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Posted By Dja Horry
Marlene Tseng Yu: Forces of Nature
through November 14, 2009
Admission: $8 adults, $4 students, free 16 and under
Chelsea Art Museum
556 west 22nd street
212-255-0719
Hours:
Open Tues – Sat 11am to 6 pm
Thursday 11am to 8 pm
Closed Sunday and Monday
chelseaartmuseum.org
marlenetsengyu.com
'Avalanche' (1998)
The Chelsea Art Museum presents an exhibition featuring the recent works of painter Marlene Tseng Yu: one of the outstanding leaders of the green movement in art. The exhibition, the artist’s 60th major solo show, includes the Glacier Melting Series from the early 1970s, providing viewers with the opportunity to see how her powerful vision of a pure and untrammeled nature grounded in a unique synthesis of abstract and realist values in Chinese and Western cultural influences, anticipated key concerns of the conservation movement today with global warming.
This series also highlights the artist’s experimentation with acrylic medium and the invention of new brush techniques that she began developing four decades ago. The paintings on display from the late 1990s and 2000s, including a number of the artist’s internationally celebrated monumental canvases – as large as 12 feet high and 36 feet long – are indicative of a wide range of natural phenomena, from avalanches to forests to underwater treasures, which serve as the subjects of the multiple and simultaneous ongoing series comprising Forces of Nature, the artist’s central theme.
Born in Taiwan in 1937, the artist received her BFA and MFA degrees in fine arts from National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, and the University of Colorado, Boulder. The artist has shown extensively since the 1960s throughout Asia, Europe, and the United States. The National Gallery in Prague, Czech Republic, and the National Art Museum of China, Beijing, are among the venues of her most recent exhibitions. A new solo exhibition will open concurrently in October at Today Art Museum, Beijing.
The artist’s work has been widely reviewed in nine languages in more than 140 publications, including Artforum, Art in America, and Art News, by leading art critics Lawrence Campbell, Ronny Cohen, Jonathan Goodman, Gerrit Henry, April Kingsley, Donald Kuspit, Robert Morgan, Cynthia Nadelman, Carter Ratcliff, Lily Wei, and Jeffrey Wright. From 1969 to 2007, the artist lived and worked in Soho, New York, and in 2008 opened a studio in Long Island City, New York. Since 1995, the artist has curated Forces of Nature group exhibitions and poetry readings in praise of rain forests highlighting the green movement in art.
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