“Why Nude Why Not” is a solo exhibition and book launch by Loh Khee Yew, featuring fifty of his works on nude as an art subject from 1990 – 2016.
This exhibition traces the pre-eminence of the female nude as a dominant creative force in Loh’s works, and his exploration of this theme through a range of different techniques and mediums like ink, conte, pastel, acrylic and mixed media. His main body of work traces the female figure through line and ink, where his expressive lines sculpt the formal beauty of human anatomy. Loh’s constant striving towards the ideal of timeless beauty through the mastering of the line for an eternal form; that is, the human body.
About the Artist
Loh Khee Yew is an artist and pioneer in design education in Singapore. After studying art, design and advertising at the Alberta College of Art in Canada on a Colombo Plan scholarship in the late ‘60s, he returned in Singapore to work in advertising and subsequently pioneered the design curriculum at LASALLE College of the Arts as the dean of the design faculty from 1992 to 1995. As an adjunct lecturer, he conducted cross cultural studies at the Temasek Polytechnic and life drawing classes at NYU Tisch Asia. Concurrently a practising artist with Joseph McNally’s Group 90 artists’ alliance (an arts group committed to the study and artistic representation of the nude), he retired from teaching in 1996 to focus on art-making. Since then, he has become an established Singapore contemporary artist, known for his unmistakable style and his skill at using calligraphic strokes to illustrate the human body.
Free Admission.
Exhibition dates: Friday, 14 October – Tuesday, 18 October 2016 (11am to 8pm daily)
Art Preview: Friday, 14 October 2016, 3 – 6pm
Art Talk and Demonstration: Saturday, 15 October 2016, 3pm
To attend the art talk and demonstration session, please RSVP to: info@visualartscentre.sg
Venue: Visual Arts Centre
When: 15 Oct 2016, 3pm
By: Visual Arts Centre Exhibition Gallery
