Su-Li Hung's New Paintings at June Kelly Gallery

Saturday, 23 June 2007 23:41

New York City - Meet Me at the River, an exhibition of new paintings by Su-Li Hung — an artist who is fascinated with shadow, light and movement she finds in rivers and trees — will open at the June Kelly Gallery, 591 Broadway, NYC on June 28. The exhibition will remain on view through August 3. Hung’s new body of work reflects her passion for the abstraction in nature manifest in the constant rhythmic shimmering motion of trees and rivers. For her, they are metaphors that reflect the real world that so few people ever notice. These paintings demonstrate her mesmerizing ability to capture the wonder of a tree or sunlight glistening in the ripples of a wave.

For these paintings, Hung has drawn inspiration from her poem, which begins, “Meet me at the River/ A tree standing there, … .” When a tree drops its leaves, she says, “The sky emerges in this tangled pattern of dark branches as a mosaic, tiles of light held firmly in the tree grip.”

The river, Hung says, “flows day and night, ever changing, breaking shapes, dripping dots, indefinite colors, weightless entities, icy cool, gentle, powerful, delicate, silent flatness, rocky noise.” These are the illusive attributes, the concepts that Hung has rendered so effectively on her canvases in her most recent paintings.

Hung’s works have been shown in many one-person and group exhibitions in the United States, Asia and Europe. Twenty-three books of her poetry and essays have been published in the past decade in Taiwan and Hong Kong. Hung is a graduate of the National Taiwan University in Taipei and also studied at the Art Students League and the National Academy School of Fine Arts in New York.

Hung’s work is represented in numerous collections world-wide, including the Cleveland Museum of Art, the Fogg Museum at Harvard University, the British Museum in London, the National Museum of Fine Art in Hanoi, the National Museum of History in Taipei, the Tama Art University Museum, Tokyo, the New York Public Library and the Library of Congress.

The June Kelly Gallery shows the works of young and emerging artists, as well as mid-career and established artists. The gallery’s major focus is contemporary painting, sculpture and photography, both abstract and figurative. The gallery was established in 1986 and is a member of the Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA). Before opening the gallery, June Kelly, the director, had been a private dealer for many years. In addition, she had managed the career of artist Romare Bearden for 13 years until his death in 1988.

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