ZIYI TAN
VISUAL ARTIST
LONG BEACH, CALIFORNIA
When the Stars Put False Lights Into Your Eyes
Color pencil on tan paper, 8.75 × 10.75 inches
2021
Exhibited in Coming Together, 2021, LBCG/Rod Briggs Gallery, Long Beach, CA.
Astigmatism affects my vision when I glance at light sources at night. In the motion of half-opening eyes, between blurry shadows of lashes and the slightest flutters of eyelids behind, phantom parallel lines depart from points of light, as if they were red-eye flights, strings of kites, or verses I choose not to rhyme.
LATEST WORKS
LATEST WORKS
STAGED/SCRIPTED
Oil, acrylic on canvas, 12 × 16 inches
2024
A Sci-Fi Lullaby
Set of 6, color pencil on cardstock, 8 × 8 inches each
2023
Matching art images and poetry in the form of a zine. Available at Page Against The Machine Bookstore, Long Beach, CA.
Stud-y: Magenta Rose
Available
Oil on panel, metal studs, 16 × 16 inches
2022
Exhibited in Inspired by…, 2022, LBCG/Rod Briggs Gallery, Long Beach, CA.
Stud-y: Magenta Rose is inspired by the alternative outfits of the related sub-culture groups: punk, goth, metalheads, and those whose styles have similar visual aesthetics. Metal studs, spikes, and chains are among their most distinctive outfit elements. To simulate the act and the look of ear and body piercing, I punctured the traditional 2D art surface and added actual metal studs and chains onto the painting.
The beauty of roses and the danger of their thorns is a forever art and literature motif. In Stud-y: Magenta Rose, I tried to present the inner connection between this motif and the “charming yet dangerous” signal that alternative fashion sends out.
