My name is Aaron Tang but most of my friends call me "Tango". It comes from gym class in High School. You know when you have to put your first initial in front of your last name, well, I had "Tang,A" written on the back of my shirt instead, which eventually left people saying TANGO. Maybe it derived from people cheering for me while running a drill, "Go Tang, Go Tang, Go Tan-go, Tango..."
I am an industrial design graduate from Rhode Island School of Design, with a passion to push the boundaries of technology and design. I am a motivated and inquisitive individual ready to learn something new everyday. I love new adventures and crave to learn anything new. Sports, news, stocks, movies, shopping, technology, traveling...you name it and I'll improvise from there. I played the violin for 14 years before entering college, lead and participated in many dynamic and inspiring orchestras, played tennis, am a crazy fan of Ultimate Frisbee, fanatic of technology, had a dream about a unicycle... so I bought one, and above all else, love to eat and try a variety of foods (Food channels fault).
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http://www.aarontang.net
Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Featured Artist: AAron Tang
Goodness!
Time really got away from me this week. I worked my butt off last week for the thanksgiving holiday, including opening on Black Fiday! So here's a happy little tribute to my beloved corn painting... a Corn Painting Abstract! :)
I hope you enjoy!
Monday, November 26, 2007
Monday again...
Jeez, so it's monday again...already.My fellow Quarterlife artists must be feeling it too, but I hope to see their latest art sometime this week.I hope everyone checked out Teresa Petersen's website!Sorry I couldn't post any pictures on our page. I just didn't want to get into legal trouble and all.Hope you enjoy the latest autumnal floral.Oh and I want to thank Rachel's Dad and Grandma for all of their thoughtful feedback and encouragement.They've been there since the very very start and we all love it here at the website.
PS Don't forget to share the word about Christmas shopping on the website.
PPS Martha Stewart on Thursday the 29th, they're featuring Pewabic Pottery!Try and tune in, I might be on tv:)
Sunday, November 25, 2007
Saturday, November 24, 2007
Post-Thanksgiving
I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving, it's one of my favorite holidays....it's been a busy week of prepping, celebrating, family and friends in town, and a little early birthday celebrating (25 on Tuesday!) I am posting a little late this week. Check back for new art!
Monday, November 19, 2007
Featured Artist: Teresa Petersen
Teresa Petersen is an artist I became of aware of out a magazine ad.She creates these amusing collages out of found retro 50's and 60's images, and she makes 3-D assemblage art.She attended MSU and Wayne State. Her work deals quite a bit the overlapping themes of history, women, culture, mythology,and nature.
Due to copywrite our site can't post her images but please visit http://www.teresapetersen.com/ to enjoy her whimsical and fantastic work!
What's new
I'm going to work a bit longer on florals I've decided. It's a theme I keep coming back to. They're popular among art viewers as well.I really liked the deep rich colors of autumn and evening vegetation in this arrangement.
I don't like it!
Well, I waited 'till the last minute and then tried to do an ENORMOUS painting. I would say it's 6 times as big as what I have been doing. It's a little too trite, and therefore needs to be well done to be good. But 2 hours is not long enough to make it be well done.
We will see, I may rework it, I may not. All depends on what it's new owner thinks.
Wish me luck!
Friday, November 16, 2007
Monday, November 12, 2007
Holiday Season
I guess that I don't have much to write about this week. Thankfully, my job at Pewabic is going really well so I don't have any drama there. I guess I'm just trying to make art,and get to work on time ,and clean my house.The good things of life.So please spread the work about the website and keep checking in with us.Hope everyone is having a great holiday season.
Sunday, November 11, 2007
Finally Home!
Well, I'm finally home from opening the new store in Indy. I'm pretty much exhausted and though I've published two drawings, I can honestly say that is almost more than I was up to. These two weeks we were supposed to do drawings so we could work on something bigger in the background, but that didn't really pull through for me.
I apologize for those of you that haven't been able to find the new work on the site. I'm not sure why it was all getting buried under old post dates, but I think I got everything shuffled back around.
Anyway, it's a quarter to Midnight and I have to work at 7am tomorrow, so time is running out. Hopefully I can pull something together for next post so you'll start your week off on a high note!
Thanks!
Thursday, November 8, 2007
Brain
My bunny image isn't quite right because I had to scan it in as 2 separate images because it was too long. I think I will just take a photo of it so the seam and colors don't look mismatched. I am starting to get some more ideas and inspiration back this week. I think it helps to keep your brain busy, sometimes watching tv and the daily routine are slowly killing my brain cells. They haven't exercised much since graduating. I hate that it's easier to do nothing than set up challenges for myself, I guess that's how the driven get to where they are. Focus, determination, and fearlessness.
Monday, November 5, 2007
Christmas Season
So it the Christmas season if you haven't noticed the retailers jamming it down your throat.Since we're in the retail business of sorts be sure to revisit our old posts to see what items haven't sold yet....Nothing like a unique gift of handmade art!Pass the word on to friends and family.Especially those that are trying to buy for a difficult person.
We're working on a way to display all of our work on one convenient page to make it easier to browse through and we are also working on paypal, so hang in there with us!!!!!!
I whipped together a little drawing this week of a hand blown retro Christmas tree that I own. I love this tree, it's crazy and pinkish red.Now that's a christmas tree.
Sunday, November 4, 2007
Hotel Room Artwork
For some reason working a normal week of all 8-5 days is much more exhausting when you come home to a hotel room. I'm sure it's because sleeping in a strange bed and eating out don't help a person feel very put together... But it seems reasonable to think that if you're in a hotel room with nothing to do you would get MORE done than you normally do at home when you can putz around with all your belongings.
Anyway, I appologize for the quality of the image. Working from a hotel room requires using my cell phone as a camera for the image. Not the best quality ever. HaHa. I can't wait to get home, and get started on something a little more "intense" than a pencil drawing!
Friday, November 2, 2007
My new post day is Friday...
I went to see a documentary film at the Detroit Film Theater tonight called "My Kid Could Do That." It was about the rise and fall of a 4-year old girl's fame in the art world after being hyped up in the media as a child prodigy painter. I really urge people to try and see it if they can, regardless if they are art followers or not because it was finally something that made you use your brain. There were so many questions that were raised and ideas that got people talking afterwards about what modern art really is, finding truth, marketing and money, the huge role that media plays in what gets importance, and so much more. It really gave me this energy to think beyond what is shown. This little innocent four-year old girl is having her childhood jerked around and portrayed as genius and then scandal and trying to get back on top again by her parents (mainly her father) whose motives are shady. Unsure if the work produced is really all hers or secretly "helped" by her dad, it was unsettling even at the end because no real conclusion was made. If it wasn't hers wouldn't it be a huge scandal and if it was authentic what does that mean to the whole idea of modern art if a toddler's scribbles can be worth millions if marketed the right way to the right rich people.
Anyway, please check it out if you can MARLA
My banana drawing this week feels silly in comparison to the things that I'm thinking about now, but it's also something to put up while I am (still) working on my tulips and another portrait painting. Coming soon....
