Frame To The Other End Opens At Crystal Gallery

Exciting multi-media artist Chang Lishan invites the viewer to experience a transcendence linking one world to another, via the metaphor of window frames linking life events in 2005 and morphing into the realm of the new year, 2006.

Whether a real or imagined frame defines our culture, we live within a framework in our daily lives, ever changing, like the cellular structure in our bodies changes every minute.

While a frame limits one’s view of the world, Chang Lishan strives to create an infinity frame of the mind, where the concepts are framed in borderless scenarios, where the possibilities are endless.

In a culture where people work diligently to excel in performing within a regimented structure, the artist’s goal is to deconstruct the frame, opening one’s imagination to a higher plane of thought where the artistic images within the frame conceptually convey a moment in one’s life.

Chang Lishan is inspired by the Crystal windows and door portfolio, as these products relate to visual frames and entrance pathways between personal spaces and public worlds. Like a movie scene, each advancing frame tells a piece of the story and helps define our perception of the moment, ignite our imagination, and fuel our emotions.

The multi-media exhibit combines computer synthesized music, and visual effects to expand your imagination outside the frame you see before you.

The artist’s vision is to manipulate common everyday materials such as plastic film, in new ways, to expand our interpretation of objects, and ultimately morph our sense of the moment.

In Chang Lishan’s 2003 Taiwan exhibition, “Shipping to Taiwan”, he married images of time lapse photography with striated linear tension lines of plastic film to convey the passage of time associated with shipping. Another 2003 exhibition, “storage”, is sculptural storage, where he locks objects within a protective cocoon–like skin, offering viewers a metaphor of internal organs of society wrapped in a skin of plastic reality.

Chang Lishan’s 2004 installation exhibitions included womb like environments where reclining nude human forms appeared to be suspended in a weightless reality, where a moment in life is expressed by gravity-defying stretched plastic film.

In his installation, “Stacie’s yard”, the visual metaphor of viewing nature through a barrier of stretched plastic film that represents the man-made structure of one’s life, one is presented with a unique compilation of two images married together—one, the image of nature, and one the reflection back of the viewer and of light, which evokes self-reflection of one’s relationship with nature.

Chang Lishan views himself as part installation artist and part illusionist. His multi-dimensional installations invite the viewer to experience frameworks as portals to new planes of thought with respect to nature and life. His stretched plastic films and hard frame structures are infused with ethereal vocals and electronically illuminated color palettes, touching upon a wide array of the viewer’s senses.

The Frame to the Other End Exhibition, December 15 to January 8, is sponsored by the Crystal Foundation Art Gallery located at 31-10 Whitestone Expressway, Flushing. For more information, call 718-961-7300 x3233. Gallery hours are noon to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.