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FOXRIVER is proud to present Duong Nguyen’s new wall size drawings!  She is just finishing up her degree at La Salle College of the Arts. (BA graduation is this week as well! May 24th.  more info here) 

Duong’s prefer weapon of choice is pencil.  sometimes on paper, sometimes on other materials.  oh by the way, she is from Hanoi, Vietnam! she has been living here for the last three years studying.  the following is from her website:

Her current body of work takes a turn and touches on the notion of “Dépaysement” whose meaning is not necessarily and inherently tied down to “the lost sense of belonging and perhaps exile of an individual when displaced from his or her own home country”. It however derives from the lack of connection with her being a Vietnamese when she starts questioning the origin of the Utopian worlds of her creation. In parallel with the continuation of her practice in illustration, drawing and writing, Duong explores an entirely new language of installation in an attempt to bring her fictional characters into 3 dimensional realm - closer to her subject of study, where the disassociation and misanthropic apathy between individuals to one another and to the exterior world is apparent yet largely ignored.

you can see more of her beautiful, delicate, sometime surrealistic, melancholic pieces on her website.  we will come back with more info and the interview at a later date.  stay tuned.

FOXRIVER is proud to present a new exhibition by artist Wong Kel Win.  Kel Win is now serving his duty at Nation Service.  His new exhibition titled “The Pacifying Experience” reflects his time spend in the army.  here is what he has to say: 

“The Pacifying Experience” is a reflection of my service in the army. During the past 17 months, I have learnt how the army system operates and have also been through the various training platforms in order to become a solider or you may say, “A Singaporean Son”.

Pacifying has become a part of us during those hardships and discomfort we’ve encountered. 

This is especially true during days when notices were only given at the very last minute, causing us to sacrifice and “burn” our precious weekends. But we do not have a choice, all we can do is just “Suck thumb la”. (A common saying in the army meaning suck it up, press on and bite the bullet!)

Kel Win is a La Salle graduate.  He plans to go back to get his master degree when he finish his tme at NS.  He will be free in November this year.  Buy him an ice-cream if you see him. in the meantime, you can see his work on www.wongkelwin.com.

more info coming up soon!

after much hiatus, FOXRIVER is back on track! first we would like to thank Jamie for the drawing pieces last month.

now we are proud to present Ashley Yeo’s new installation work at FOXRIVER.  You might have seen her installation, Cessation at 8Q Singapore Art Museum last December.  here is the link to that.

Ashley finished La Salle last year, now she is getting her master of art at Chelsea College of Art and Design in London.

you may see her other work on her website, http://yeoashley.net/

for her work in FOXRIVER, we had to re-do the wooden floor.  can you tell the difference?  also the ceiling is completely re-done also.  this has to be the more elaborate installation at FOXRIVER yet.

later we will have more info about this new piece, titled appropriately, Room

yup, after a long winter hibernation, FOXRIVER is back and running faster than ever! sprinting out the cave, holding a notepad, writing down new ideas and new inspiration…spring is around the corner, and all the critters in the woods knows it.  its written on the pale morning blue sky…

first up, artist Jamie Chan is exhibiting three wall size drawing in the gallery.  Jamie Chan is currently living in Los Angeles.  She made these new drawings when she visited Singapore for the first time.

Later on there will be an interview with her posted, as well as more info on the other up coming exhibitions.

In progress, everything is ALWAYS in progress.

FOXRIVER will be back in full swing this Feb. 

Coming Soon! (Jamie Chan is up first)

FOXRIVER is currently on Hiatus Status.  Will be back in the running July 2011.  Any Question regarding future plan please email us at fox.river.space@gmail.com

Have a good winter, everyone!

See the interview with director Michael Madsen about his new documentary Into Eternity, which is about the world’s first permanent nuclear waste repository, Onkalo.  Check out the beautiful trailer here.  

The article is via Friend of Pleistocene, “a research and communication design organization. We are dedicated to exploring the conjuncture between landscape and contemporary human activity at sites shaped by the geologic epoch of the Pleistocene”

Nuclear waste, human presence, geological excavation, time, machines…what more can you ask for?

There is a nice article about Mike Mignola and his works, which includes Hellboy, B.P.R.D., and Abe Sapien.  From Bldgblog:

The buildings, terrains, and spaces Mignola’s plots take place within are equally extraordinary: there are remote, factory-like castles north of the Arctic Circle, wired floor-to-ceiling with arcane laboratory equipment; maritime plagues and New England shipwrecks; intelligent geological formations in space, larger than planets, signaling down to Army radar stations at the end of World War II; abandoned mines and ruined churches; Mayan fragments mounted on the luxurious, candlelit walls of Alpine mansions; Nazi conspiracies and fallen astronauts; derelict Victorian houses wrapped in fog on the coastal moor. 

In the interview Mignola talks about Goth architecture, ruins, and the process of drawing.  via bldgblog