廖堉安
Liao YuAn b. 1979
關於
廖堉安，1979年出生於台北市。作品以繪畫創作為主，擅長以自身形象與心理狀態為創作題材，對都會人群的生活型態和人際互動關係的進行一系列的描摹。在2003年時以「鳥人自畫像」獲得台北美術獎首獎，自此鳥人形象成為廖堉安的註冊商標。經歷各地美術館、藝博會、畫廊等空間展出，作品也得到美術館、藝術基金會、私人藏家典藏。
他喜愛以各種動物的形象，加上各種豐富花紋和色彩組合來諷喻現代人的生活與現實社會的人際關係。延續多年創作，發展出各種不同系列的作品，從可愛的動物形象，轉成各種灰暗、糾結的變形人體，帶有充滿黑眼圈有如鬼魅般的怪物，也有長滿仙人掌刺的奇特人體，借這些異狀的形態描摹現代人在智慧時代中的各種失能與生活轉化。
看漫畫、看書、玩電動、吃甜食、投扭蛋機、養寵物是廖堉安的創作泉源，品味各種生活中細膩的經驗與壓抑的情緒，再以之組合出各式設計過的色彩背置、人物布局與場景，有如一齣齣一秒鐘的戲劇，瞬間轉出瞬間轉入，輕輕的戳動觀眾的生活記憶。
Liao Yuan born in Taipei in 1979 and won the "Taipei Arts Award" in 2003, Liao Yu-An is a promising young artist in contemporary art. The making of his art is a deeply personal one, and the theme of alienation and isolation is beautifully described in his artworks. Liao has set about making art that begans as a voyage of self-exploration and self-discovery and is now a comment on the society in which he lives. He made for himself a theater of possibilities that has embraced deeply personal moments of his life and his insecurities, as well as some astute observation on the society in which he finds himself as a young artist. The initial impression of Liao's art is that it is humorous and that it is clearly informed by animation art, cartoons, and caricature, as well as a juxtaposition of geometries: the precision of colored horizontal and vertical lines for background and a random rolling line for figuration. It is a story of struggle within our minds and our everyday realities and in our relationships that will continue to repeat itself in an endless theater of possibilities.