Marlene Tseng Yu "Forces of Nature"
The Chelsea Art Museum
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Marlene Tseng Yu has had a long and illustrious career exhibiting in museums across the world. This exhibition features large scale paintings which evoke many facets of the natural work and highlight the green movement in art.
Born in Taiwan in 1937, the artist received her BFA and MFA degrees in fine arts from National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, and the University of Colorado, Boulder. The artist has shown extensively since the 1960s throughout Asia, Europe, and the United States. The National Gallery in Prague, Czech Republic, and the National Art Museum of China, Beijing, are among the venues of her most recent exhibitions. A new solo exhibition will open concurrently in October at Today Art Museum, Beijing. The artist's work has been widely reviewed in nine languages in more than 140 publications, including Artforum, Art in America, and Art News, by leading art critics Lawrence Campbell, Ronny Cohen, Jonathan Goodman, Gerrit Henry, April Kingsley, Donald Kuspit, Robert Morgan, Cynthia Nadelman, Carter Ratcliff, Lily Wei, and Jeffrey Wright. From 1969 to 2007, the artist lived and worked in Soho, New York, and in 2008 opened a studio in Long Island City, New York. Since 1995, the artist has curated Forces of Nature group exhibitions and poetry readings in praise of rain forests highlighting the green movement in art.
[Image: Marlene Tseng Yu "Emerald Forest" Rainforest Series (2000) Acrylic on canvas 10 x 20 ft.]
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from October 03, 2009 to November 14, 2009