Recent paintings from my studio (mostly 2014):

(For complete list, please see blogs of 2014 & 2013)

Age contemplating innocence (16x20, 2014) (N/A)

Consoling the newly arrived (16x20, 2015)

Know thyself? (12x16, 2015)

Country road (16x20, 2015) *

Long hair (12x16, 2014) *

I love the lighting which makes her brown hair shine like golden silk

Before the dance (12x16, 2014) *

The model surprised us by showing up with this dance costume.

Portrait of a young girl (12x16, 2014)

Chess game (12x16, 2014)

I picked up the fallen branches and withered leaves from the park. Hope they help forming an autumn scene.

Vanity fair (12x16, 2014)

I'm fascinated by masks.  I've done one with a male mask.  This is a female one.

morning (12x16, 2014)

Repose after bath (12x16, 2014)

Pierrot forlorn (12x16, 2014)

I find the sad clown Pierrot fascinating, who pines for love, but his Columbine always prefers Harlequin to him.

Pierrot pitied (12x16, 2014)

Who will pity him?  Only a lifeless marble statue?

Dawn of life (16x20, 2014) (N/A)

Hope (16x20, 2014)

This one is mostly imagined, like a good/bad dream.

Little K (12x16, 2013) (N/A)

This is the grandniece of a good friend.  I love the way she looks. I wonder what's in her mind.

Girl writing letter (8x10).  A portrait of my sis.(N/A)

The tempest (9x11) (N/A)

based on a small photo from a theater performance. It's now hung on the wall of my study.

Remembering the past (11x14)

An old man sitting in the park, thinking of his past.

"Oh, weep for Adonais". (12x16, 2014)

The young, thin model reminded me of the romantic poet Keats, who died young.  So I used Shelley's elegy for Keats for the title of this painting.

Waiting (12x16, 2014)

A girl all dressed up, waiting to be picked up by her partner.  He seems late.

Childhood memories (12x16)

White roses and grapes (12x16)

(12x16, 2014)

11x14 (2015) *

3 roses (11x14)

I thought of the title "Awakening".  The white rose symbolizes innocence, the red, passion, and the pink, awakening, but finally dropped that title and used the simpler "3 roses".

Portrait of a worker (12x16, 2014)

This is not my favorite, but Frank likes it.

Girl in yellow light (12x16, 2014)

I thought the yellow light at the left gives a special flavour to the portrait.

Portrait of a fellow artist (11x14, 2014)

The model didn't show up that day.  A fellow artist volunteered to model.

2014 Art Fairs

57th Street Art fair.

57th Street Art Fair is the oldest juried art fair in the Midwest.  It took place on June 7, 8, in Hyde Park, Chicago, near the University of Chicago campus.  There were more than 250 booths in the fair and thousands of visitors. I'm honored to be selected to exhibit my work in this fair.  Here are some photos:

My booth (1)

My booth (2) (side wall)

My booth (3)

My classmates 

Dr. & Mrs. Fu (left), me, Dr. Huang, & Dr. & Mrs. Wu.

Dr. & Mrs. Wu came all the way from Ann Arbor.  I'm very grateful for their support.

My former post-doc, Dr. Tan, now an endowed chair professor

 of Pediatrics at Northwestern Univ.

From left to right:  Dr. Tan, Dr. Chou, me & Dr. Huang.  

The baby in front is Dr. Chou's grandchild.

Francis, me & my better half

Ms. Rong Liang, my partner

I sold nothing, but a lady asked me at what price would I sell this one.

(It's labelled "Not for sale")

Oak Park Art Fair (Aug. 16-17)

This was a small, local art fair in a beautiful park in Oak Park. It's more relaxed, the weather was beautiful and people are friendly.  I enjoyed it very much, although I sold nothing. (There were some people asking about the price of my "NFS" painting.)

Dr. Kovarik and Chou and her hubby visit my booth.

Julie, Janathan, Xiomara & me

Dr. De Plaen & her two children. Dr. & Mrs. Olmos

Francis, Dawn & me

Dr. Chiu (looking at the paintings). The lady talking to me is Mrs Chiu.

My classmates & their better halves:  Drs, Huang, Fu, and Chiu.  The photographer, Dr. Wu, is not in the photo.

My oil paintings:  Imaginative realism 

                                                       

                                   

Pierrot forlorn

(12x16, 2014)

"Oh, weep for Adonais"

(12x16, 2014)

We visited the house of Keats (where he died) in Rome this summer.  The house is now a museum - "Keats-Shelley Memorial House", although Shelley never went there.  Shelley wrote a poem "Adonais", an elegy on the death of Keats. That gives me the inspiration fo the title of this painting.

"Turn your distress and tears into jest" 

(12x16, 2014)

mother & child (11x14, 2015)

Violets are for remembrance

(12x16, 2014)

Hope (tentative title

(16x20, 2014)

Dung-Huang impression

(pastel)

Dawn of Life (16x20, 2014) (NA)

(figures based on photograph of my friend, Yeh Tze's grandchildren)

Eternal silence (2013) (N/A)

The tempest (N/A)