Gallery Xue

JMEBV5XDN6TU   NEW YORK CITY, March 15 – This month at Gallery Xue / NYC we feature three silent meditations on the ephemerality of life, hope, dreams, relationships. Three longful yearnings for some sort of transcendent, sublime peace. Spanning 49 years of sculpture and installation we are pleased to exhibit Barnett Newman’s 1963 masterpiece Broken [...]

Gallery Xue / London and Compton’s Live are hosting Vaneeesa Blaylock’s new performance artwork VB29 – Natatorium this Saturday, 17 December from 6-8pm GMT. In her many virtual world performance works http://vaneeesa.com/portfolio/ Blaylock has explored the human body, body image, and identity in the 21st century. Inspired by this summer’s coming London Olympic Games, Blaylock [...]

FRANSCHHOEK, South Africa, November 28 – Celeste Coetzee’s work Bridal Ontklee (Bridal Strip) has been removed from The Gallery at Grande Provence in Franschhoek, by curator Carina Bekker. Coetzee’s performance / installation at The Gallery at Grand Provence was part of the Unisa (University of South Africa) Final Year Student Exhibition there. HUGUENOT MONUMENT, Franschhoek, [...]

I truly live in two worlds. This ‘two world’ concept once posed too much ambiguity for me, as I felt torn as to whom I was. In maturity I have come to find it the source of my power, as I can easily move between these two places and not feel that I have to [...]

On Saturday, 9 April 2011, I sat down with Esra’a Al Shafei, founder of MideastYouth.com, from 9:30 – 11:00pm GMT, for a conversation on her life and work. XUE FAITH This is Xue Faith at the lighthouse at An Li in Second Life, here with MideastYouth.com founder Esra’a Al Shafei. Thanks for joining us for [...]

I’ve been following the career of Cape Town artist Belinda Blignaut since I discovered her Stealing the Words installation at Young Blackman Gallery in the summer of last year. I’ll write a future post on some of her other inspired works, but today I’d like to focus on Stealing the Words. Stealing the Words Belinda [...]