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I’m Chinese artist, I am Suling Wang

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I live in a little countryside this
is a my painting commission called our

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American Institute in Taiwan when I was
painting them I always very naturally

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bring my past or thought of thinking who
in my painting but it’s just very

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natural to paint

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sometimes the painting would tell me
what they are need I don’t mean to force

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myself thinking I want to put that here

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and for this piece for the American
Institute in Taiwan how I hear is it’s many

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come from my life in Taiwan
Kampai with Western culture and Eastern

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culture

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I’m Lane Twitchell I’m an artist I was
commissioned by the Art in Embassies

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program to create a work which is called
Day Zoo for the American Institute in Taipei

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the work is 5 feet square and is a
depiction of

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some of the animals in the Taipei zoo so
within Day Zoo one of my goals was to try

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to use monochrome sheets of paper moving
from white through greens and blues to

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depict the natural world and to give us
a sort of abstracted totality of the zoo

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on a bright clear summer day

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my name is Ysabelle Lemay me and I am an
artist living in Austin Texas in 2016 I

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was commissioned by the Art in Embassies
to create a monumental mural that was

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based on the flora and fauna of Taiwan
so my photo expeditions in Taiwan

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allowed me to see the magic of that
beautiful place there is many

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distinctive landscapes and they all have
their distinctive look from the north

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south east west is completely unique
landscapes and so of course I was

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influenced by that

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my name is Adam Sorenson and I’m an oil
painter that’s what I do I draw my

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inspiration from a lot of places
primarily painting in general I’ve

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always viewed the whole historical
continuum of painting as an important

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reference so about 10 years ago I
started painting these psychedelic

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landscapes and I was inspired by sort of
Yes album covers and posters that

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teenagers might have on their walls and
you know sort of the floating world

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imagery of Japanese printmaking was
right there and also just the

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embellished romanticism of 19th century
landscape painting so as I begun

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painting this subject matter a subject
matter began to blend with almost just

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sort of the process that was sort of
taking shape and so that sort of

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continues today

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I’m Ryan McGinnis I’m an artist we are
here in my studio in Chinatown in

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downtown Manhattan I was commissioned by
Art in Embassies to create a series of

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paintings that would be installed in the
American Institute of Taiwan in Taipei

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there’s a long term project which was
great because it gave me the time I

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needed to do the research that was
required to do what I wanted to do and

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that was to develop a series of 100
drawings that was based on the the

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culture and the history of Taiwan and
then build a series of paintings using

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those drawings as the ingredients a lot
of the meaning for me is embedded in the

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individual drawings when they come
together and are juxtaposed and layered

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up on top of each other within the
paintings you get these you know

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wonderful unexpected interpretations
that weren’t part of my initial

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intention

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my work creating art is just for heart I
never really think about this show

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this should be saying something I’m kind
of more a quiet artist I describe my

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life from stage to stage stage the flora
so vibrant it really described the

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culture here in Taiwan because people
are very friendly they’re very passionate

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about their friends and passionate about
nature so it does have this culture

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energy uses flowers