Brook Hsu

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Russell Tovey and Robert Diament c/o Independent Talent

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🗓️ 4 April 2024

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

We meet artist Brook Hsu. We discuss other worlds, the power of storytelling, the colour green, the drive to make paintings and making art at your own pace.

BROOK HSU (b. 1987 Pullman, Washington) deploys and weaves the autobiographical and the mythopoetic into paintings using an array of materials, including ink, oil paint, industrial carpets, and off-cuts of ready-made lumber. The sources for Hsu’s imagery come from her own observations, sometimes arising from art history, film and literature.

Working across painting, drawing, sculpture and writing, her works aim to question how we define representation today, producing abstract and figurative works that employ a host of signs and motifs, recounting stories of love, pain and humor. Hsu says of her practice, 'I seek to understand what we value in life by asking how we value the world.'

Taiwanese-American artist Brook Hsu grew up in Oklahoma, received her BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute in 2010 and her MFA from Yale University in 2016. Hsu currently lives and works in New York and Wyoming.

Recent solo exhibitions include: Kiang Malingue, Hong Kong (2022); Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin (2021); Manual Arts, Los Angeles, USA (2021); Bortolami Gallery, New York (2019). Group exhibitions include: Reference Material, Adler Beatty, New York (2022), The Practice of Everyday Life, Derosia Gallery, New York (2022), Sweet Days of Discipline, Hannah Hoffman, Los Angeles (2022); kaufmann repetto, New York and Milan (2021), More, More, More (curated by Passing Fancy), TANK, Shanghai (2020); LIFE STILL, CLEARING, New York (2020); The End of Expressionism, Jan Kaps, Cologne (2020); Polly, Insect Gallery, Los Angeles (2019-2020); A Cloth Over a Birdcage, Château Shatto, Los Angeles (2019); Finders’ Lodge, in lieu, Los Angeles (2019); and Let Me Consider It from Here, The Renaissance Society, Chicago (2018-2019).

Her work is part of the collections of X Museum, Beijing; Long Museum, Shanghai.

Follow @Broooooooooooooook on Instagram. Thanks to Brook's galleries @KraupaTuskanyZeidler

and @KiangMalingue

Visit KT-Z: https://www.k-t-z.com/artists/94-brook-hsu/

Visit Kiang Malingue: https://kiangmalingue.com/artists/brook-hsu/

See also Gladstone Gallery: https://www.gladstonegallery.com/exhibition/10551/brook-hsu/info

and this article from Various Artists: https://various-artists.com/brook-hsu/

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1:04.7	Good afternoon, good evening, wherever you are in the world, I'm Russell Tovey and I'm Robert. This is Talkard.
1:15.0	Welcome to Talkard. How are you today, Robert? Today Russell, I am feeling otherworldly.
1:22.0	Oh, that's a nice feeling. And I'm also... I am feeling otherworldly.
1:22.6	Oh, that's a nice feeling.
1:24.0	And I'm also feeling contemplative
1:26.6	because that's actually a word also that I associate a lot with today's guests' work
1:31.0	just because of the kind of intensity of the paintings.
1:35.6	There's just an aura to them which is really contemplative and actually like kind of
1:41.2	has really affected both of us very directly. It's really powerful work, but I'm also thinking about myth making and myths and
1:50.1	storytelling and autobiography and all these kind of ideas merging in one which kind of gives you
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