Yuh-Shioh Wong Exhibition

Thomas Erben Gallery

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Yuh-Shioh Wong presents the first solo exhibition at this gallery of Los Angeles-based artist Yuh-Shioh Wong (b. 1977, Taipei, Taiwan). Her mostly small format paintings – acrylic and aqua oil on raw canvas – materially concentrate experiences while perceptually expanding into physical as well as emotive space. These works translate the duration of nature, rather than depict it.

Wong’s paintings offer multiple, cumulative viewpoints – gazing into reflections in water, looking over hills at clouds, or walking through woods – which are absorbed into a continuum of movement of shapes, colors and forms. Her variety of marks – such as broad, watery washes; frequently calligraphic lines; and small, short dashes or dots – fuse into organic, idiosyncratic compositions, which are highly sensitive to the edges of the canvas. A primarily soft and bright palette contributes to an ephemeral atmosphere of colliding forces and fluidity.

In Tree Shadows, for example, we see the curvature of tree limbs becoming two areas of light. An indigo shade emerges as a central figure, displaced by an opaque streak of light blue coming from the background and reappearing towards the lower edge. What one expects to be solid is transparent, while light and shadow become tangible characters in the scene. In some respect, the abstract forms in this painting hint at Wong’s animistic relationship to nature.

The apparent simplicity and technique of her delicately complex, slowly made compositions disclose a meditative, beautiful wilderness.

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Schedule

from February 16, 2012 to March 24, 2012

Opening Reception on 2012-02-16 from 18:00 to 20:30

Artist(s)

Yuh-Shioh Wong

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