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Ying Hung: PUZZLE BREATHING

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Friday, 4 October 2024 to Friday, 18 October 2024
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Friday, 4 October 2024 - 6:00pm to 8:00pm

Chinese American Arts Council/Gallery 456 is pleased to present Ying Hung: PUZZLE BREATHING. on view from October 4, 2024 through October 18, 2024.

Exhibition Statement

Chinese American Art Council/Gallery 456 is pleased to present PUZZLE BREATHING, an exhibition of paintings and sculptures by Ying Hung. In this collection of recent work, Hung has developed a visual language to explore themes around change and temporality. Each work can be viewed as a microcosm of a personal and metaphysical environment in which emotions, memories, and history collide or merge in puzzle-like patterns.

Much of Hung’s work is an ongoing investigation into “constructing forms while deconstructing reality.[1]” The artist’s use of textured strokes or surfaces lend the pieces a humanistic quality while a pervasive overlapping and juxtaposing of lines, shapes, and motifs elicit a sense of shifting spaces and motion.

Simultaneously, the picture or object is frozen in a point in time, and the fragments and pieces that appear before the eyes suggest a world that’s partially and purposely concealed. What one cannot see remains a deepening mystery throughout the exhibit, and Hung employs all of the above techniques to create a complex sensory experience.

PUZZLE BREATHING captures a mysterious realm and its evolving environment; like photos or mementos from a journey, the totality of the experience is delimited to what can be rendered or brought back in physical form. Paradoxically, these parameters allow the viewer to transcend them, and Hung’s skillful construction of boundaries intensifies the exhibit’s overall allusion: A multitude of worlds puzzle in and out of the eye’s view, and they continue to transform and exist regardless of our human reality.

Ying Hung is a New York-based artist who received her MFA from Pratt Institute. Ying has been awarded a Joan Mitchell Foundation grant. She is widely shown in the US and internationally. She participated in the Art Biennale hosted by the Hong Kong Arts Centre in 1983, and her work has been shown in New York, including PSI (1990), the Bronx Museum of the Arts (2000) and Nars Foundation (2022). Since 1994, Hung has also held group and solo exhibitions in major museum and galleries in Taiwan, such as Turning Gazes: Woman and Arts in Dialogue (2013) at the Juming Museum, Perpetual Journey (2010), Mind and Matter: Derivation (2019) and Plus IV (2021) at Tina Keng Gallery.

Press release written by Leejong Wong

Opening Reception: Oct 4, 6-8pm

Please contact info@caacarts.org for more information.

 

[1]  Chia Chi Jason Wang, “Human and Nature: Ying Hung’s Recent Work,” in Mind and Matter: Derivation (Taipei, Tina Keng Gallery, 2019)

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Ying Hung was born in 1958 in Hong Kong. She received her BA from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and her MFA from the Pratt Institute. Ying has been awarded a Three River Festival grant as well as a Joan Mitchell Foundation grant. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

The cross-cultural experiences she accumulated throughout her life have played a crucial role in forming her unique perspectives and nurturing her artistic practice.

She combines images and abstraction to negotiate and explore the relationship between matter, element of nature and temporality in her way of seeing. Her paintings and sculptures can be viewed as a series of puzzles to bring forth a complex, contrastive, and ambiguous sensory experience.

Hung has exhibited her work in the US and internationally. She participated in the Art Biennale hosted by the Hong Kong Arts Centre in 1983, and her work has been shown in New York, including PSI (1990), the Bronx Museum of the Arts (2000) and Nars Foundation (2022). Since 1994, Hung has also held group and solo exhibitions in major museum and galleries in Taiwan, such as Turning Gazes: Woman and Arts in Dialogue (2013) at the Juming Museum, Perpetual Journey (2010), Mind and Matter: Derivation (2019) and Plus IV (2021) at Tina Keng Gallery.­

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Gallery 456

Hours: M-F, 1-5PM and by appointment

Address: 456 Broadway, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10013, Elevator Accessible Contact: (212) 431-9740 | info@caacarts.org

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