Reusable Universes: Shih Chieh Huang

Shih Chieh Huang, T-24-L, 2017, 8 x 13 x 9 feet, Mixed media, photo: Megan Paetzhold, Courtesy of the artist and Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York

June 24 - November 12, 2017
Contemporary Gallery

Reusable Universes: Shih Chieh Huang features the work of Shih Chieh Huang, who combines his longstanding fascination with technology and the materials of modern life to transform mundane manufactured objects into novel and remarkably complex sculptural forms. Huang elevates circuit building, transistor rewiring, and other hardware operations into an art that connects not only with our senses but our sense of humanity between today's virtual and analog existence.

At the Worcester Art Museum, Huang plans to create his most ambitious immersive environment to date—a kinetic sculptural installation consisting of over one hundred various-sized elements. In addition to the exhibition, the artist will create onsite his Organic Concept, an infinitely scalable sculpture made from rolls of painter's plastic and box fans. The creation will be a public performance in the Museum lobby on July 20, 2017. Afterwards, Organic Concept will be temporarily installed in the Renaissance Court.

Reusable Universes resonates with the spirit of innovation and curiosity that continues to ground Worcester today. Huang's art also will provoke the viewer to consider society's rapidly changing relationship with technology. By constructing grand works of "low-tech" art made from high-tech parts that are intentionally built to look unfinished, Huang endeavors to recapture the curiosity and wonder of early technology that will inspire visitors to likewise experiment and build anew.

Support for Reusable Universes: Shih Chieh Huang has been provided by the Taipei Cultural Center in New York; Lisa Kirby Gibbs, Robin Kirby, and Diana (Kirby) Glimm; and UniBank.

Funding has also been provided in part by The Donald and Mary Melville Contemporary Art Program Fund and The John M. Nelson Fund. Media partners are Artscope Magazine, WBUR, and Worcester Magazine.

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Third Thursday Event
Public Performance: Organic Concept

Thursday, July 20, 6pm

Witness and participate in Shih Chieh Huang's popular Organic Concept, an infinitely scalable sculpture made from rolls of painter's plastic and box fans. The installation will be created as an interactive public performance in the Renaissance Court. From 5:30 to 8pm light refreshments and a cash bar will be available. From Friday, July 21 through Sunday, July 23 Organic Concept will be installed for public viewing in the Renaissance Court.

Downloadable Poster

Shih Chieh Huang Reusable Universes Poster

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Selected Images:

Shih Chieh Huang, T-24-L, 2017, 8 x 13 x 9 feet, Mixed media, photo: Megan Paetzhold, Courtesy of the artist and Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York Shih Chieh Huang, T-24-L, 2017, 8 x 13 x 9 feet, Mixed media, photo: Megan Paetzhold, Courtesy of the artist and Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York Shih Chieh Huang, T-24-L, 2017, 8 x 13 x 9 feet, Mixed media, photo: Megan Paetzhold, Courtesy of the artist and Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York
Shih Chieh Huang, VT-36, 2017, 10 x 10 x 12 feet, mixed media, photo: Megan Paetzhold, Courtesy of the artist and Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York Shih Chieh Huang, VT-36, 2017, 10 x 10 x 12 feet, mixed media, photo: Megan Paetzhold, Courtesy of the artist and Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York Shih Chieh Huang, VT-36, 2017, 10 x 10 x 12 feet, mixed media, photo: Megan Paetzhold, Courtesy of the artist and Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York
Shih Chieh Huang, VT-34-BTB (red angel eye), 2017, 12 x 13 x  3 feet, mixed media, photo: Megan Paetzhold, Courtesy of the artist and Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York Shih Chieh Huang, VT-34-BTB (red angel eye), 2017, 12 x 13 x  3 feet, mixed media, photo: Megan Paetzhold, Courtesy of the artist and Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York Shih Chieh Huang, VT-34-BTB (blue angel eye), 2017, 12 x 13 x  3 feet, mixed media, photo: Megan Paetzhold, Courtesy of the artist and Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York

Press

WGBH
Discover otherworldly sculptures made from everyday objects with “Reusable Universes: Shih Chieh Huang”

Hyperallergic.com
A Cybernetic Bestiary Made of Disposable Packaging
By Christopher Snow Hopkins, August 24, 2017

Artnet.com
Artist Shih Chieh Huang on Using New Technology to Bring Trash to Life
By Sarah Cascone, July 31, 2017

Telegram and Gazette
Reusable Universes at Worcester Art Museum features kinetic sculpture
By Nancy Sheehan, July 1, 2017

bostonese.com Online Journal
(Shih Chieh Huang Exhibit at WAM Opens on June 24)
June 2017

Modern Painter
A Theory of Evolution - Shih Chieh Huang's kinetic sculptures keep growing
By Margaret Carrigan, June/July 2017