董小蕙
DONG Shaw-hwei b. 1962
關於
董小蕙，1962年出生於台北，1984年畢業於台灣師範大學美術系，1992年於國立台灣師範大學美術研究所理論組取得碩士。在台北市松山高中美術班專任教職。1994-2007年，多次旅居德國寫生創作，並發表新作個展與出版畫集。曾任台北市立教育大學視覺藝術系、研究所兼任助理教授。
早期研究印象派畫風，消化西畫色彩與光影變化之亮麗表現。攻讀碩士學位時致力於老莊哲學的研究，寫成《莊子思想之美學意義》一書。自此在創作上逐漸提煉與深化繪畫風格。1990年代後期創作風格開始轉變，發展出較具主觀心靈意象的「黑桌靜物」系列，以生動的花卉、簡單的器皿、木質的桌椅來組構畫面，形成靜謐的空間氛圍。其後，畫家並以自身居所為題材，發展出「老院子」系列。重要個展包括2013年美國華府「雙橡園」邀請個展，2013年亞洲藝術中心「乘物．遊心」，近期展覽為2021年「越界」～在砌時變局中縱橫—亞洲藝術中心台北旗艦空間開幕展，台灣2017年台北國立歷史博物館《老院子．韶光．年華》個展。
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Born in 1962 in Taipei, Dong Shaw-hwei received her B.A. and M.F.A. from the Department of Fine Arts at National Taiwan Normal University, and worked as an art teacher in Taipei Municipal Song-Shan Senior High School. Dong traveled to Europe several times for solo exhibitions and published several catalogs during 1994-2007. She had also worked as Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Taipei Department of Visual Arts.
Early in her career, she studied the style of impressionism, and learned how to express the shadows and color from western paintings. She devoted herself to the analysis of Zhuangzi’s philosophical thoughts and aesthetics as a graduate student and published her thesis under the title of The Philosophy of Zhuangzi and Its Aesthetic Significance. Dong gradually started refining and adding depth to her painting style, and begun a process of self-realization through uniting her life and art. Since the late 1990s, she created her unique style with the “Still Life of Black Table Series”, as well as the “Courtyard in Black and White Series”. Dong restructured the common space in daily life on her paintings with various plants, wooden tables and chairs. Notable solo exhibitions include the invitation by Twin Oaks of National Register of Historic Places in Washington, D.C., and Unfettered Heart – 2013 Dong Shaw-hwei New Works Solo Exhibition at Asia Art Center Taipei in 2013. Her most recent exhibitions being Transgression throughout the Volatile World Inaugural Exhibition of Asia Art Center Taipei New Flagship Space in 2021, and In Courtyard, Recollecting Precious Moments of Life: Dong Shaw-hwei 2017 Solo Exhibition at National Museum of History, Taiwan in 2017.