Shih Chieh’s Luminosity is organized by the Land of Tomorrow Gallery and artwithoutwalls, in collaboration with the University of Kentucky Department of Art, in conjunction with the IdeaFestival. It consists of a site-specific installation at the Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts, site of the IdeaFestival, and a solo show at the Land of Tomorrow Gallery. 

Taiwanese-born artist, Shih Chieh Huang, is a master of creating worlds populated by his electro-mechanical creations that are at once familiar and distant, quotidian and fantastic.  These environments use subtle, biomorphic movements to get our attention. Beautiful ranges of colors slowly fade in and out, reminding us of the rich, colorful life of an underwater tropical reef.  On closer inspection, they reveal themselves to be clever amalgamations of the everyday objects found in discount convenience stores, controlled by electronic circuitry. This amazing contrast between the visuals and the materials that enable them creates an enticing tension between the magical creatures of our imagination and the everyday references embedded in the components of the installation.

Shih Chieh Huang has exhibited his sculptures and installations at the Busan Biennial, Aichi Triennial, 52nd Venice Biennial Taiwan Pavilion, Biennial Zero1 San Jose, Biennial Cuvée in Austria, the ARC Biennial Australia, the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York and MOCA Shanghai. His solo exhibitions have been held at Smithsonian Institute National Museum of Natural History, RISD Museum of Art, Beall Center for Art and Technology and MOCA Taipei. Huang’s awards include an Artist Research Fellowship from the Smithsonian Institution, a Creative Capital Grant, a Rockefeller Foundation New Media Arts Fellowship, a Joan Mitchell Foundation Sculpture Award, two New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships and residencies at Art Omi, Skowhegan and The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation.

Admission is free to these exhibitions and to the reception.

For further information please contact Angela Torchio at angela@landoftomorrow.org, or visit our website at www.landoftomorrow.org.

About Land of Tomorrow (LOT):
Land of Tomorrow (LOT) Gallery is a project space created to facilitate the making and showing of experimental work in the fields of art, design, and music in Kentucky.  LOT operates galleries in both Lexington and Louisville, supported by a core group of amazing and talented individuals. Through exhibitions, performances, artist talks, work documentation and other activities, LOT fosters an open dialog with the regional and international creative communities.
www.landoftomorrow.org

About artwithoutwalls:
artwithoutwalls is a non-profit, non-collecting art organization launched in 2009 by arts patrons Laura Lee Brown and Steve Wilson. artwithoutwalls joins with artists to present ambitious and unconventional projects in a wide range of media and locations, and collaborates with a broad range of cultural and civic institutions to bring new art to new audiences.
Alice Gray Stites, Director alice@artww.org      www.artww.org

About IdeaFestival:
Founded in 2000, the IdeaFestival (IF) is a world-class event that attracts leading global innovators and thinkers to discuss and celebrate imagination, new perspectives and transformational ideas. The IdeaFestival provides a unique stage to explore the cross-cutting nature of innovation involving a range of diverse disciplines, while supplying the creative tools needed to “see,” synthesize and apply knowledge in new, dynamic ways.
www.ideafestival.com

About University of Kentucky Department of Art:
University of Kentucky Department of Art grants degrees in Art Studio, Art History, and Art Education. Graduate and undergraduate students are taught by a number of faculty recognized nationally and internationally for their high level of research and creative activity. Large enough to present a diversity of creative experiences, yet small enough to offer personal attention to individuals, the department offers the only terminal professional degree in Studio Art, the MFA, in the Commonwealth.
https://www.uky.edu/FineArts/Art/