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- Huang Chia-Ning|Something Left, or Not
- 2012|08.11-09.02
Opening 2012|08.11 4pm - Lin & Lin Gallery
LIN & LIN Gallery is proud to present this solo exhibit by Huang Chia-Ning” Something Left, or Not”, whose works are distinct from the conservative realistic paintings.
Inspired by the snapshots or some casually taken photographs, Huang does not have a certain method on selecting the theme or an ideal regulation to follow. She refers herself as a container carrying different visual experiences. The viewers can find the artist’s life fragments and personal sense of humor through the pictures she drawn, for example, an unfinished dinner/lunch box, flock of sparrows on a lawn, and even the kitchen waste in a sink.
Huang concretes her pile of experiences with oil paints, turning into her still life works. She does not adhere to accurately interpret pictures form the photos but more focuses on how images produce visual experiences by oil paints and brushstrokes. Huang enlarges the pictures onto canvases and all the blurred or intensified objects and the background lead viewers to look at her works with a different perspective. Huang intentionally abandons to reproduce the detail of objects but she exquisitely captures the lights and colors to emphasize on the pictoriality of works differing from photographs, for instance, the work “Jingle Bells”. It is just like what Huang said that the so-called “intermediary” is not the reverse and reproduction of images between materials (photos) and products (works) but also became a communicator. A communicator to reflect the experiences of self consciousness from the artist, at the same time to carry out a dialogue between contemporary digital information and modern paintings.
Being diverse from Huang’s realistic contemporaries, Huang became an obvious and certain exception. She rereads her perception on canvases, instead of reproducing or replicating the images from photos. The themes from life experiences and the pictionality that she insists, once again display the artist’s challenge of art theory and visual experience.
Huang Chia-Ning, born in 1979 in Taipei, and currently works and lives in Taichung. She won the Kaohsiung Award Grand Prize in 2006 Her works were twice nominated for Taipei Award and won the Honorable Mention Prize and collected by Taipei Fine Arts Museum in 2007. She has been recognized as one of the most promising young artist by curators and art museums within contemporary art field in Taiwan. The artist’s works are worldwide invited to exhibitions and collected.