
Stanley Chen
陳嘉俊(Stanley Chen,1997年生於澳洲)童年時隨家人從雪梨移居廣東佛山,2020年畢業於美國紐約視覺藝術學院。在不同國家與城市的來回生活,使陳嘉俊在繪畫中專注於其流動身份的表現。他自傳式的創作將其對自身的思想、行為、與感受安置在了畫布之上,也同時對文化差異、傳統禁錮等生命經驗提出了挑戰—不試圖用語言來解釋,而是以具象又莫名的繪畫來回答身份的矛盾與衝突。《野生的陳嘉俊跳了出來》(2020)引述了Game Boy遊玩《精靈寶可夢》的畫面,而藝術家成為了野生的寶可夢角色,強硬地讓觀眾面對他的形貌;另一件作品《對不起,我恐怕變不成飛蛾了》(2020)以幼蠶遮擋藝術家的臉部,暗示了對於某種期待的反抗。2022年,陳嘉俊和另一位展出藝術家賈一瑞參展LATITUDE Gallery New York聯展「Conceive」。
Stanley Chen (b. 1997, Australia) moved to Foshan, Guangdong as a child and later graduated from School of Visual Arts, New York in 2020. Living back and forth in various countries, Chen’s painting focuses on his lingering identity. He paints his thoughts, behaviors and feelings toward himself into self-portraits as a way to write his own autobiography and to challenge the cultural differences and the restraints of the tradition. In Wild Stanley Jumps Out From the Bush (2020), Chen appears on the canvas like how a Pokémon appears on a Game Boy screen, inviting the audience to confront his appearance. Sorry I can’t turn into moth (2020) sees the artist covering his face with a silkworm, implying his resistance to some kind of expectation. In 2022, Chen exhibited with YiRui Jia, another artist in the show, in the group show “Conceive” at LATITUDE Gallery, New York.