Liaung-Chung Yen
About
Liaung-Chung Yen was born and raised in Taiwan and his jewelry and artistic aesthetic is influenced by both Chinese culture and art. By using metaphor in his design, he thinks of his jewelry as small expressions of art, desire, wit or sensuality. He also sees it as small sculptures, documenting the time and the emotion. The work is not to mean to isolate specific meanings, rather suggest a moment of thought where stillness, beauty and illumination can peacefully coexist.
Yen received his Master of Fine Art at Savannah College of Art and Design. Prior to this he studied at the National Taiwan Academy of Art and the Taiwan Provincial Handicraft Research Institute. He received the fellowship from New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) in 2005, Finalist in NICHE Awards in 2009 and 2007, the 2nd place in MJSA Vision award in Natural Color Diamond Category in 2007. He features in the Metalsmith magazine Exhibition in Print 2007, 500 series by lark books, Art Jewelry Today 2, Adorn: New Jewelry. He has participated in a number of exhibitions, including The International Expositions of Sculpture Objects and Functional Art (SOFA), Metal Inclinations 2, “Touching warms the Art” in Museum of Contemporary Craft in Portland, Oregon, Cheongju International Craft Biennale in Korea, “Recycle Design Prize” in Germany and “Lagd i verden(Made in the world)” for the National Museum of Art, Design and Architecture in Norway.