"LotusCloudTreeMist"
May 25 - June 8, 2006
Emily
SyCip Cheng is an artist of boundless vision, her paintings
have the expanse of the cosmos and the fluidity of the sea.
Her work is eclectic and multilayered replete with a variety
of images ranging from the decorative to the mystical
inspired by centuries of art from across the world. She
starts by stripping images of their symbolic content and
retaining just the form. Then, she imaginatively
reincarnates them in such a way that they preserve their
individuality, yet weave into each other. The outcome is
highly refined compositions of reinvented images that have
an independent, complete identity and are able to
communicate in a totally fresh manner. In that sense, she is
a true postmodernist. …………………………….Priya Malhotra,
“Wholeness in a Fragmented World”, Asian
art News July/August 2004
“…The paintings’
translucent colors and delicate linear fragments seem to
levitate before the viewer’s eyes, as if bits of Chinese
ceramics or embroidery were drifting through layers of
folded, colored air”
…. Roberta Smith, New
York Times
Some of her
solo exhibitions
include the Bronx Museum, Cinncinati Center of Contemporary
Art, Hanart Gallery in Hong Kong and Metropolitan Museum in
Manila. Group shows include the Hammond Museum,
Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art and the Museum of
Contemporary Art, USF, Tampa, Florida.
Cheng is the recipient of a
National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship, New York
Foundation for the Arts Fellowship, and a Yaddo Fellowship.
For exhibition
inquiries, please contact the gallery through Chona Galvez /
Beth Manuel at 831-9990, telefax
833-9815 or email duemila@mydestiny.net
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