Please join me to celebrate my new solo show on 3rd July 2008.
ITs from 6-10 pm at Vorpal Space gallery, Portland, and on the corner of Broadway and Flanders.
The show runs til 31st July and is open by appointment only- tel 503 577 0530.
2 weeks ago2 weeks ago
Brian Lane, enthusiastic print collector extraordinaire, has put one of my
prints in his latest curated show in Seattle. It opens tomorrow evening.
OPENING: BallardWorks - 2nd Floor.
SAT. JUNE 14, 6 - 9pm. Show runs through JULY 1.
Show preview: www.flickr.com/photos/printzerostudios
BallardWorks www.ballardworks.org 206.784.9987
2856 NW Market Street, Seattle, WA 98107
(located on the 2nd floor, above Sev Shoon & across the street from Taco Time)
Also I will be part of the new members show at Print Arts Northwest, a
gallery in Portland. The show will run from the 1st July-4th August and
is called Magnificent 7.
More information can be found at www.printartsnw.org
The opening party is on the 3rd of July, but there will also be an annual
meet the artist party night on the 17th July, which sounds like fun.
Please come along!
Press Release
New Prints by Wuon-Gean Ho
“The series of prints comprise gigantic portraits, up-close and personal. Each one conveys its own fragmented dream state or internal reality brought to the surface. Juxtaposition of background to foreground tailors a stark, haunting effect. It is this illusion of textual and spatial metaphors, exacted via the artwork’s construction, that gives Ho’s work such originality.”
B Logan, Art Critic, 2008.
Since the summer of 2007 Wuon-Gean Ho has been developing this body of work that explores issues of identity, internal dialogue, and buried memories. The masked faces in the series ‘Masks Unmasked’ portray a combination of emotions and histories, with a multiplicity of imagery that shifts in and out of focus depending on the viewer’s gaze. Beasts and lovers, feathered monsters and sinuous angels hide within and form part of the shape of each mask. The ambiguity of these lines and shapes creates an abstract narrative for longer contemplation.
The prints have evolved from finely detailed linocuts to a large scale silkscreen prints, hand printed in East London. Powerful gestural marks and sharp incised lines dominate the faces, recalling the lines on our palms that tell the future and the past. The laid pattern of the paper possesses a texture that evokes the tactility of skin. The colours are luminous, vibrant and intense, an apt parallel for intense emotions and symbolism.
British born of Malaysian and Singaporean parents, Wuon-Gean Ho graduated as a veterinary surgeon before receiving a scholarship to study traditional woodblock printmaking in Kyoto, Japan. She has held printmaking residencies in London, Oregon and Kyoto. Alongside the print work she also makes artist’s books which are currently on display in London and Edinburgh. This year Ho will be having solo shows of her artwork in the UK, USA and Canada.
Contact Wuon-Gean Ho
18 Sandford Avenue, London, N22 5EH.
Tel +44 7711 391 544
http://www.wuongean.com wuongean@hotmail.com
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Showing at
Asia House Café t
16th June- 9th August 08 (closed Saturday 21st and 28th June)
Opening night Thursday 19th June 6.30-8.30 pm
63 New Cavendish Street, London, W1G 7LB
http://www.asiahouse.org/
Closest Tube Oxford Circus/ Regent’s Park
Map at http://www.ukattraction.com/london/map/asia-house.htm
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