關於 Eiku 小熊

“Eiku”小熊誕生於2018年5月,他有著粉色的皮膚,隨著心情變化會變成不同的顏色。他沒有眼睛,更不想用眼睛看世界,或許是因為看見的事物不一定是真實,又或許視覺使我們錯過許多的美好,因此我認為即使社會中充斥著複雜與混亂,世界仍充滿著無限可能,就像Eiku想用自己的耳朵和鼻子去探索並用心去感覺、感受、感知,並期望透過Eiku內在所見的純粹去安撫、療癒人們的心靈。

正因為創作使我心靈富足、讓我找回從前的自己,

因此我希望觀賞著我的畫的你,能感受到相同的溫暖與平靜,如同“Eiku”小熊用心靈在看著世界。

My approach is to paint from different times and spaces, with different elements in the painting representing different feelings, develop and challenge myself by knowing where to encounter them. This series started four years ago. From the beginning of this series are just sketches of landscape and still-life without a figure in it, while searching and recording human gestures and emotions on their face I decided to draw a bear instead of painting a human figure. The motivation for painting a bear instead of a human figure is because recognizing the emotion on a human's face makes me feel a sense of lying, so I decided to paint an “eyeless” bear to show the unwillingness of seeing, through listening, reacting toward the world.

Painting eyeless bears as a human to alleviate my childhood, as a child encountering countless conditions that made me unable to speak, the bear illustrates the desire to be in a fairy tale, and to express the appreciation of things inside the fairy tale world compared to reality. I began by using specific colors and brushstrokes to present my feelings within different scenes. Overlapping each dab of brushstrokes in the bear creates a softness to it. I choose warm colors to better represent the sense of healing. I paint the bear in different scenes to show the environment around it and the role the bear play

關於Eiku小熊

王艾琳 插畫家/陶藝家

誕生於2000年台灣新竹市,持續地創作小熊去表現不同內心的情緒、透過童話般的畫面隱含著與現實的對比。現正攻讀芝加哥藝術學院的藝術學士學位(SAIC)並將於2023年畢業。

她的作品曾在台灣的S. Bleu Creative Art Gallery(2021)展出。

Eileen Wang is a painter and ceramicist.

She explores painting eyeless bears as a human to alleviate a child encountering countless conditions. The bear illustrates the desire to be in a fairy tale, and to express the appreciation of things inside the fairy tale world compared to reality. She was born in (2000) in Hsinchu, Taiwan, and currently living in Taiwan. She holds a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) and will graduate in 2023. Her work is exhibited back in Taiwan in S.Bleu Creative Art Gallery(2021).

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獎項/殊榮 AWARDS/HONORS
2019 Merit Scholarship School of the Art Institute of Chicago
展覽 EXHIBITION
2021 Eiku's Food and color, S.Bleu Creative Arts. , Taiwan
教育 EDUCATION
2023 BFA of Fine Arts in Fine arts
    School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL