LA’s Hive Gallery artists exhibit works in Taiwan
LA’s Hive Gallery artists exhibit works in Taiwan
2025-09-19
A group of artists from the Hive Gallery and Studios in Los Angeles are exhibiting their works in Taiwan. They are showcasing a diverse range of contemporary works that span illustration, sculpture, mixed media, and ceramics. FTV reporter Stephany Yang spoke with the artists to learn more about their works.
Nathan Cartwright is a mixed-media artist and the founder and curator of The Hive Gallery and Studios in downtown Los Angeles. His work has been showcased internationally, and he is recognized for curating large-scale art exhibitions across the United States and Asia. One of his signature shows, ULTRAHIVE 3, recently made its way to Taiwan, featuring works by artists from around the world. During their visit, the participating artists also took part in a residency program in Tamsui, organized by Da Gang Art Gallery.
Nathan Cartwright
Hive Gallery and Studio founder
This show started in Osaka and it has been moving around the world at this point. From Osaka, to Tokyo, to Los Angeles, to Oakland, and finally Taipei. You can expect all different mediums of arts, from photography to mixed-media and sculpture, and even fabric work like this artist here sewed her piece. The idea was to do small art that is easy to transport cross-country and around the world.
Shih Chun-mao
Taiwanese calligrapher
This time, we’ve specially invited international artists from Los Angeles to participate in an exhibition and lectures. The goal is to offer Taiwanese audiences an opportunity to engage with globally renowned art and culture and to broaden their artistic horizons. In addition to the exhibition, we’ve also provided an international artist village, featuring accommodations and creative space in Tamsui, allowing the visiting artists to live and create during their stay in Taiwan.
For his exhibition in Taiwan, Cartwright specially crafted a series of works housed within jewelry boxes, using Super Sculpey as his primary medium.
Nathan Cartwright
Hive Gallery and Studio founder
All the pieces were made in drawers from a jewelry box. I like finding antiques, something that I can sculpt inside. You can see little handles on some of them. These pieces were made with a newer medium called Super Sculpey. It is a polymer clay, so you can cook it in an oven; you don’t need a kiln to cook it. It cooks hard and it can be painted with acrylic paint. It is really good for mixed media because you can put in sticks and stones.
Olivia Obrecht is an award-winning illustrator and tattoo artist, known for her bold black-and-white compositions and meticulous stippling technique. Her work explores themes of transformation and personal growth, often drawing inspiration from nature-particularly flowers, birds, and landscapes. Her works are greatly influenced by the Art Nouveau movement and her formative years spent in Japan. Recently, her artistic journey led her to Taiwan for an art residency, where she created new works inspired by Taiwanese calligrapher Shih Chun-mao.
Olivia Obrecht
Artist
This is one of the ones I created in Taiwan since I came here. Our first weekend in town, we were invited to go to master Shih Chun-mao’s calligraphy studio, and we got to watch one of his classes and observe. I was really inspired by his works and the movement of his brush strokes, and the aesthetic of everything. He actually gifted us some book of some of his works. In that, there were a couple of pieces Ii really liked and admired so I brought that into my own work. I was studying that for references and really incorporated that into the brush strokes and was inspired by that movement.
Joseph Kowalczyk is an award-winning sculptor and painter. In this exhibition, he presents a series of porcelain sculptures. One piece explores the themes of resilience and overcoming adversities.
Joseph Kowalczyk
Artist
This one is called "A Spirit Reborn." It is actually about standing up for yourself. It is about staying on top and overcoming life’s challenges. You can see the in the figure, standing proudly on top of a defeated beast and this is also an acknowledgment that some of the things that we oppose or we fight against or some of the things we dislike are actually part of us. You can see it in the teeth that are in the beast and also in the helmet of the person who is wearing the armor.
Their works will be on display at the Da Gang Art Gallery in Taipei until Sept. 21.
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涵蓋多種藝術形式 洛杉磯蜂巢畫廊作品來台展出
2025-09-19
來自洛杉磯蜂巢畫廊與工作室的藝術家正在台灣展出他們的作品。他們展出當代作品涵蓋插畫、雕塑、混合媒材和陶瓷等多種藝術形式。一起來看看。
納森凱特賴特是一位來自美國洛杉磯的複合媒材藝術家，同時也是蜂巢畫廊與工作室的創辦人與策展人。他的作品曾於國際展出，同時以策劃遍佈美國的大型藝術節展覽而聞名，他的標誌性展覽之一"ULTRAHIVE 3"最近來到台灣，展出了來自世界各地的藝術家的作品。訪台期間，參展藝術家也參加了由大岡藝術空間在淡水舉辦的駐村計畫。
[[蜂巢畫廊與工作室的創辦人 納森凱特賴特]]
"這場展覽始於大阪，目前已在世界各地巡迴展出。從大阪到東京，再到洛杉磯、奧克蘭，最後來到台北。展覽涵蓋了各種藝術媒介，從攝影到混合媒材和雕塑，甚至還有像這位藝術家一樣用布料縫製的作品。展覽的理念是創作一些容易跨國及全球運輸的小型藝術作品"
[[知名書法家 施春茂]]
"這次特別邀請來自美國LA國際藝術家的展出跟講座，目的就是要讓我們台灣的觀眾，能藉這個機會認識國際有名的藝術文化，跟國際上藝術的風貌，拓寬視野。我們還提供在淡水有一個國際藝術村，他們來台灣除了展覽，我們還提供給他們住跟創作的空間"
為了在台灣舉辦的展覽，納森凱特賴特製作了一系列放在珠寶盒中的作品，以超級黏土作為主要媒材。
[[蜂巢畫廊與工作室的創辦人 納森 凱特賴特]]
"所有作品都是用一個珠寶盒的抽屜做成的。我喜歡尋找古董，一些可以在裡面雕刻的東西。你可以看到有些古董上還有小把手。這些作品是用一種叫做”超級黏土”的較新的材料製作的。它是一種聚合物黏土，所以你可以在烤箱裡燒製，不需要窯爐。它燒製後很硬，可以用壓克力顏料上色。它非常適合用於混合媒介，因為你可以用它來做木棍和石頭"
奧莉維亞奧布雷希特是一名插畫家及刺青師，以其大膽的黑白構圖和細緻的點畫技法而聞名。她的作品探索蛻變和個人成長的主題，靈感通常源自於大自然，尤其是花鳥和風景。她的作品深受新藝術運動以及她在日本的成長經歷的影響。最近，她前往台灣進行藝術駐留，並創作了受知名書法家施春茂啟發的新作品。
[[藝術家 奧莉維亞奧布雷希]]
"這是我來台灣後創作的作品之一。我們來到台灣的第一個週末，受邀去施春茂大師的書法工作室，旁聽了他的一堂課，並觀察了一番。他的作品、他筆觸的靈動，以及萬物的美感，都深深地觸動了我，他還送了我們一本他的作品集，裡面有幾幅我非常喜歡和欣賞的作品，所以我就把它們融入自己的作品中。我當時正在研究這些作品作為參考，並真正地將其融入我的筆觸中，並從他的筆觸中獲得了靈感"
約瑟夫科瓦爾奇克是一位屢獲殊榮的雕塑家和畫家，本次展覽中，他展出了一系列瓷雕作品，其中一件作品探討了韌性和克服逆境的主題。
[[藝術家 約瑟夫 科瓦爾奇克]]
"這幅畫名為「靈魂重生」，它實際上是關於為自己挺身而出，關於克服生活中的挑戰。你可以在畫中看到，驕傲地站在野獸的背上，這也顯示，我們所反對、所抗爭的某些事物，或是我們所厭惡的某些事物，其實都是我們自身的一部分。你可以從野獸的牙齒，以及身披盔甲的人的頭盔中看到這一點"
他們的作品將在大岡藝術空間 展出至9月21日。
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