Chasing Clouds: A Decade of Studies by Emily Cheng

Emily Cheng's work, combines the use of linguistic symbols and visual imagery to portray and construct spiritual connections between humanity, nature and the universe. This reflects the artist's pursuit of human origins and the exploration of the essence in the cosmos. Her works are concise and abstract, featuring bright and translucent colors. The arrangement and combination of dots, lines, and various geometric color blocks have become the distinctive features of her pieces. The composition of her works presents a tension of order through rational rigor. The layout of colors and variations in brightness create a sense of depth in both time and breadth in space. The entire picture is filled with the dynamic energy of the sun, moon, and stars, revealing a grand and vast serenity.

This immense monograph focuses on 305 drawings that she has made in the last decade, and includes an index that traces her diverse sources: China's Zhou to Qing Dynasties; Renaissance, Baroque and Byzantine art and architecture; Korean, Japanese and Indian cultures; the study of drapery in the West and in Asia, largely through religious figures; and depictions of the arabesque in plants, flowers, trees, clouds and fire in Taoist and Buddhist imagery. Cheng's work is contextualized within the field of contemporary abstract painting, and the subtle differences between European and Chinese techniques, influences and methodologies in her work are examined in detail.

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