Junie Tang SINGAPORE
Justin Lee SINGAPORE
Shin-Young Park KOREA
Urich Lau SINGAPORE
Valerie Ng MALAYSIA
Yeoh Wee Hwee SINGAPORE
Yeo Shih Yun SINGAPORE
白DAY/NIGHT夜 POP UP exhibition Curated by INSTINC
1 July, from 12 to 8PM, at UltraSuperNew Gallery, 168 Tyrwhitt Rd, Singapore 207572.
The artistic process knows no bounds of time, extending beyond the constraints of a fixed schedule. Inspiration can illuminate the artist's path at any given moment, be it the radiant afternoon or the tranquil pre-dawn hours. Embracing this notion, INSTINC proudly presents "白DAY/NIGHT 夜," an ephemeral exhibition showcasing the talents of fourteen artists. 白DAY/NIGHT夜 will feature a brand-new collaboration series on paper by Justin Lee and Yeo Shih Yun, alongside other paintings, collages, drawings, prints, sculptures, photographs, hand-thrown ceramics and many more exciting works. As a harmonious prelude, this event heralds the unveiling of our new Instagram store, inviting you to explore and indulge in a seamless shopping experience that transcends the limitations of day and night.
Featuring works by 14 Artists :
Alba Escayo SPAIN
Andy Yang SINGAPORE
Bridget Tay SINGAPORE
Chan Wan Kyn SINGAPORE
Chang Hui Fang TAIWAN
Ella Magee UK
Hellopigu SINGAPORE
Alba Escayo [Spain]
Currently based in Madrid, Escayo is a critically acclaimed contemporary artist who’s expansive and compelling paintings and interdisciplinary works have garnered her international recognition, and are extensively represented in museums, galleries, and several permanent public and private collections. In addition to a frequent exhibitions the world over, with most recent solo and group exhibitions in Madrid, Singapore, Serbia, France, and Portugal, Escayo maintains a highly engaged and collaborative artist practice, which includes numerous invitational residencies and international projects. Vibrant, masterful, and implicitly expressionistic, Alba Escayo’s paintings converge artistic ingenuity with new media principles in practice which is entirely contemporary. With reference to natural elements, oceanic-landscapes, and travel iconography, Escayo’s painterly collage work is a reinterpretation of the artist’s international travels— acting as both a signifier for contemporary re-engagement, and preservation of, the tradition of exploration place, afar and familiar.
Informed and inspired by the collective multi-culturalism,she employs a similar hybridization of cultural and natural influence in her work, engaging an immersion of icons, colours, and environmental influence in her paintings.
Andy Yang [Singapore]
Andy Yang was born in Malaysia in 1973. He is a multi-disciplinary artist known for his abstract visual and sound experimentations. His explorations between visual art and music led him to the creation of works under musical stimuli with The Observatory. In Anitya 1 (2011) at the Earl Lu Gallery of the Institute of Contemporary Art Singapore, the process of his art-making cycle was exposed in full, from the point of creation to destruction. In his latest ArtScience Late feature at the ArtScience Museum, the work Ceremony (2019) produced together with SAtheCollective, saw the artist celebrate the experiences of human childbirth through an energetic sound performance set against an elaborate visual art installation. Andy was also one of the key artists (in a select group of 8) who presented DE:VOTED (2020) a critically acclaimed immersive art experience at Helutrans for Singapore Art Week 2020—one which featured an intense communion with light, sound, and performance art.
Bridget Tay [Singapore]
Bridget Tay is a Singaporean artist who has attained her Masters of Fine Arts from Goldsmiths, University of London in 2014 and was a recipient of The LASALLE Scholarship in 2013. Her current practice uses painting and clichés as her jump start to whatever interests her at the moment. Right now, Bridget’s painting is a foray into how she can develop a body of visual dictionary that is interlinked to music as a language. Besides being an artist, Bridget has also been an art educator for 9 years and currently spends most of her time teaching art while being inspired by her special needs students.
Chan Wan Kyn [Singapore]
Chan Wan Kyn (b. 1994) is a visual artist and engineer from Singapore. He draws inspiration from the intangible elements of his surroundings, such as negative space, light, and human connection, as well as from exploring familiar and unfamiliar environments. Expressing his concepts through a variety of mediums, multidisciplinary practices, and methodologies, his works manifest themselves in myriad ways, from sculptural forms and immersive installations to digitally curated and generated works. With each iteration, he allows his pieces to evolve over time, exploring different methods and processes to propose new paradigms and perspectives that may inspire a greater sensitivity to the literal and figurative surroundings of his audience. Wan Kyn was part of the pioneer class of School of the Arts, Singapore (SOTA), and has exhibited his installations at the Singapore Art Museum (Singapore, 2009) and iLight Singapore 2012. He graduated with MSc in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University with the goal of melding the arts and STEM fields. He was commissioned to produce two immersive installations for Purdue University’s orientation program (USA, 2022) and has exhibited at INSTINC Gallery (Singapore, 2022), SeongSu NFT Festival (Korea, 2022), and Singapore Art Week's Urban Screens (Singapore, 2023). Wan Kyn recently brought together and international team to exhibited in iLight Singapore 2023 and won the Julius Baer Next Generation Art Prize
Chang Hui-Fang [Taiwan]
Chang Hui-Fang (張慧芳) is an artist who utilized large amounts of Chinese ink, combined with pencil sketching on paper for her initial works In Taiwan. She is passionate about incorporating realism into the abstract. Her first international solo show FAITH, is a series of works that largely employs the approach of ‘Appropriation’ in art. Based on religious art works originating from the 15-17th century, it aims to encourage the contemporary viewer to reflect on their beliefs. These paintings use a composition of charcoal powder in water, the overlapping of various shades of colour and charcoal strokes to depict creatures in the sky. The use of brilliant gold leaf is also deliberately reminiscent of the image of classical art. In its ‘re-construction’ of the work on which it appropriates, each painting adds a layer of meaning to its original message. She won the first prize of Tainan Fine Art Exhibition in 2001. Living in Singapore since 2012, she began to capture the memories and impressions of her new homeland through her works in oil. She has showcased her works at venues such like ION art gallery, Affordable Art Fair, Artspace 222 and Young Art Taipei.
Ella Magee [UK]
Ella Magee, MA, BA, PGCE; is a British/Manx artist known for her ethnographic and anthropological artwork. Her biggest influence is the space and environment in which she lives. Magee produces work in a variety of media including drawing, painting, sculpture, film, performance and photography. Often the process and media are a response to the environment and research. Magee considers the complexity of what it means to be human, the orders, rituals, cultural practices and systems of the land, and the various protective characteristics. She also considers patriarchal normative social systems in her work and how such systems can marginalise. She carefully observes and records life, creating observations of our recent shared history of the Covid pandemic, for example. Since 2021 Magee’s research and interest has been drawn to the ideas of the late architect Le Corbusier, Singapore’s Urban Redevelopment plan of 50 years and the effects of dividing the land and sky in Singapore. She has been considering colonial rule, the brick factories created for prisoners of the colonial empire and the correlation of ancient Manx farming practices. This is a series of work called Smitten.
Hellopigu [Singapore]
Born 1992 in Singapore, Brenda Tan originally started out making drawings and sculptures. Since pursuing her MA Fine Arts at LASALLE College of the Arts, she has been challenging the boundaries set between art and illustration through her work. Most recently, she has developed a moniker HelloPigu, following the life of her character, a Longevity Peach to document everyday occurrences of adulting. Moving out of the realms of digital illustrations, HelloPigu is taking full form by foraying into the physical world. Her recent works include murals at Urban Design Festival (2018) and The Substation (2019), an interactive installation at Night Festival (2019) as well as the debut of her canvas paintings at UltraSuperNew Gallery (2021).
Junie Tang[Singapore]
Junie Tang (b.1978) attained her bachelor’s degree in Visual Communication at Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts (in collaboration with the University of Western Sydney) in 2002. With eight years of experience as a graphic designer and art director in publishing houses and creative design agencies, she started teaching the diploma and degree in Visual Communication programmes at First Media Design School in 2010. After completing a master’s degree programme in Arts and Cultural Management at LASALLE College of the Arts (in collaboration with Goldsmiths, University of London) in 2015, she began making art through the media of photography and printmaking. As a graphic designer-educator who has crossed over to the realm of art, Junie’s interests revolve around the idea of synthesising art and design, and investigating the role of a graphic designer in the society. Currently a PhD candidate at the Nanyang Technological University, School of Art, Design and Media, her research focuses on expanding the role of a graphic designer as a curator, which involves transforming him/her from a problem-solver into a problematiser. Since 2016, Junie has exhibited her works in several group shows, namely, “Double Vision Art Exhibition” at Objectifs (2016), “Dot to Dot” group exhibition at NAFA’s Centre of Lifelong Education (2018), “Interruption, Scenes from Crossroads of Arts and Research” at Selegie Arts Center (2018), “Defamiliarization” at Supernormal (2019), and “The Non-essential Artist Month” at Blue Ocean Fine Art Gallery (2020).
Justin Lee[Singapore]
Justin Lee(born 1963) is a Singaporean visual artist and designer. He has participated in numerous artist-in-residence programs in Japan, such as Fukuoka, Studio Kura, Itoshima Art Farm, and Tokyo Youkobo. After his graduation with a Diploma in Fine Arts, he was one of the selected local artists trained at the Tyler Print Institute in New York. Over the years, he has participated in numerous exhibitions held in Singapore and internationally (2000-2002).
As one of Singapore’s foremost pop artists whose design projects reflect a fine sense of contemporary design flavoured with an essence of Singapore traditions, Justin’s work deserves accolades as both designer and artist. His approach to design is executed with current graphic fundamentals yet reflects traditional techniques such as his ongoing series based on paper-cutting and Chinese woodblock printing styles. The themes and imagery with which he interprets his commissioned design work underscore familiar Asian cultures with a delightful pop treatment that celebrates Asian values in an endearing tongue-in-cheek manner.
In his earlier career, he had been handpicked as one of the first six interns from STPI to work with world-renowned artists such as Frank Stella and Donald Sultan. He believes that art plays an important part in helping people to grow and to see the important role play and awareness of themselves. His works also reflect on words and images from the mass media like signage, billboards and consumer products which control our thoughts and expression.
Shin Young Park[Singapore]
Shin-Young Park is a Korean-born New Zealander who moved to Auckland with her family at 16, and to Singapore in 2006. She completed both her BFA in 1998 and MFA in 2003 at the Elam School of Fine Arts at the University of Auckland (New Zealand). Park is the recipient of the 2005 Iris Fisher Art Award (Best Contemporary Work) in Auckland and 2016 BAZAAR Art Prize (2D Work on Canvas) in Singapore, and was a finalist for the 2004 Trust Waikato National Contemporary Art Award, 2015 New Zealand Painting and Printmaking Award and 2015 Pacific Rim International Print Exhibition.
She has been nominated for the Most Outstanding Emerging Artist Award (New Finds) at ARTSingapore 2009, and represented Singapore at the 10t Triennale Mondale de 'Estampe (2017) in Chamalières, France. Park has participated in international residency programmes such as the 2014 Incheon Art Platform International Residency Program and 2012 Asia Pacific Artists Fellowship Residency Program organized by the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea. Her works have been featured in solo and group exhibitions in Singapore, New Zealand, South Korea, Japan and France, and have been commissioned by Mandarin Oriental Hotel (2008) and Fullerton Bay Hotel (2010). With works spanning different themes and subjects, she is driven by an interest in global social issues, especially when it comes to matters affecting the lives of the underprivileged in society.
Urich Lau[Singapore]
Urich Lau, born 1975, is a visual artist, independent curator, art educator, based in Singapore, and a co-founder of INTER–MISSION and Hothouse. Graduated with a Master of Fine Art from Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in 2004, he is a lecturer at LASALLE College of the Arts. Focusing in video art, photography media art, his has presented works in Singapore and internationally including Argentina, Australia, Canada, China, France, Germany, Greece, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Jordan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Philippines, South Korea, Serbia, Taiwan, Thailand, Ukraine, United Kingdom, United States and Uzbekistan. Exhibitions include Ukrainian Biennale of Digital and Media Art 2021, Pyeongchang Biennale 2017, the 7th Geumgang Nature Art Biennale, Singapore Biennale 2013, VII Tashkent International Biennale of Contemporary Art, Drawing Biennale 2004 (Wakita Museum Of Art) and the Sovereign Asian Art Prize in 2014, 2016 and 2019 in Hong Kong.
His curatorial projects include Negentropic Fields (National Gallery Singapore, 2020) SUPER–TRAJECTORY at Tainan Art Museum (Tainan, 2019) and ArtScience Museum (Singapore, 2020), Sim Lim Square Art Residency (Singapore Art Week 2018), METAGRAPHY at DECK (Singapore, 2017) and MEME Space (Taipei, 2017), Seoul/Singapore Open Media Art Festival 2015 at Gillman Barracks (Singapore, 2015 and Seoul, 2017); The Third Print at Total Museum of Contemporary Art (Seoul, 2014); Videologue at Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore (2012); Videology at The Substation (Singapore, 2008) and Displacement Project: Bandung–Singapore 2006.
Valerie Ng [Malaysia]
Valerie Ng is a visual artist who creates abstract art inspired by nature, in an imaginary journey through colour and texture. Wandering from oil paintings to recent digital art transformations through 20 years of painting. While having a computer science background, she embarked on an art practice after a fine art summer course at The Slade, London in 2002. Thus, prefers spacing out in the handmade realm of paint and paper while seeking a more sustainable eco-friendly art practice in her studio at Goodman Arts Center, Singapore
Her abstract works are created as a result of explorations in colour, light, depth, form and texture while utilizing the expressive qualities of the medium. Through a unique transfer of energy in the action of mark making, the painting process involves a dynamic balance of strokes and subtle variations to convey a sense of mood and movement on the surface be it on canvas or digital screens. Drawing inspiration from the natural elements, hues and shapes in the environment, the works aim to evoke an experience, sensation or atmospheric feel.
A Malaysian based in Singapore, she has exhibited at the Singapore Art Museum as well as the National Art Gallery, Malaysia. With several solo exhibitions, numerous group shows and participation in art fairs across the region. She has won awards in the UOB Painting of the Year competition, Singapore and been a finalist in the Sovereign Asian Art Prize in Hong Kong.
Yeoh Wee Hwee [Singapore]
Yeoh Wee Hwee graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Hons – 1st Class) Fine Art with Contemporary Writing from University of Huddersfield, United Kingdom, in 2006. After receiving her Art Bursary (Oversea) in 2007 from Singapore National Arts Council, she continued to pursue her Master's degree in Fine Art from The Glasgow School of Art, United Kingdom, and graduated in 2009. She is currently a part-time lecturer in LASALLE College of the Arts.
Yeo Shih Yun [Singapore]
Justin Lee x Yeo Shih Yun Collaboration
Yeo Shih Yun (1976, Singapore) is a highly regarded Singaporean artist whose innovative approach to ink painting has garnered international acclaim. After obtaining a Bachelor degree in Business Administration from the National University of Singapore in 1998, Yeo pursued a Diploma in Communication Design at LASALLE-SIA College of the Arts in 2001, followed by the Post Baccalaureate Programme in painting at the San Francisco Art Institute in 2002. Yeo's experimental fusion of traditional ink painting with contemporary mediums such as new media and performance art has resulted in dynamic and unpredictable works that challenge conventional notions of the medium. Her unique creative process has earned her recognition, including a 2011 commission by the Singapore Art Museum and the People's Choice Award for "Conversations with trees," which was nominated for Sovereign Asian Art Prize Finalists in 2012 and auctioned by Christie's Asia. She has also won the UOB Painting of the Year Competition (Distinction in Abstract category) twice, in 1999 and 2007.
Yeo has held exhibitions in major cities including Singapore, Hong Kong, Taipei, Shanghai, Tokyo, and New York, and has completed numerous commissions, including National Gallery Singapore's "My Ink-credible Adventure" and her solo exhibition at Esplanade, titled "Chance Encounters," in 2021. Her groundbreaking works have been showcased in "Generative Art and the Future," hosted by Poly Auction China, and she participated in the "NFTs + The Ever-Evolving World of Art" Tezos exhibition at Art Basel Hong Kong in May 2022. Yeo was also invited to participate in the "Digital Baroque" exhibition and auction curated by 4ART NFT+ marketplace and minted on Palm network.
In 2017, Yeo published her first book, "INKPULSE: the art of Yeo Shih Yun," which chronicles her creative process and highlights her pursuit of new depths and perspectives within and beyond Abstract Expressionism. Additionally, Yeo is the Founder of"INSTINC," an independent art space in Singapore. Yeo's innovative approach to ink art has made a significant impact on the development of the medium both in Singapore and internationally. Her contributions to the art world have been widely recognized and she continues to push the boundaries of the medium with her unique approach and experimental techniques.