Drawings, Paintings, and Photos * Updated 9/09

New Gallery – Sep 2009

Tony Wu came to Nashville, set up professional lighting, and took beautiful photos of a big chunk of Jim’s work.  Brent is posting those photos in an online gallery.  Here is the link:

http://picasaweb.google.com/bthsieh/JimHsiehGallery?authkey=Gv1sRgCMDH3pPg1-iHxwE&feat=email#

Here is a new gallery of pictures from Brent Hsieh:

Pictures of Dad

Below is a link to some of Jim’s art and photos from family and friends.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/friendsofjimhsieh/sets/

Here is a gallery of pictures from some of Jim’s high school friends:

http://picasaweb.google.com/mizcasper/ForTheLoveOfJimmyHsieh?authkey=W9Hr2UCGiBI

Jim’s longtime friend and classmate Tony Wu took wonderful pictures when he came to Nashville to attend the memorial. Here is a link to Tony’s pictures:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/friendsofjimhsieh/collections/72157603983370901/
And here is what Tony had to say about taking them:

When Margaret, our ISB (International School of Bangkok), high school classmate, called to tell me the sad news of Jimmy’s death, I knew immediately that I had to attend his memorial service. My wife, Sheila, and I had moved to Sylva, in Western North Carolina, in May of 2005 and had talked with Jimmy about visiting each other. We soon got jobs and didn’t have the vacation time saved up, so we invited Jimmy to visit with us, but he always said, “The road goes both ways, you know.” Little did I know how he hated to travel. Time got away from us and now, almost three years later, we still hadn’t made the trip until Jimmy’s untimely death. Sheila had committed to teach a refresher class at work for 10 straight days, so she regretfully couldn’t attend.

Besides making the six hour trip to Nashville to pay my respects to Jim and his family, I wanted to meet his friends, see his 10 acre homestead, log cabin and studio that he had told me about, and of course, his works of art. By then I had seen his blog and the pictures on flicker.com, all being posted by Bud. As a professional photographer from a past life, I knew that I could contribute to his living memory by making a photo log of our visit to his home, studio, memorial service, reception and the party afterwards at Tom John’s and Brenda Butka’s lovely home. Moreover, all of his ISB high school classmates wanted to see copies of whatever photographs I could share with them.

When I arrived to stay with Steve & Jill for the memorial, Jill showed me a beautiful color pencil piece that Jim had given her and a collection of small bottles of seasoning sauces that Jim had illustrated. As I discovered more of the different aspects of Jim’s work, I knew I had to record and help display as much of his artistic works as possible.

However, when his family accompanied Rudy (another one of Jim’s ISB high school classmates) and me to Jim’s beautiful log cabin and studio, we had very little time, as there was so much to see and photograph. Much of his art was under glass, and given the time constraints, difficult to photograph without reflection and glare. By carefully shooting at an angle, I was able to avoid most of the reflection and glare but had to give up on proper perspective on those pieces. Toward the end of the visit, Rudy and I found Jim’s portfolio in his studio and as Rudy flipped pages, I would photograph as fast as I could, sometimes not even taking his sample illustrations out of the plastic sleeves of his portfolio.

It is my hope to return and devote as much time as needed to properly capture as much of Jim’s art work as can be gathered in one place and time. Jim and his body of work deserve the very best, so that his memory can live on with us.

Tony (Chen-Tze) Wu
Sylva, North Carolina