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Lisa Hsieh

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Los Angeles, CA, United States

Creative Fields

Fine Arts, Design

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acrylic, painting, ink, pencil, charcoal, oil, art, mixed media, fine art, architecture

Artist Background

Design Experience
Narita Architects, Denim of Virtue, Bebe, Arden B., Guess, Marciano, Sue Wong, Cort Denim, OWB Inc.

Exhibitions & Awards
Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Society Member
2009 Phi Kappa Phi Scholarship Recipient
"Geometric Splatter" CSULB Design Department Installation, October 2008
“Insights” CSULB University Art Museum Annual Juried Student Art Exhibition, Merit Award recipient, May 2008
“Windows” AESA Annual Student Art Show, February 2008
“The Waiting Room” UCSD Art Department Art Show Artist. Honorable Mention, November 2004
“Comfort Zone” UCSD Solo Exhibition, Sept 2004
“Yellow America” UCSD Asian American Alliance Group Show, June 2004
“Lisa Hsieh” UCSD Cultural Center solo exhibition, March 2003
“Operation Orange” UCSD Group Art Show directed by artist, Professor Faith Ringgold, May 2002
U.S. House of Representatives 2000 Congressional Art Competition - 4th place.

Artist Statement

Consumers are mesmerized by the ideal that happiness and satisfaction can only be fulfilled through material acquisitions; corporate and media giants only perpetuating that illusion. One subconsciously spends his whole life building upon this myth - buying, wearing, using, and trashing, then repeating the cycle all over again in the hopes of presenting an image of him that he wishes himself to be. The U.S. consumer is an exhibitionist. This is a phenomenon of consumption propelled by Capitalism. By collecting images from popular periodicals, I have the components of rendering portraits of typical modern-day life. I paint abstract moments that occur in one’s mind during the process of making choices in a market place as a consumer; to capture the moment of suspended contemplation when one begins connecting the purchase of an item to a promise of a better quality of life. These moments are dreamlike, rendered by the large pools of poured acrylic paint onto the surfaces. They are spaces that one’s subconscious retreats to when, for a few seconds, one is disconnected from reality and has drifted into a cloud of imagination and hope- all inspired by a man-made product. Essentially, material acquisition is a means of identity construction. The drive of consumerism is the human desire for progress and prosperity. The correlation of objects in life and the memories and meanings they therefore represent will always be of interest to me.

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