HK/NY
dal 15/5/2002 al 8/6/2002
Segnalato da
15/5/2002
HK/NY
Plum Blossoms Gallery, New York
Maria Lobo and Don Kwan were both born and raised in Hong Kong. They sought training in art elsewhere. While both artists were trained in the techniques and methods of Western art, they have turned to their own cultural heritage for the inspiration that feeds their art.
Works by Maria Lobo and Don KH Kwan
Maria Lobo and Don Kwan were both born and raised in Hong Kong.
They sought training in art elsewhere. While both artists were
trained in the techniques and methods of Western art, they have
turned to their own cultural heritage for the inspiration that feeds
their art. After living and working in California, Maria Lobo has
returned to make her home in Hong Kong once again. Don Kwan is
presently living and working in New York City.
Maria Lobo has called herself "a product of colonialism in Asia" and
her diverse ethnicity certainly reflects this: she is Chinese, British,
Timorese, Portuguese, Macanese and Malay. To the mix she was
born with she has added her own experiences living, studying and
making art in Europe and the United States. Lobo works in a
mixture of media, building imagery and textures in acrylic, oil, paper
collage and pumice on canvas. She builds her pictures using the
repetition of imagery, such as the gold and silver of prayer papers,
almanac pages, the silhouettes of Qing mandarins, and rice bowls.
Anchoring these floating images are layers of colour and graceful
lines and swirls. Scoring and scraping the canvas, the artist cuts
through these layers removing visual information. The results are
works, which are at once peaceful and disturbing. Maria Lobo's
works have been exhibited in Asia, Europe and the United States.
She was a member of the San Francisco Hunter's Point artist's
community prior to returning to Hong Kong in 1994.
In his paintings, Don KH Kwan seeks to convey the majesty of
Nature. Like his artistic predecessors in the Chinese literati ink
painting tradition, he is not concerned with painting the mountain,
but with communicating the inner spirit and emotion contained
within the idea of the mountain. Layers of juxtaposed colours and
abstracted forms capture the rhythm and majesty of Nature. As
with a traditional Chinese landscape, the paintings invite the viewer
to enter their depths and join in the artist's creative journey. Don KH
Kwan received his MA from Wimbledon School of Art in London in
1999. His paintings have been exhibited and reside in collections in
Asia, Europe and the United States.
Image: Maria Lobo, January Bowls
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