Detail: Chloe HO
Unconfined Illumination
13 September - 15 November 2019
3812 Gallery London
G/F, 21 Ryder Street, St. James’s, London SW1Y 6PX
Opening Hours: Monday – Friday 10:00 am to 6:30 pm / Saturday 11:00 am to 2:00 pm
‘There is beauty and artistic necessity in an unconfined illumination of expression. My vision floats unencumbered, as I present images to entice and engage the viewer.’——Chloe Ho
London, 9 August 2019 – 3812 Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition entitled Unconfined Illumination by Hong Kong-based artist Chloe Ho on view from 13 September to 15 November 2019, marking the artist’s debut solo exhibition in Europe.
Unconfined Illumination features a collection of Ho’s important paintings from 2011 to 2019, which demonstrate her use of a diversity of mediums, techniques and subjects. As an emerging artist, born in the 1980s in California and growing up in Hong Kong, Ho flows between ink, acrylic, coffee and charcoal. Influenced by both Eastern aesthetics and Western modern art, she dips Chinese brushes into coffee and ink, connecting the human form and imagery of Shan Shui nature. Ho makes use of charcoal to depict the tonal plurality of classic Shakespeare characters in a contemporary manner, envisioning a connection between past and present. She discloses her love of Klein, Bourgeois, Bacon, and Zhang Daqian with her use of the colour blue. Through dynamic and energetic brush strokes, Ho’s work melds Chinese tradition, modernity and bold mediums.
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