Jerone Hsu, who graduated from Columbia College in 2007, has two small silver rings in his left upper ear, an easy, genuine laugh, and a penchant for meandering sentences. The walls of his one-bedroom apartment on 103rd Street and Riverside Drive—an apartment owned by his parents, who, after abruptly deciding to move to Taiwan, left the place to him—are decked with his own unframed, dreamlike paintings. Hsu could easily be another cool kid living the good life on his parents’ dime.
