侯玉書 (b.1968~)

出生於臺北,侯玉書在十一歲時即前往美國接受教育,畢業於哈佛大學視覺和環境研究系後,再前往紐約市的紐約工作室學院研習繪畫和雕塑。自1995年開始,侯玉書即在紐約成立工作室專注於藝術創作,直到2003年搬回台灣。

侯玉書早期的作品多為文圖並茂的呈現,作品中隨意出現的字母就像每個創作的解謎密碼,傳達來自生活裡的故事細節;另一個創作重點則是使用黃金比例的色彩、塊狀比例及顏料堆疊,讓其作品呈現精緻的和諧組合,隱約神秘的特性,成為繪畫中的質感與語彙,也帶來令人感動的力量及正面的能量。

侯玉書不僅是一位視覺藝術家,他也是一位能量療法的實踐者和爵士樂歌手,並將他於生活中所接觸、學習的各種領域的知識融入他的藝術創作中。2019年底,侯玉書於台北當代藝術館所舉辦的個展,即是他將能量療法的技術與視覺藝術融合的最佳實例。展場中除了牆面及空間裡展示的畫作,在主要展間中,侯玉書設置了一張按摩床,並為報名參與的美術館觀眾,進行一項名為“Access Bars”的能量療法,這項活動也可視為他的行為藝術。

侯玉書在藝術上的創意,其實持續傳遞著一種富有穿透力的正向思維和能量,而這種思維和能量讓更多的觀者擺脫物質主義羈絆而走向自身內心,把藝術創造無比生動地轉化為一種新紀元式的靈修方式。

 

George Ho (b.1968~)

George Ho was born in Taipei and educated in the United States since the age of 11.  He received his B.A. in Visual and Environmental Studies from Harvard University and pursued further studies in painting and sculpture at the New York Studio School in New York City.  He maintained a painting studio in New York from 1995 until the end of 2003, when he moved his studio back to Taiwan

The majority of Ho’s early works were paintings well combined with scripts, in which the handwritten letters shown at liberty were just like ciphers to solve the mystery of each work, and further conveying the details of stories from life. Another key motive of Ho’s creation was to employ colors in golden ratio, block-shaped patterns in proportion and piling up the pigments, so as to make the works take on refined and harmonic compositions; meanwhile, the indistinctly mystic characteristics exuded from the paintings had become his artistic language and remarkable texture. Moreover, the artist hoped that his making of art could bring the viewers impressive and positive energy.

More than just a visual artist, George Ho is also a practitioner of energetic healing modalities and a jazz singer, and he channels what he learns from these disciplines into the creation of his art works.  A very literal example of his fusing of healing technique and visual art occurred at the end of 2019 at his solo exhibition at the Taipei Museum of Contemporary Art.  In the main exhibition space where his painting works are displayed, he set up a massage table and administered a healing technique called the Access Bars on the museum goers and presented it as performance art.

As far as creativity is concerned, George Ho’s art constantly transmits positive thinking and energy, not only teems with penetration but also makes more and more viewers break away from the materialistic shackles and return to their inner world. For Ho, the making of art can be immeasurably and vividly converted into an epochal way of spiritual formation.