Installation view of Wen-hao Tien: It Speaks for Itself at Gaslight Gallery, Frederick, MD.
It Speaks for Itself?
Gaslight Gallery (Frederick, MD)
May 6, 2022 – June 25, 2022
Wen-hao Tien: It Speaks for Itself? showcases my investigation of a wide range of mundane materials, and how I interprets line, sculpture and painting in the inescapable beauty of nature. Although my artistic process is about honing and evolving my thoughts and emotional senses, I am more interested in how you see it. How does a particular piece speak to you? What will you say back?
Adriel Luis describes in his curatorial statement: “We are bombarded with so much content, constant reactions, and no shortage of words – but it remains difficult as ever to find meaning. Sometimes what cannot be communicated must instead be sensed, evoked, intuited. When every moment is followed by endless opinions, this may be the only way we can recall how to trust ourselves.
Artist Wen-hao Tien’s body of work is rich with various plays on language, but it never quite seems to be about what is said or written. Instead, the artist invites us experience how the words land on us, how they feel while ingested, and how we each uniquely respond. It Speaks for Itself? is a new conversation about our nature of communication.”
