has been for sale for some time, as you have seen. The maintenance and ongoing development to keep our non-profit and idealistic platform for contemporary art running and safe from hackers etc. costs money that is no longer there. Because of small investments that are necessary now and the running costs, we will have to shut down with a heavy heart at the beginning of summer on June 21.
About me
Le Xi (lexistudio)
My work looks at an object, focusing on the distance between its’ shadow and electronic light. Everywhere I looked, everything I saw, appeared as survey and mechanical drawings. The work represents a critique of themes related to the professional practice and socialized ideal of architecture as well as to the nature of urban life. I contemplate the transition from the mechanical to the biological. Using simple lines, shadow, drawn simply but referencing the techniques of a machine. There are shifts from anxiety to expectancy, and questions the distinctions between ‘objective’ (‘rational’) mechanical methods and ‘subjective’ (‘irrational’) influences. --- whether in two or three dimensions, or computer animation. I attempt to translate the mechanics of the projector into a physical and spatial form that engages common objects with something that is said, and at the same time with the object that is used. In so doing for the transition and connection, there is a disregarding of the boundaries between substance and shadow, and time and space.
- Biography
Le Xi was born during China’s Cultural Revolution and grew up in the period of contemporary Chinese history and globalization. As part of the contemporary Chinese art scene he has appeared in group exhibitions in China. In 2002 Le began lives in New York. In 2009 he has appeared in a group exhibition “Mary’s Choice” curated by Mary Heilmann at the 303 Gallery in New York. Later he was part of “Drawing itself: A Survery of Contemporary Practice”, curated by Mara Williams at the Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, in Vermont New England. In 2010 he received The Alumni Scholarship Award and got his MFA in fine art from The School of Visual Arts in New York City.
- Exhibitions
SOLO EXHIBITION
1998 “The Personality of a Metropolis” Eagle Crown Meeting Centre, Chongqing, China.
2009 “Life on Line”, C.X.Silver Gallery, Fine Art, Vermont New England
2009 “ Grip” Corridor Gallery at HPD New York
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS / SCREENINGS
2011 “In the ZoneIII” curated by Christine Temin, Brattleboro Museum and
Art Center, Vernon New England
2010 “Plus One” curated by Dan Cameron, Perry Rubenstein in Chelsea, New York
2010 “Open Studio Tour”, Brattleboro-West Arts, Vermont
2010 “That’s Just It” Curated by Stephen Maine, Visual Arts Gallery in Chelsea, New York
2010 “Serial Intentions” Curated by Richard Brooks, Visual Arts Gallery in Chelsea, New York
2010 “Keep it Short: The One-Minute Film Festival”, The SVA Sculpture Space, New York
2010 “60 Seconds” Kort Film Festival 2010, Copenhagen, Denmark
2010 “Multiplex” Curated by Elizabeth M. Grady, Visual Arts Gallery in Chelsea, New York
2010 “Give Me a Minute” Curated by amber Boardman, 47 Thames St. #306 Brooklyn, NY
2010 24 hour “bring your own art” event, X-initiative – Art Gallery in Chelsea, New York
2009/11-2010 /02 “Drawing itself: A Survey of Contemporary Practice”, Curated by Mara Wil
liams, Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Vernon New England
2009 “Mary’s Choice” Curated by Mary Heilmann, 303 Gallery in Chelsea, New York
2009 “Chinese Lunar New Year 09- Videos’ show”, Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Vernon
New England
2009 “100 Works on Paper Benefit exhibition”, Kentler international Drawing Space , New York
2009 “Open Studios”, MFA School of Visual Arts, New York
2009 “About Time”, Visual Arts Gallery in Chelsea, New York
2008 “Open Studios”, MFA School of Visual Arts, New York
2007 “07 EDM Show”, City College gallery, New York
2007 “Art Club Show”, City College New York
2006 “A Group Shows”, Asia Culture Center of Vermont, New Engliand
2001 “Chinese Art of Today”, Central Arts Institute, Beijing. China.
2000 “100 Persons, 100 Years”, Nanjing Art Institute, Nanjing. China
1999 “Contemporary Chinese Art”, Sichuan Institute of Fine Arts China
1998 “Art Circles Magazine Show”, ChongQing, China
1997 “Still Life”, Shanghuan Institute Theatre Academy Gallery. China- Publications
2010 Video “Drift” was selected among the top 20 videos entered into “60 Seconds”
KORTFILMFESTIVAL 2010, Copenhagen, Denmark
2009 Artscope Magazine, New England’s Culture Magazine
1998 Art Cireles Magazin 10#, ChongQing , China
1998 “The personality of a metropolis & contemporary art” by Wong, Lin Publishing House of
ChongQing, China
