RED , an art exhibition co-presented by
Foster Eastman and #HAJIGALLERISTS

Featuring works by
Mini Choi,
Foster Eastman,
Donald Graham,
John Grey,
Chet Lam (Lam Yat Fung),
Jeremy Lee,
Michael Lee.

Curated by Mini Choi and Michael Lee [ #HAJIGALLERISTS ]

Exhibition Opening: July 31, 2015 [ Friday ] 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Exhibition Period: July 31 - Aug 08, 2015 [ Tuesday to Saturday or By Appointment ]

Address: Foster Eastman Gallery, 1442 West Pender St., Vancouver, B.C. Canada
Enquiry: www.michaelmichaelmichael.com

In 2012, #HAJIGALLERISTS did a painting exhibition, “Red” with Hong Kong Repertory Theatre in Hong Kong. “Red” is an award winning Broadway play about the legendary Russian-American artist Mark Rothko. The play is adapted in Cantonese by Hong Kong Repertory Theatre, the longest standing and largest professional theatre company. “Red” premiered at Hong Kong City Hall Theatre on July 6, 2012.

The “RED” exhibited at Hong Kong City Hall on July 6 to July 15, 2012 and H.A.J.I. Gallery on July 18 to July 31, 2012. Co-presented by Foster Eastman, Mini Choi, and Michael Lee, RED is multi-media art exhibition curated by #HAJIGALLERISTS.

As extended explorations riding on the experiences from the play on Mark Rothko, or a painting exhibition about a play, RED redefines a group of artists’ cognitions on “Red”. In 2015, #HAJIGALLERISTS and Foster Eastman co-present “Red” in Vancouver, Canada. After 3 years, we are taking the Red exhibition to a whole new level, with the participation of Mini Choi, Foster Eastman, Donald Graham, John Grey, Chet Lam (Lam Yat Fung), Jeremy Lee, and Michael Lee, the new 2.0 version of Red exhibition shows how the artists revolutionised the new red in various forms of art media including installation, music, painting, photography, and multi-media works. For centuries, artists strived to use the best reds to express the spirit and symbolism of this color. Red references various ways by which red has figured into cultures around the world. Red has colored the finest art and expressions
of our daily life. The symbolic meaning of red signified the extremeness: power, passion, danger, courage, anger, romance, and even violence. In the Red exhibition, artists recreate Red-ism.
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Artists Profile:

Jeremy Lee:
Jeremy Lee is an industrial designer and graduate from Emily Carr University who specializes in innovative products and project development ranging in largely wood based material, smart hardware, fabrics, metal and glass. His works exemplifies the idea of tensegrity and tension related structures inspired by Buckminster Fuller and the sublime characteristics of nature molded by human hands and culture that inhabits it.

Jeremy founded Konisa Studio based on this concept; a smart wood design & local company designed to “make work better” through product innovation and user research.

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Foster Eastman:
Foster Eastman is a multimedia artist whose work examines social and cultural issues often shrouded in taboo and stigma.
Recent exhibitions have considered diverse issues including the historical atrocities that occurred under Mao Tse-tung during the cultural revolution in China, the challenges that Canadian veterans returning from Afghanistan face as they reintegrate into civilian life, as well collaborative works that leverage visual arts to give voice to Canadian’s experiences with depression and suicide. Working with the instructions of Xwa-lack-tun, Rick Harry (Coast Salish, Kwakiutl), Foster Eastman directed a team of Veterans to create a tribute pole carved from caskets, for the project that is designed to bring awareness to the challenges facing Veterans returning from Afghanistan.

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Donald Graham was headed into a career in art 42 years ago but instead, went off in other directions. However, he kept a hand in doing inspired creating in several fields and mediums.
He has now, for the past several years returned to art, inspired by the work of The New York School of abstract expressionism. Particularly Yves Klein and Jules Olitski.
Don works with colour and texture, incorporating cloth, burlap, plaster, paper, shellac, dye, paint, wax and metallic leaf.
Last year he was part of a meaningful exhibit to raise awareness of PTSD in the Canadian Military.
His work is in institutional and private collections.
Available pieces can be found on his website www.donald-graham.com. And, he will eagerly accept commissions.

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John Grey:
Spencer Graham, otherwise known as "John Grey", is a hip-hop/electronic bass producer from Vancouver BC, and is currently based out of Los Angeles. For the last 3 years he's gone from a promising career as a sound editor/designer for film and television, to switching full-time to music production and Djing and taking his talents to LA.
With a sound that is unique yet appealing, a cross blend of a traditional hip hop rhythm and swing with melodic electronica, he has been making a name for himself and catching eyes both in Vancouver and in LA. With some strong independent releases, and an upcoming EP, this kid has a bright future in the industry.



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Chet Lam
Producer, singer, song writer, traveler. Chet Lam started his own label LYFE Music in 2003, and now has 15 critically and commercially acclaimed Cantonese, English and Mandarin albums and a long list of sold out live shows under his belt.
Much loved by music critics, specially in China, Lam has been notably awarded in various fields, including two-time Best Folk Artist of the Year in the Chinese Media Music Awards in China, Best song written for a movie in the Golden Horse Awards in Taiwan, and Best Singer Songwriter in 903 Music Awards in Hong Kong. Apart from being one of the most important Chinese music icons of this generation, Lam is also a best selling author with 7 collective writings published so far, inlcuding his joint effort with Leif Creative for the bilingual cookbook 《Slow Foods in Asia's Fast Cities》.
Lam's fluency in Cantonese, Mandarin and English in writing and performing has brought him prestigious opportunities to be invited to collaborate with a lot of performing artists around the world including the French Bohemian group Moriarty and Grammy-nodded Venezuelen accapella group Vocal Sampling, writing national hits for acts such as Eason Chan, Stephanie Sun Yanzi, Elva Xiao, Sammi Cheng, Power Station, Gigi Leung to name a few.
Apart from his own signature one man music show, Lam has been organizing concerts for such music acts like Hanjin, FAMA, at17, my little airport with his label LYFE. From 2012 Lam started another production house 'Seeing Creative', organizing a series of innovative shows. 'Singing Hands', which Lam originally curated for the Hong Kong Arts Festival programme featuring percussion artist Arai Soichiro proved to be a big success, SC since has launched 'The Future Sounds of Hong Kong' Music Festival, featuring 5 of the best Hong Kong based bands: Chokchukmo, Supper Moment, Rednoon, Modern Children and ToNick, each has their own headline shows in the summer of 2012.
From 2015, Lam founded a crowd funding website for musician www.musicbee.cc with Hong Kong fellow musicians Vicky Fung and Victor Tse, with Hong Kong based multi-media force Why Interactive. The first project launched on MusicBee was Crossroads, Lam's 15th album, and proved to be a big success in terms of media response and funding.
Chet Lam has been exhibited at HAJI Gallery - “Homework” Debut Photo-exhibition with Chet Lam Yat-Fung in April, 2012.
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Michael lee
Michael Lee a.k.a. michaelmichaelmichael is a cross-media artist. Michael is the co-founder of #HAJIGALLERISTS, who co-curated more than 50 art exhibited worldwide, and independent media establishment - PRESS MINI. In Hong Kong, Michael worked in mainstream media include Commerical Radio, TVB and PCCW. Michael showed his works in Japan, United Kingdom, United States, Italy, France, Macau, Taiwan, China, Canada, and Hong Kong.

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Mini Choi :
Mini C is a multi-media artist, lyricist, author, performer, producer, painter, photographer, videographer, publisher, columnist, radio and television anchor, curator, and gallerist, whose creative practices are rich in aural, visual and cultural gradations. Her iconic works are widely presented in exhibitions, galleries, concerts, mainstream and independent media platforms. Not only has she participated in many art exhibitions, but she has also curated more than 50 art exhibitions worldwide under the name of #HAJIGALLERISTS.
Besides heavily involved in the fine art area, Mini Choi has created and published more than 400 lyrics, five compelling books and novels, directed and produced music videos, produced and published magazines, apparels, and TV shows. Graduated from Simon Fraser University and studied fine arts at Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Mini continues to explore the relationship between art and pop cultures.

Exhibitions:
2015 June - “Treeeeeeeeeeee” - Foster Eastman Gallery in Vancouver
2015 May - “INSOMNIA” - Videotage in Hong Kong
2015 April - “Face or Faces” - Foster Eastman Gallery in Vancouver
2015 March - “GRACE” - Foster Eastman Gallery in Vancouver
2015 January - "Desolation", Foster Eastman Gallery in Vancouver
2014 December - “deTour 2014”, PMQ in Hong Kong
2014 October - “ROSE”, Foster Eastman Gallery in Vancouver
2013 February - “Testament”, HAJI Gallery in Hong Kong
2012 October - “"10P - Illustration & Installation Exhibition", HAJI Gallery in Hong Kong



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