28in x 35in oil on canvas 2013
28in x 35in oil on canvas 2013
Shu Yi Liu
Shu Yi Liu, also known as Yi Liu, has a career of teaching painting, Chinese calligraphy and the Chinese language in the U.S. His mentors include Hai Su Liu, Zhu Kong Yang, Qi Shu Yu, Pang Jing Lu and Li Cong Jia. Mr. Liu studied a variety of artistic technique from them, and his works are collected in Japan, Singapore, Australia, Germany and the United States.
Mr. Liu also received a diploma from the Chung Hwa Correspondance School in Chinese Painting and Calligraphy. Mr Liu’s works, such as “Blomming Flowers in the Warm Spring” and “The United Land of Mountains and Rivers,” are featured in numerous art exhibitions. Besides painting, his artistic interests also include the Chinese craft of seal cutting. Mr. Liu is the author of “A Practical Drawing and Painting Course,” which focuses on the techniques and style of achieving continuity and skill for sketching, water color and Chinese watercolor paintings.
Sophia Sattar
Sophia Sattar was born in Karachi, Pakistan. She graduated in 1995 from Indus Valley School of Art and Architecture, receiving her BFA in painting and a minor in printmaking. And her MFA from Academy of Art University, SAn Francisco.
Sophia has been featured in the Herald and Extra magazine in Pakistan and in the American Collectors Art Magazine and Islamic Art magazine in the May Issue 2013. She had her first solo exhibition at 79 New Montgomery at the Atelier Gallery in San Francisco in May 2013.
She is the force behind the Annual Muslim Artists Night, at the local Islamic center, in San Ramon. She is an ambassador of Muslimah: Art and Voices at the International Museum of Women, San Francisco. Through which she continues to bring goodwill between her culture and the West.
Ronald Y. Nakazone
Ronald Y. Nakasone is heir to the age-old East Asian literati tradition that encourages self cultivation, self transformation, and self realization through scholarship, community involvement, and art. He has exhibited in Kyoto, Tokyo, Paris, Seoul, Xian, Chiang Mai, and cities throughout the U.S.A. His works are in the permanent collections of the Mobile Museum of Art, National Museum of Fine Arts, Havana, the Graduate Theological Union (GTU), Chiang Mai University; and in private collections in Japan, Okinawa, Thailand, Spain, and the U.S.
A member of the Core Doctoral Faculty at the Graduate Theological Union (GTU) and a faculty at the Stanford University Geriatric Education Center, Professor Nakasone has published more than 100 academic books and articles on Buddhist doctrine, ethics, and aesthetics, Aging and Okinawan Studies. He received the Sarlo Excellence in Teaching Award from the GTU in 2011.
Tashi Mannox
Tashi Mannox’s name embodies both the Eastern and Western influences in his 35-year journey as a painter and calligrapher. Born with the British family name Mannox, he was given the name Tashi shortly after gaining a BA in Fine Art, when at 22 he became a Buddhist monk of the Tibetan Kagyu order. For the next seventeen years, he apprenticed under the late Sherab Palden Beru, a master Tibetan artist. Part of Tashi’s training was in the art of temple decoration, a traditional hub for the Tibetan arts and their symbolism.
During his years in the monastery, Tashi worked as a scribe, copying ancient Tibetan manuscripts. This training gave him a firm foundation in Tibetan calligraphy. Since laying down his monk’s robes in 2000, Tashi has produced a collection of works that reveal sacred themes through the images of Tibetan Buddhist iconography. His work has been exhibited in London, Moscow, New York, Los Angeles, Sharjah (UAE) and Tallinn, Estonia.
The root syllable ‘a’ in the classical Uchen script, illuminates white and resplendently pure among aura like swirls spinning from the blackness of limitless space. 'a' represents the ultimate true nature of mind, which is equalled in all beings, who are countless as all the stars of the universe. Giclée printed on 310 g/m² rough Aquarelle museum conservation paper, 67cm x 50cm.
The splendor of the universe, our world, from where we are born and return, can be experienced by us from a sacred viewpoint of our innate purity that is naturally within us. This interrelationship between heaven and earth evokes the creativity of man, expressed in words and the beauty of calligraphy. The uppermost line of Tibetan cursive script that soars high in the sky that translates as “universal, common ground of primordial purity”. Below, as if dancing among the swirling energy of the ear
A spiritual enlightened state implies an ultimate or absolute that is pure and untainted. If there is ‘absolute’ then there must be ‘relative’ which is the mundane unawake state as we know it. These two parallels of existence can be called the two truths of absolute and relative. Psychologically in the realm of heaven and earth, the ‘absolute’ is symbolically placed above and the ‘relative’ is placed below. Just as the calligraphy, the words ‘absolute truth’ is above and ‘relative truth’ below.
The root syllable ‘a’ in the classical Uchen script, illuminates white and resplendently pure among aura like swirls spinning from the blackness of limitless space. 'a' represents the ultimate true nature of mind, which is equalled in all beings, who are countless as all the stars of the universe. Giclée printed on 310 g/m² rough Aquarelle museum conservation paper, 67cm x 50cm.
Salma Zahedi
Salma Zahedi is a Master’s graduate in Disaster and Emergency Management from York University. Growing up in Tehran, Tokyo, and Toronto she had the opportunity to travel to different parts of the world, and be influenced by their cultures and various art forms.
In effect, she developed an enthusiasm for art from an early age. She began her exploration of Persian calligraphy in her early twenties. Drawing inspiration from rich Persian calligraphy art, she embarked on expressing herself in a union of Persian calligraphy and painting. Her Eshgh (Love) series were inspired by her own discovery of love; which depict different features of love that one experiences throughout life.
Dimensions of artwork in inches: 2’ x 2’ Date of Creation: June 2010 Media: Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions of artwork in inches: 20” x 16” Date of Creation: November 2013 Media: Acrylic on canvas
Dimensions of artwork in inches: 2’ x 2’ Date of Creation: June 2010 Media: Acrylic on canvas
Uehira Baikei
Uehira Baikei, master calligrapher from Japan, is president of the Sei-Sho Calligraphy Association, which currently instructs over 1,500 students throughout Japan.He is not only an accomplished studio artist but a live calligraphy performer and promoter of traditional Japanese culture.
Uehira also enjoys creating innovative modern works by incorporating new materials, forms, and brush styles while still adhering to classical principles.With more than 30 years of calligraphy instruction to his credit, he shows no signs of slowing down and plans to travel the world teaching for many years to come.
This is the online gallery of our Calligraphies in Conversation exhibition. It includes all the accepted artists, their biographies, their artworks, and the description of thier artworks. You can review the artists based on alphabetical order of their first name. This gallery includes incredible array of calligraphic artworks from different masters and illustrates the differences and similarities of these calligraphy traditions; as well as their deep connections.