Environmental Freakology

December 1 - 19, 2015

Zhonghao Chen
 
 
installation - back gallery
 
 
installation - back gallery
 
 
installation - back gallery
 
Zhonghao Chen paints at full volume. When the works cohere, when compositions have intensities balanced with quiet areas, and brushstroke, medium, oil and marker pen sing from the same song sheet, there can be harmony. Then the paintings become environments, and wondrous compelling ones like Green Indulgence for example.

Green Indulgence

However sometimes the ecology gets a little freaky - as suggested by this particular exhibition title. Pretty and freak, hanging on the back of Independent Management is somewhat weird. Happy Viking is a bit the same. But Zen in oil and Pocket cosmology have atmospheric qualities and interest about their edges that gives them real oxygen. Zhonghao - allow yourself to be the painter you are, rather than the rebel you aspire to be - and you will again make terrific paintings.
JS

 
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Pretty and freak, on the back of Independent management         Green saving

 

Pretty and freak      Happy Viking    Fruitarian delight

 

Zen in oil        Pocket cosmology

 

installation view - small works

 

installation view - Independent management (and Green indulgence)

 

Details of works
 
Pretty and freak                oil on canvas             335 x 235mm              
Family thing oil on canvas       235 x 335mm    
Zen in oil          oil on canvas 335 x 440mm             
Happy Viking oil on canvas 440 x 335mm  
Pocket cosmology oil on canvas 335 x 440mm  
Fruitarian delight oil on canvas 440 x 335mm  
Green saving oil on linen 1200 x 1000mm     
Green indulgence oil on linen 1000 x 1200mm  
Independent management    oil on linen 1000 x 1200mm  
 
All works are from 2015