Tishan Hsu's Prescient Yet Apolitical View of Technology
Tishan Hsu’s Prescient Yet Apolitical View of Technology At SculptureCenter, a recent survey takes a narrow look at the artist’s career, focusing on his tech-inspired works from the 1980s and ’90s The medium looks like it could use a good massage in Tishan Hsu’s painted wooden panels. With their rounded corners and painted backs that cast a screen-like glow onto the walls, they suggest our now-ubiquitous smartphones and tablets. Their surfaces are built up with acrylic and enamel to mimic a machine’s casing and frame trompe-l’œil, shadowed displays that make l...
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