Chung-Ping Cheng - "Love Lotus Essay #6, 2019"
Artwork Title, Year: Love Lotus Essay #6, 2019
Medium: Photography, Black and White, Gelatin Silver print
Dimensions as Exhibited: 24"x20"
Price: $1900 each piece
Artist Bio: Chung-Ping Cheng
Chung-Ping Cheng graduated from National Taiwan University, where she majored in
History. She spent much of her years absorbing millennia of art works and artifacts
at the museums. In the U.S., she took intensive art and photography courses,
pursuing her interest in art and photography. Cheng is among a new wave of Chinese
photographers to re-introduce aspects of China’s considerable aesthetic heritage
within contemporary photography. Cheng’s work was included most recently in LA
Art Show, presented by Los Angeles Art Association, and Solo Exhibitions at the
1839 Contemporary Gallery in Taiwan, Shoebox Projects and TAG Gallery in Los
Angeles
Artist Statement: "Temperament is like wind, you cannot touch it, but you can feel it when it's blowing* Chang Shao Feng, Chinese (Taiwanese) author
Love Lotus Essay is inspired by Chinese scholar and philosopher Zhou Dunyi's poem "On the Love of the Lotus" (1063AD). He used the Lotus flower as a metaphor for the "Ideal" person...an anthropocosmic view of human nature, ethics and the authentic self. The Lotus flower grows and flourishes in mud while remaining pure and unstained.
This photographic series Love Lotus Essay, like Zhou's prose, celebrates the intangible and the timeless- uncontaminated by external influences and circumstances, staying true to one's better self.
For this project, I layer my images with painting; write with Japanese pigments;and use Chinese chops-an ancient means of identification and signature- on black and white silver gelatin photographic prints. My work and process achieve something new from intangible aspects of things and times from our past. I have long been attracted to the conceptual combined with the tangible as in Georgia O'Keefe's paintings or Zhou Dunyi's writings. I'm grateful for the timeless ideas and images that continue to inform my work.
Artwork Title, Year: Love Lotus Essay #6, 2019
Medium: Photography, Black and White, Gelatin Silver print
Dimensions as Exhibited: 24"x20"
Price: $1900 each piece
Artist Bio: Chung-Ping Cheng
Chung-Ping Cheng graduated from National Taiwan University, where she majored in
History. She spent much of her years absorbing millennia of art works and artifacts
at the museums. In the U.S., she took intensive art and photography courses,
pursuing her interest in art and photography. Cheng is among a new wave of Chinese
photographers to re-introduce aspects of China’s considerable aesthetic heritage
within contemporary photography. Cheng’s work was included most recently in LA
Art Show, presented by Los Angeles Art Association, and Solo Exhibitions at the
1839 Contemporary Gallery in Taiwan, Shoebox Projects and TAG Gallery in Los
Angeles
Artist Statement: "Temperament is like wind, you cannot touch it, but you can feel it when it's blowing* Chang Shao Feng, Chinese (Taiwanese) author
Love Lotus Essay is inspired by Chinese scholar and philosopher Zhou Dunyi's poem "On the Love of the Lotus" (1063AD). He used the Lotus flower as a metaphor for the "Ideal" person...an anthropocosmic view of human nature, ethics and the authentic self. The Lotus flower grows and flourishes in mud while remaining pure and unstained.
This photographic series Love Lotus Essay, like Zhou's prose, celebrates the intangible and the timeless- uncontaminated by external influences and circumstances, staying true to one's better self.
For this project, I layer my images with painting; write with Japanese pigments;and use Chinese chops-an ancient means of identification and signature- on black and white silver gelatin photographic prints. My work and process achieve something new from intangible aspects of things and times from our past. I have long been attracted to the conceptual combined with the tangible as in Georgia O'Keefe's paintings or Zhou Dunyi's writings. I'm grateful for the timeless ideas and images that continue to inform my work.
Artwork Title, Year: Love Lotus Essay #6, 2019
Medium: Photography, Black and White, Gelatin Silver print
Dimensions as Exhibited: 24"x20"
Price: $1900 each piece
Artist Bio: Chung-Ping Cheng
Chung-Ping Cheng graduated from National Taiwan University, where she majored in
History. She spent much of her years absorbing millennia of art works and artifacts
at the museums. In the U.S., she took intensive art and photography courses,
pursuing her interest in art and photography. Cheng is among a new wave of Chinese
photographers to re-introduce aspects of China’s considerable aesthetic heritage
within contemporary photography. Cheng’s work was included most recently in LA
Art Show, presented by Los Angeles Art Association, and Solo Exhibitions at the
1839 Contemporary Gallery in Taiwan, Shoebox Projects and TAG Gallery in Los
Angeles
Artist Statement: "Temperament is like wind, you cannot touch it, but you can feel it when it's blowing* Chang Shao Feng, Chinese (Taiwanese) author
Love Lotus Essay is inspired by Chinese scholar and philosopher Zhou Dunyi's poem "On the Love of the Lotus" (1063AD). He used the Lotus flower as a metaphor for the "Ideal" person...an anthropocosmic view of human nature, ethics and the authentic self. The Lotus flower grows and flourishes in mud while remaining pure and unstained.
This photographic series Love Lotus Essay, like Zhou's prose, celebrates the intangible and the timeless- uncontaminated by external influences and circumstances, staying true to one's better self.
For this project, I layer my images with painting; write with Japanese pigments;and use Chinese chops-an ancient means of identification and signature- on black and white silver gelatin photographic prints. My work and process achieve something new from intangible aspects of things and times from our past. I have long been attracted to the conceptual combined with the tangible as in Georgia O'Keefe's paintings or Zhou Dunyi's writings. I'm grateful for the timeless ideas and images that continue to inform my work.