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Artist Statement:
My work is about the heart’s
longing to be connected with
the largeness life, the
timeless arc of the universe.
I invite the viewer to
meditate on very old images to
discover the ways they still
speak to us. My work sets up a
conversation between stable,
ancient forms that have a
traditional base and my own
shape-shifting playfulness.
The tension that lends my work
drama and strangeness is the
contrast between forms that
express a timeless collective
culture and a pastiche
sensibility commonplace in
contemporary art. What I bring
to the mix is a use of vibrant
color, intense pattern making,
and a sensual delight in the
decorative. It is the pattern,
repetition, design and color
in my work that excite the
emotions of the viewer.
Rummaging through art history,
some of my favorite sources of
inspiration are Asian and
Islamic decorative patterns,
Chinese folk art, Egyptian
wall paintings, and mystical
and alchemical imagery from
the Middle Ages.
My love of and interest in
folk art stems from the belief
that it is folk, or popular
art, that embodies the psyche
of the broadest swath of a
society. Such art, at its
best, has the virtue of ...
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Collections:
Wyeth Pharmaceuticals,
Collegeville, PA
WAM-Singapore
United States State
Department, U.S. Embassy,
Kazakhstan
State of Florida’s Collection
of Art, Florida Atlantic
University, Wimberly Library
Sheraton Hotels, Brussels,
Belgium
Scholastic Productions, New
York, NY
Robins Kaplan Miller Ciersi,
St. Paul, MN
Novartis Pharmaceuticals,
Philadelphia, PA
Milbank, Tweed, Hadley &
McCloy, ...
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Commissions for Amy Cheng:
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2006
New York Metropolitan Transit Authority Arts for Transit commission of seven faceted glass windscreens at the Cleveland Station on the Jamaica (J, M, and Z) subway line in the Cypress Hills neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York. Titled Las Flores, Spanish for The Flowers, the windscreen designs use flower patterns taken from a long tradition of folk decoration. Las Flores uses bright, pastel, cheerful, high key, tropical colors in honor of the hardworking Dominicans who have made Cypress Hills a lovely, stable, economically vibrant neighborhood.
2004
Seattle-Tacoma International Airport STEP Nine Columns/Nine Artists Project in Terminal A. I took as my inspiration for this project the fact that Seattle-Tacoma International Airport is a major gateway for travel to and from the Far East. Embedded in a background of convex spheres emerge two line-drawn Chinese dragons. The twenty-foot tall, three-foot in diameter column is banded in two places by gold designs placed against a turquoise background. Scattered amidst the regularity of the background geometry are irregular dotted splotches of gold and deep blue which form another visual layer to a design that relies on a sense of layering for its visual complexity.
2004
Florida Atlantic University S.W. Wimberly Library Expansion. Art in State Buildings purchase of existing artwork, No Condition is Permanent, a painting on canvas measuring 48 by 72 inches for the interior wall space inside the two-story tall lobby.
2002
New York City Department of Cultural Affairs Percent for Art Program commission of a suite of painted mural panels and a stage proscenium in the school auditorium of P.S. 58, The School of Heroes, a Pre-K-5 school in Maspeth, Queens. The school is dedicated to the uniformed men and women who lived and worked in Maspeth who died on 9/11.
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