Not Your Ear (in Blue)
Completed
2019
Medium
Encaustic and mixed media on wood
Dimensions
7"x 7"
Cost
$700.00
Description
Cecile Chong is a multimedia artist working in painting, sculpture, installation and video in which she layers materials, identities, histories and languages. Her work addresses ideas of culture interaction and interpretation, as well as the commonalities humans share both in our relationship to nature and to each other. Inspired by materials as signifiers, she is interested in how we acquire and share culture, and how world cultures now overlap and interact in ways previously inconceivable. With uncertainty looming in everything from our economies to our weather patterns, she's concerned with the fragility of our civilization despite the universality of its cultural underpinnings. In her work she's been looking at traditional artifacts and wondering what tangible relics we may leave for future generations and what they may say about who we were and how we lived.
About this Artist
Cecile Chong
Born in Ecuador to Chinese parents, Chong lives and works in New York. She has received fellowships and residencies including Urban Field Station, The Block Gallery/ AIM Artist Hub, BRIC Media Arts, the Joan Mitchell Center, Wave Hill Winter Workspace, the Lower East Side Printshop, MASS MoCA Studios, Jerome Foundation Travel and Study Grant, The Center for Book Arts, Socrates Sculpture Park, AIM – Bronx Museum, Urban Artist Initiative NYC, Aljira Emerge and the Joan Mitchell Foundation MFA Grant. Her public art installation EL DORADO – The New Forty Niners has been installed on Staten Island, the Bronx, Queens and Brooklyn. Solo exhibitions include Selenas Mountain, ICFAC at Pinta Miami, Smack Mellon, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Selena Gallery, BRIC House, Emerson Gallery Berlin, Germany, Honey Ramka Project Space, Figureworks, Praxis International Art Project Space, Corridor Gallery and ArtSPACE. Group exhibitions include El Museo del Barrio, Nevada Museum of Art, The Bronx Museum of Arts, Hunterdon Museum, CUE Art…
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