Birds Migrate over Sea, front painting by Yeachin Tsai
Review of “Visual Poetry”
by RS Benedict
Independent Review Crew
Visual Poetry: New Vistas
Arts Center of the Capital Region
265 River St
Troy, N.Y.
Through Dec. 20, 2023
Yeachin Tsai’s thick brush strokes start with the gestures of Chinese calligraphy but loosen into poetic abstraction. Her vivid piece “Birds Migrate over Sea” evokes the movement of birds over white caps without strictly representing them. Instead, black and white acrylics whirl like wings or waves before tones of blazing copper. In the playful “Summer Orange,” fruit wedges take flight like a flock of gulls.
Tsai’s work appears in the Visual Poetry: New Vistas exhibition at the Arts Center of the Capital Region in Troy. The exhibition is two shows melded together, explained co-curator Joseph Mastroianni: Both interpret the theme of visual poetry to varying degrees of abstraction. As in poetry, there’s room for traditional meter and rhyme, but there’s room for experimental free verse, too.
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