NILSON GALLERY EXHIBITION:
CHUNG-FAN CHANG
KITE XIII: EMARGINATE
September 13th - October 13th 2024
Opening Reception:
Friday, September 20th, 2024
Nilson Gallery Hours:
Tuesdays - Sundays: 10am-4pm
Mondays Closed
EXHBIT STATEMENT
Kite XIII: Emarginate is part of my Kite series, which began in 2009 and includes paintings, installation, videos, and works on paper. Emarginate is one of the common visual elements of my work that the viewer may identify in the imaginary landscape. It represents a state of being as imperfection. I am interested in the emarginate characters of organic forms as imperfection, perhaps as a unique expression of beauty. I attempt to embrace imperfection as perfection, and to find a balanced beauty in the abstract landscape that responds to daily experience and personal history as a Chinese/Taiwanese American.
ARTIST STATEMENT
The work attempts to reconcile my experience of displacement while reflecting formal aspects of Chinese ink painting. The color palette conveys my Chinese/Taiwanese heritage with a blend of irregular geometry in the abstract landscape. The vivid color fields in the abstract composition suggest intruders to the surroundings. Through juxtaposing the fluorescent/artificial colors with organic forms, the intense yet flat colors disturb our vision and that restless sensation results in a metaphor of conflict, void, and discomfort in my social relationships. I am interested in color interactions, gradations, and color perceptions through Eastern aesthetics. The abstract landscape draws inspirations from life experience and meditation, while expressing the visual simile of color and its significance in Eastern and Western culture.
*Definition of "emarginate":(adj.) having a notched tip; notched at the margin; a recess, notch, or hollow in a margin or outline, such as in a feather or a leaf.
