arts and Design (MUDAC) in Switzerland.
Marck
(Switzerland, b. 1964）
nternationally renowned X-ray artist Nick Veasey reveals the hidden facets beneath the surface using his unique X-ray penetration technique. His work humorously and mischievously explores the essence of people and objects' inner nature. Nick Veasey uses x-ray to strip back the layers and show what it is like under the surface. The technique reveals what, and often how, things are made, which grants his art to penetrate the surface and take us on a journey into a world otherwise hidden and unseen. Veasey has an extensive exhibition experience worldwide, with his artwork featured on the cover of TIME magazine and invited to give a TED talk. In 2018, he held a large-scale exhibition at the renowned Fotografiska museum in Sweden, visited by The Prince and Princess of Wales and the Crown Princess of Sweden. He also photographed important antique costumes for the Victoria and Albert Museum and collaborated with various brands such as Louis Vuitton, United Airlines, Balenciaga and Alexander McQueen. Works collected by the Victoria and Albert Museum, National Science and Media Museum in the UK, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Museum at FIT in the USA, the BMW Museum in Germany and the Museum of Applied Arts and Design (MUDAC) in Switzerland.
Marck 的作品看似以女性為主體，實際上則是以其作為社會縮影的代表，與框架的沖撞更探討著有形與無形的束縛，喚起觀者心中的共鳴。作品無法被單純定義為錄像與雕塑的結合，更像虛實的壹體呈現，由出演的排序、影片拍攝的精確定位，「錄像的目的不是敘述壹個故事，而是激發觀眾的情緒」，滲入我們習以為常的生活，以動態的畫面觸撥我們觀看雕塑的思維，同時也築起多媒體素材，至動力機械和雕塑的手工制作。錄像雕塑以全新的形式，揉合影像的平面表述與雕塑的空間意義，不僅辟出錄像創作的新道路，也再擴張觀者的感官體驗。
Caro Jost 卡蘿·傑斯特
(German, b. 1965）
Graduated from the Law School and the Art School of Munich University, Caro Jost lives and creates her art in Munich. Every artist has their favorite artists, but Caro Jost takes this admiration to a whole new level, incorporating her love for Munich's abstract expressionism groups into works extensively. Her works revolve around themes of time, space, and events. In the series "Streetprints," where she traveled to over 70 locations worldwide, imprinting traces she collected from the streets onto her canvases. Her artworks were exhibited MoMA, Chelsea Art Museum in New York, and Guggenheim Collection in Venice, permanently collected by the MoMA Library Collection (The archives of MoMA, NY), Chelsea Art Museum (NY), and Museum of the City of Munich.
Peter Krauskopf 彼得·克勞斯科夫
（German, b. 1966)
Peter Krauskopf studied at the Academy of Fine Arts in his birth town Leipzig and later continued as a post-graduate under Arno Rink. Known for his break with the figurative tradition of Leipzig painting, Peter Krauskopf especially interested in the process of overpainting, which he understands as an overwriting of time. All of his pieces – the intensive colored smaller plates, as well as the big monochrome color gradients, seem to be abstract at first sight, but they are all ‘concretions of a period of time’. On homogeneous, smooth grounds which either consist of an old, former abandoned painting or a monochrome under painting, Krauskopf performs one single intervention to form a new picture. In 2015 he received the Falkenrot Prize. His paintings were widely exhibited including the Mies van der Rohe-Haus, Berlin, the Forum Kunst Rottweil, the Kunsthalle Lingen and Kunsthaus Kaufbeuren, works presented in the collection of the Albertinum in Dresden, the Ludwig Forum in Aachen, the City Museum of Wrocław, the Kunstverein Ludwigshafen, the Museum Schloss Morsbroich in Leverkusen, Kupferstichkabinett and the Galerie Neue Meister in Dresden, Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg.
Thierry Feuz西瑞‧菲茲
(Swiss, b. 1968）
Graduated from Geneva University of Art and Design (Haute École d'Art et de Design), Feuz currently lives and works in Geneva. In his artistic realm, art, science, and philosophy converge as he explores the universal meaning of "existence" and presents unseen realms through his unique painting techniques. Thierry Feuz's works have been collected by significant institutions and museums, including Musée d'Art et d'Histoire in Neuchâtel, Singapore Art Foundation, UBS Bank, Saks Fifth Avenue in the United States, as well as the Breeze Crop. and E.Sun Commercial Bank, among other corporate collections.
Angela Glajcar 安格拉·格拉札
(German, b. 1970）
Born in Mainz, Germany, Angela Glajcar studied sculpture at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Nuremberg from 1991 to 1998. Glajcar's work embodies sculpture and installation, it examines the way in which space is experienced using a material that is fragile and light. In the act of ripping and perforating a material that is traditionally used as a two-dimensional support, Glajcar gives paper a strong sculptural presence. Terforation is the title of Angela Glajcar's famous cubic pieces. The staggered arrangement of the vertically hung series of sheets of white paper, with torn edges, produces cave-like recessions. These extend into the depth of the sculpture. The sharp ridges and deep caverns gives viewer a fascinating room of harmony and silence. Glajcar has exhibited extensively and been the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships including Studio Award of the Kunststiftung Erich Hauser, the Asterstein scholarship in 1999 and Vordemberge Gildewart Award in 2004. Glajcar's works have been showcased in various prominent public art exhibitions, including Cologne Cathedral, the Frankfurt Department of Culture, the Jacksonville Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Mainz Gutenberg Museum. Permanent collections of Glajcar's works can be found at the Jacksonville Museum of Contemporary Art in the United States, the Wiesbaden Museum in Germany, the Mainz Arts and Sciences Center in Germany, and the Hanten Schmidt collection in Austria.
Wolfgang Flad 沃夫岡·福拉德
(German, b. 1974）
Wolfgang Flad is a German artist living and working in Berlin. Born in 1974, he studied textile design at Fachhochschule Reutlingen and fine arts at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Stuttgart. He has had numerous solo exhibitions in Germany and other European countries, and has placed his artwork in museum collections in Germany, Switzerland, and the Netherlands. Primarily a sculptor, Flad is interested in “upcycling” previously used material, and in creating unexpected associations and connections between art and the natural world.
Jan Kaláb楊‧克拉
(Czech Republic, b.1978）
持續走在一條非傳統的藝術家之路的捷克塗鴉界先驅 Jan Kalab，畢業於布拉格 藝術學院(Academy of Fine Arts in Prague)。他的幾何塗鴉壁畫可見於紐約、 布拉格、倫敦、波哥大等城市。Kalab 以點出發，發展幾何圓形形變，以及 3D 塗鴉立體雕塑，從街頭到畫布，塗鴉的概念走入極簡純白的藝廊空間，擦出迷幻 的火花，他擁有在抽象藝術與街頭創作的雙重語彙，創造出充滿能量的抽象作品。 2010 年代表捷克在上海世界博覽會捷克館展出，於歐美有豐富展出經驗，作品 收藏於法國精品 DIOR 德國旗艦店、及眾多名人及私人收藏。
Tim Freiwald 提姆·弗萊瓦德
(German, b.1986）
Graduated from the Fine Arts at the Munich Art Academy, Tim Freiwald now work and live in Berlin. Tim Freiwald's creative process involves "destruction, decomposition, and reconstruction" generating negative spaces in his works, constantly exploring the questions of whether "destruction can still be beautiful" and "what is art." Fragments, fractured lines, and delicate structures, all portrayed through intense colors, define his aesthetic style of destructiveness. Freiwald mentioned “I want the paintings to be on the verge of physical collapse so that they only become stable through the painterly attraction between their elements.” In 2011, Tim Freiwald received the BMW Brilliance Automotive Art Award. In 2014, he became a student of the artist Thomas Scheibitz. In 2018, Tim Freiwald was awarded the New Positions prize at the Art Cologne, a prestigious art exhibition in Cologne. Tim Freiwald has already held significant solo exhibitions at various European venues including Walter Storms Galerie in Munich, exhibited at the Kunsthalle Bremerhaven in Bremen.
Axel Anklam 艾克瑟·安克拉姆
(German, b. 1971）
畢業於柏林藝術大學，現居住、創作於柏林。Anklam 就讀於哈雷藝術與設計大學期間開始接觸雕塑並著墨於金屬物件，而後於2004年進入柏林藝術大學，在知名雕塑家Tony Cragg 的引導下持續鑽研雕塑並取得碩士學位。作品媒材包含金屬與不鏽鋼，Anklam 透過結合如玻璃纖維、環氧樹脂等的現代素材來增加作品的層次。軟材和硬材的結合呈現簡約、直白、清晰的語彙，他的雕塑作品透過光影與空間的交互作用構築而成。彼此跟隨並不斷流動的型態創造出視覺上獨特的感受。Anklam 也喜歡使用透明或不透明的素材，像是不銹鋼網、環氧樹脂或乳膠，以光影和環境的變化創造新的視角。
Almudena Pintado阿慕黛娜·品塔多
(Spain , b. 1969）
Almudena Pintado, born in Spain, currently creates and resides in Switzerland. She has participated in numerous international exhibitions and art fairs, spanning countries such as Spain, Switzerland, France, Belgium, Italy, Colombia, Mexico, Argentina, the United States, Iran, Singapore, and Brazil. Her exhibition experience includes prestigious venues like the Louvre Museum's Carrousel Museum in Paris and the Museum of the Americas in Mexico. She has also been invited to participate in art projects at the Tijuana Cultural Center of the Mexican Consulate in California. Pintado's rich list of awards includes honors from the National Academy of Fine Arts in Brazil, awards from the National Arts Organization in Paris, a bronze award from the Paris Academy of Fine Arts, and the first international art award from the Cordoba Alliance in Spain.
Rine Boyer 凌·波兒
（American, b. 1982)
芝加哥藝術家凌•波兒（Rine Boyer）擅長以個性化的圖案與簡潔的色調捕捉極具特色的人物性格，不拘泥於繁瑣型制下的人像繪畫傳統，展現獨樹一幟的個體印象。波兒的靈感源自於對生活的細膩觀察，新系列創作不僅延續對圖像、色彩與空間互動的實驗手法，更將描繪主題做進一步的推展，寄附於人與人，以及人與動物之間情感的聯繫上，在看似尋常的互動中卻含藏著真摯不造作的情愫，喚起觀者心中的共鳴。
Christiane Grimm 克里斯蒂安·格琳
(German, b. 1957）
畢業於斯圖加特大學（Universität Stuttgart）建築所，Christiane Grimm 的創作由建築觀點出發，結合層次性的幾何與色彩，將偌大空間中光影變化，透過與觀者的互動呈現。現居住創作於德國作品獲德國海德堡市政府、德意志銀行，以及私人美術館 Das Kleine Museum…等永久收藏，並擁有眾多私人藏家。
利用圖形迭合起的不明確性，Grimm 將客觀的構圖移交主觀詮釋，並傳遞幾何擴張而成的漸變美感。過去於金屬、玻璃或紙材上的繪畫，以二維的色彩和結構組織畫面，因油彩的飽和光澤及載體的物理反射特性，曖曖映出空間的深度，鮮活的色彩組合則帶出作品的脈動。近期更將創作層次推向三維的探索，迭合單色或無色的有機玻璃（plexiglass），利落劃分空間的同時也模糊色與色的絕對區隔，作品表面的波狀處理，看似發散了感知的維度，受到環境光影連動，不插電卻為靜態作品添加了動態元素，並建起觀者與作品的鏈接。
Bryan Ida 布萊恩·伊達
(American, b.1963）
布萊恩•伊達(Bryan Ida，美國，1963年生)現居住及創作於美國洛杉磯，以壓克力結合環氧樹脂(Epoxy)與聚酯纖維(Polyester)的堆疊層次進行創作，由多樣的視角、色彩與城市和自然進行對話。曾多次於美國知名博物館及美術館舉辦展覽，包含蘭開斯特藝術與歷史博物館(Lancaster Museum of Art and History) 、河濱市美術館 (Riverside Art Museum)、托倫斯藝術博物館 (Torrance Art Museum)、長灘美術館 (Long Beach Museum of Art) 、洛杉磯當代藝術美術館 (Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles)等。作品收藏於微軟(Microsoft)與杜邦旗下杰能科(DuPont™ Genencor® Science)等矽谷高科技產業公司。
Frank Maier 法蘭克·邁爾
（German, b. 1966)
Frank Maier法蘭克．邁爾，出生於德國斯圖加特，曾於喀斯魯美術學院主修雕塑，於1996 年獲得了巴登符騰堡州授予的維也納研究生居留權，目前創作及居住於德國柏林。作品曾多次參與國際展覽遍及德國、法國、英國、美國、澳洲、義大利等國，展覽經驗包括中國青島雕塑美術館、施瓦本哈爾市政府、布蘭登堡藝術協會等作品由巴伐利亞州立美術館、慕尼黑現代藝術陳列館、德國鐘錶品牌Kienzle藝術基金會等重要機構及私人藏家永久收藏。
Dylan Martinez 迪倫·馬汀尼茲
(American, b.1962）
美國波爾州立大學藝術碩士，主修玻璃創作。以玻璃探索媒材和視覺互動，透過光、空間與形體的變化衝擊觀者的視覺經驗。榮獲多項國際競賽獎項、米蘭國際藝術玻璃與設計競賽創新獎、匹茲堡玻璃中心首獎等。Martinez 以玻璃為主要創作媒介，在加熱塑形與冷卻凝固之間，吹化出生動的姿態。主張作品是實驗的載體，而非追求技術表現的裝飾，運用玻璃折射及任意彎折的特性，探討不同的視覺體驗。本次展出的 Waterbags 系列作品，透過對玻璃特質的精準掌握，細緻地呈現移晃中水袋的形貌，袋緣粒粒水珠彷彿即將滑落，為其經典的代表作之一。
Tanja Rochelmeyer 譚雅·侯荷麥爾
（German, b. 1975)
Tanja Rochelmeyer graduated from the Berlin University of Applied Sciences and currently lives in Berlin, Germany. Many of her creations draw inspiration from her engineering background, emphasizing attention to detail and mathematical precision. However, calculations are not the medium of creation but an intermediate step in the creative process. Her training as an engineer has contributed to a perfectionist approach to technology, creating a sharp contrast with the moments of image creation. Ultimately, she positions herself and the subject of her creation within this contrast. "Constructivism and futurism meet the latest architecture and merge into a new language of modern painting." Tanja Rochelmeyer creates maze-like, dispersed spatial configurations, introducing multiple perspectives into the concept of imagery.
Dirk Salz 迪爾克·薩爾茲
(German, b. 1962）
Dirk Salz lives and works in Cologne. He was born 1962 in Bochum, Germany, to an artistic family. Through his childhood and high school, he grew up painting, drawing, and studying art history. Salz’ artistic work deals in different manners with human perception or rather with the insufficiency of our mind that shapes this perception. His work can be found in a number of private collections, as well as prominent corporate collections, such as the Akzo Nobel Art Foundation.
Isabella Kohlhuber 伊莎貝菈·科赫胡貝爾
（Austria, B.1982)
畢業於維也納應用藝術大學跨媒體藝術系，以維也納與漢堡為創作據點，目前亦任教於維也納藝術大學。師事奧地利藝術家Adolf Frohner與捷克當代攝影藝術家Jiři David。自2006起積極參與維也納的展覽，2018在維也納White Cube Yellow舉辦個展，於維也納當代藝術館、維也納博物館區等多種藝術機構展出。獲奧地利超級聯賽100周年藝術競賽Art Challenge首獎。Kohlhuber以文字為題，透過繪畫、裝置、雕塑、動畫等不同形式的創作，主張藝術作品為傳遞訊息的載體，探討在溝通過程中，圖像或文字如何傳達意義，又是如何被詮釋和解讀。作品獲奧地利知名藏家 Martin Lenikus收藏機構Sammlung Lenikus收藏。
Ramiro Smith Estrada 拉米羅·史密斯·埃斯特拉達
（American, b. 1984)
拉米羅． 史密斯．埃斯特拉達(1984生)，居住及創作於阿根廷布宜諾斯艾利斯。2007年，埃斯特拉達於阿根廷社會博物館德爾大學(UMSA)主修雕刻。分別於2010年和2013年參加國家雕刻美術展，並於2012年榮獲威廉姆斯獎。2014年，更獲選參與由Gachi Prieto畫廊與多位知名教授聯合主持之當代藝術實踐診所計畫（PAC，以西班牙語為首字母縮寫）。多次於阿根廷舉辦個展及群展，並於2014年邁阿密溫伍德藝術區參加阿根廷連展及2015為比利時布魯塞爾La Vallee駐村藝術家。
拉米羅． 史密斯．埃斯特拉達的作品圍繞著在現代社會中「我們如何看待自己」以及「我們如何描繪自己」的主題。描繪通過自戀的觀點，我們不斷編織一個關於自身的故事，是時尚，是當下也是最新潮的。
Sebastian Masegosa 賽巴斯汀·馬賽戈薩
（Argentina, b.1974)
Sebastian Masegosa was graduated from Panamerican University of Art, lives and works in Argentina. Using acrylic paints, oil, automotive paint, petrol and corrosives, all these non compatible materials speak of the infinite possibilities that exist in creation and the artist explores with them and looking for reactions between them. Masegosa had been exhibited in several museums and institutions including Fondo Nacional de las Artes, Museo Nacional de Arte Decorativo, Museo de Arte Tigre, Museo de Arte Moderno in Mendoza. His work is also included in collection of MNBA Neuquén and Portugal important architect Manuel Aires Mateus's private collection.
NONOTAK STUDIO
（EST. 2011)
法國雙人組合Nonotak Studio的組合誕生於2011年底，由負責動態視覺的插畫家Noemi Schipfer及擅長音樂及空間構成的電氣音樂家Takami Nakamoto共同進行創作，透過電子節拍和燈光的搭配，建造一個視覺效果豐富的場景給觀者。Bluerider ART此次展出Nonotak Studio之”DAYDREAM V.3″，此系列為一裝置藝術表演的計畫，能使觀者置身其中而體驗到空間扭曲感的氛圍，彷彿周遭的空間及時間產生如加速、收縮、錯置等變形效果。這個作品旨在於真實空間和虛擬空間中建立一個身體實質的連結，藉以模糊虛實之間的區隔，使觀者能夠暫時遠離現實生活。”DAYDREAM”利用聲光裝置表演對觀者提出”沉思”的邀請；在強烈的感官體驗中，觀眾被帶領至被動的位置而能藉機思考沉澱。
Amy Van Winkle 艾美·凡·溫克
（American, b.1970)
Born in Norwood, currently lives and works in Chicago, Amy Van Winkle is a self-taught artist. Her early artistic pursuits involved a #2 pencil and a sketchpad. From there she began creating mixed media work on canvas with old textbooks and acrylic. Her influences include Gerhard Richter, Mark Rothko and Cy Twombly. Along with these artist's influences, there's always a hint of structure and control to her abstract paintings. Amy Van Winkle has participated in multiple shows in the U.S.A. including Freeport Art Museum, and her works are included in the collection of various noted enterprises including Bank of Holland.
Amy works mainly in the medium of Encaustic and oil paint. During the creative process of her oil paintings, she usually scrapes the surface on which it adds texture and creates a dialog between the fused layer. Encaustic, with over 3000 years of history, is a wax based medium applied on mural paintings in ancient Greece. As the oldest known pigment binder, encaustic combines molten beeswax with dry pigment and tree resin which makes it impervious to moisture and can last long. In Amy Van Winkle’s encaustic works, she keeps the transparency of watercolors and the volume of oil paint.
