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Exhibition
New Year Goodies
Exhibiting Artists: Yeo Siak Goon, Tan Ai Ngin, Wong Shih Yaw, Andre Tan, Foo Kwee Horng, William Sim, ZXEROKOOL
Venue: ION Art Gallery > venue details
Dates: 18 Jan 2012 - 30 Jan 2012
A visit to the house of a relative or friend during Chinese New Year is always accompanied by a sampling of the varied smorgasbord of titbits, snacks and candied sweetmeats that your host will inevitably offer. In this New Year exhibition, we welcome you to feast on new work including nostalgic shopfronts by Foo Kwee Horng, whimsical concoctions by William Sim, anachronistic local pop art by Andre Tan, amorous lovebombs by Iskander Walen, animals with attitude by ZXEROKOOL, traditional Chinese ink paintings by Ho Sou Ping and Li Wei Yan, detailed animal portraits by Regu Doraisamy and autobiographical lookbacks by Wong Shih Yaw, abstracted seascape nudes by Yeo Siak Goon, five-footway perspectives by Tan Ai Ngin and a fascinating selection of young and old Vietnamese painters Ai Lan, Hoang Hoanh, Lieu Nguyen, Thanh Canh, Trudy Nghi and Truong Lo (Zhang Lu).
Exhibited Works
 Chong Wan Metalsmith2012 56cm x 38cm |  Sin Ban Fong Metalsmith2012 38cm x 56cm |  Provision Shop2012 38cm x 56cm |  Chin Hong Cycle Co.2012 38cm x 56cm |
 Yat Heng Bamboo Products2012 56cm x 38cm |  Melon Seeds and Nuts, Chinatown2012 28cm x 38cm |  New Year Decorations, Chinatown2012 28cm x 38cm |  Waxed Meat, Chinatown2012 38cm x 28cm |
 Nam Seng & Co. (chopping boards)2012 38cm x 28cm |  Peanut Seller2012 38cm x 28cm |  Newspaper Vendor2012 38cm x 28cm |  Zhenji Bamboo Shop2012 38cm x 28cm |
 Da Zhong Liquor2012 38cm x 28cm |  The Modern Samsui #072012 122cm x 152cm |  The Modern Samsui #082012 152cm x 122cm |  Masked Mao (blue)2011 152cm x 122cm |
 Scarlet Tide of Happiness2012 30cm x 40cm |  Lionhearted Happiness2012 30cm x 40cm |  Balancing Happiness2012 30cm x 40cm |  Free Swimming Happiness2012 40cm x 30cm |
 Blue Tide of Happiness2012 50cm x 70cm |  Penguin Assassin2012 50.5cm x 40.5cm |  Panda Commando2012 50.5cm x 40.5cm |  Rabbit Ninja2012 50.5cm x 40.5cm |
Artists
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Foo Kwee Horng
Singapore
Foo Kwee Horng obtained his BA with Merit in Social Work and Japanese Studies at the National University of Singapore in 1993, and his Postgraduate Diploma in Education and MA (visual arts research) from the National Institute of Education, Singapore in 1997 and 2005 respectively. He was Highly Commended at the 18th UOB Painting of the Year Exhibition (1999) and won Honourable Mention at the Philip Morris Singapore Art Awards (1999), and has exhibited in London, Malaysia and Singapore.
William Sim
Singapore
William started painting under the guidance of pioneer artist Tan Puay Tee at the age of 10. Through his mentorship, William studied colour and form. Over the years he has experimented with various media, but nature as a thematic study has never left his canvas. The worlds William creates find their roots in happiness. The subjects of his paintings are a blend of nature and mechanical objects: they depict, singly and as collectives, dreamscapes where positivity reigns.
Andre Tan
Singapore
Andre Tan obtained his Diploma in Fine Arts (Painting) from the LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts, Singapore (2000), his Bachelor of Arts in Fine Art with 1st Class Honors from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University (2004) and returned to LASALLE for his Master of Arts in Fine Arts (2006). Andre is the recipient of the Judge’s Choice for UTGP08-Kenichiro Mogi Prize (2008, Japan), Studentship Scheme (2005) in LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts, and also the Georgette Chen Arts Schola
Tan Ai Ngin
Singapore
Tan Ai Ngin (born 1972, Singapore) obtained her Diploma in Fine Arts at the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts in 1996 and her Bachelor of Arts in Chinese painting at the Nanjing Arts College, China in 1999. She went on to complete a one-year course in visual arts at the School of Fine and Performing Arts Constantijn Huygens, in Kampen, The Netherlands in 2001. She has been collected by the Frans Walkate Archief in The Netherlands and the Tokyo office of the Singapore Tourism Board.
Wong Shih Yaw
Singapore
Wong Shih Yaw has swung from emotive expressionism in his early days as a key member of the Artists Village in Jalan Ulu Sembawang, to allegorical Christian realism, and now has been painting largely in an illustrative graphic style for his past few solo shows. A graduate of the Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts, the artist is heavily collected by the Singapore Art Museum, The National Art Gallery Singapore and several prominent collectors.
Yeo Siak Goon
Singapore
Yeo Siak Goon 杨昔银 has an enduring fascination for the female form, whether decked in full costume regalia as in his Balinese dancers, or serenely bereft of clothing as in his sensual beachside nudes. Playing extensively with negative space, Siak Goon loves to conceal as much as he reveals, deliberately omitting key portions of his figures for one’s mind to connect limb to torso, and indulge in a game of visual peek-a-boo. Born in 1957, Malaysia, he presently lives and works in Singapo
ZXEROKOOL
Singapore
ZXEROKOOL is the art moniker of Jonathan Leong, a Singapore based intergalactic ninja, practitioner of visual kung-fu and creative mayhem. His work can be described as a hyperkinetic blend of popular culture, digitalism, fantasy, science fiction, comic books and contemporary mythology.