Paintings and Works on Vellum
September 21 - October 20, 2001
Danese is pleased to announce an exhibition of recent
paintings and works on vellum by Theresa Chong opening Friday, September
21 and continuing through Saturday, October 20.
In her new paintings, Chong extends the formal and personal concerns of her earlier works. References to music (Chong is an accomplished cellist), to meter, rhythm and fugal variation, to opera, architecture, calligraphy and literature are transformed into an abstract visual language expressing a full range of human experience. Chongís familiar expressive line, at once lyrical, delicate and sinuous, is intertwined within and juxtaposed upon a series of grids, which recall architectural plans, intricate electrical diagrams, and map-like schematic overlays.
This skein of computer manipulated, curvilinear and tectonic imagery is drawn upon large-scale intensely colored canvases and smaller works on vellum. The added dimensions of new technology, color and scale represent a provocative and ambitious shift for this artist.
Theresa Chong was born in Korea in 1965 and immigrated with her family in 1974 to Fairbanks, Alaska. She attended Oberlin Conservatory, Ohio and Bostonís University School of Fine Arts. She received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York, and currently lives and works in New York.
New Works on Paper, September 10 - October 11, 2003
In her new paintings, Chong extends the formal and personal concerns of her earlier works. References to music (Chong is an accomplished cellist), to meter, rhythm and fugal variation, to opera, architecture, calligraphy and literature are transformed into an abstract visual language expressing a full range of human experience. Chongís familiar expressive line, at once lyrical, delicate and sinuous, is intertwined within and juxtaposed upon a series of grids, which recall architectural plans, intricate electrical diagrams, and map-like schematic overlays.
This skein of computer manipulated, curvilinear and tectonic imagery is drawn upon large-scale intensely colored canvases and smaller works on vellum. The added dimensions of new technology, color and scale represent a provocative and ambitious shift for this artist.
Theresa Chong was born in Korea in 1965 and immigrated with her family in 1974 to Fairbanks, Alaska. She attended Oberlin Conservatory, Ohio and Bostonís University School of Fine Arts. She received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York, and currently lives and works in New York.
New Works on Paper, September 10 - October 11, 2003
