New Works on Paper
September 10 - October 11, 2003
Danese is pleased to announce an exhibition of new works
on paper by Theresa Chong opening Wednesday, September 10 and continuing
through Saturday, October 11.
The current exhibition includes a group of intricate gouache and pencil drawings on handmade Japanese rice paper – either black imagery on an off-white ground, or white on a deep blue-black – which integrate and extend the formal and conceptual issues examined in her previous work. The drawings consist of delicate, meandering lines punctuated by minute painted elements which convey a sense of rhythm, meter and lyric beauty. While open to multiple associations and varied interpretation – celestial maps, cascading particles on a field, even musical notation – the new work remains decidedly and purely abstract.
A “primary concern of the work…is with the nature of the gesture as part of our immediate legacy of abstraction.”¹ Chong has been inspired by abstract expressionism, its energy and spontaneity, as in the work of de Kooning and Pollock, and by pop art, particularly the clarity of line in the work of Roy Lichtenstein. By also incorporating computer-generated imagery, a tension is achieved between the “skill and fluency of the artist’s hand and the impartial, dispassionately rational intelligence of the machine.”²
Theresa Chong was born in Korea in 1965 and immigrated with her family to Fairbanks, Alaska in 1974. She attended Oberlin Conservatory, Ohio and Boston’s University School of Fine Arts. She received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York. Her work is included in the collections of the Whitney Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Yale University Art Gallery and the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, among others. Chong recently completed a faculty residency at the Anderson Ranch in Colorado and has just been awarded a grant from NYFA (New York Foundation for the Arts). She currently lives and works in New York.
¹Goodman, Jonathan. “Theresa Chong,” Art Asia Pacific, Issue 34, p. 87.
²Ibid.
Paintings and Works on Vellum, September 21 - October 20, 2001
The current exhibition includes a group of intricate gouache and pencil drawings on handmade Japanese rice paper – either black imagery on an off-white ground, or white on a deep blue-black – which integrate and extend the formal and conceptual issues examined in her previous work. The drawings consist of delicate, meandering lines punctuated by minute painted elements which convey a sense of rhythm, meter and lyric beauty. While open to multiple associations and varied interpretation – celestial maps, cascading particles on a field, even musical notation – the new work remains decidedly and purely abstract.
A “primary concern of the work…is with the nature of the gesture as part of our immediate legacy of abstraction.”¹ Chong has been inspired by abstract expressionism, its energy and spontaneity, as in the work of de Kooning and Pollock, and by pop art, particularly the clarity of line in the work of Roy Lichtenstein. By also incorporating computer-generated imagery, a tension is achieved between the “skill and fluency of the artist’s hand and the impartial, dispassionately rational intelligence of the machine.”²
Theresa Chong was born in Korea in 1965 and immigrated with her family to Fairbanks, Alaska in 1974. She attended Oberlin Conservatory, Ohio and Boston’s University School of Fine Arts. She received her MFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York. Her work is included in the collections of the Whitney Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, the Yale University Art Gallery and the Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, among others. Chong recently completed a faculty residency at the Anderson Ranch in Colorado and has just been awarded a grant from NYFA (New York Foundation for the Arts). She currently lives and works in New York.
¹Goodman, Jonathan. “Theresa Chong,” Art Asia Pacific, Issue 34, p. 87.
²Ibid.
Paintings and Works on Vellum, September 21 - October 20, 2001
