Emily Cheng
| Emily Cheng perceives the lotus in its abstracted form, as a symbol refined through creative processes. Playing with variations of lotus imagery from the disparate Buddhist and Chinese traditions, the artist also incorporates details from Renaissance art and other sources into studied bloomings of chemical color as aerosol as they are oxidized. Her large-scale oil canvases measure time in intricate patterns and symphonic overlays of catastrophe, aftermath, and regeneration. Guided by the lotus, they unfurl a new mandala: the mind pushing into a realm of contemplative romp. Through reiterations of concentric lines, ruminations upon an idealized center and through referentiality of imagery, the exuberant expression of an accumulated personal literacy finds form. |
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| Emily Cheng studied at the New York Studio School, New York, before earning a B.F.A. in Painting in 1975 from the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island. Exhibiting since 1983, she has had recent solo-shows at Winston Wachter Mayer, New York, and Schmidt/Dean Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, both in 2002. Other solo-shows include: Byron Cohen Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri; The Metropolitan Museum of Manila, Philippines; Hanart T.Z. Gallery, Hong Kong; and The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio. Emily is also a fellow of the National Endowment for the Arts (1982-1983) and the New York Foundation for the Arts (1996). | |
| Exhibition : | Jewel in the Heart (with Lois Conner) |
| Plum Blossoms Gallery New York | |
| May 20 - July 3, 2004 | |
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