Artify Gallery is proud to re-present a joint exhibition by three acclaimed local artists Vivian Ho, Sarah Tse and Eve Leung, who will showcase fantastical and ethereal works that are embedded in romanticism and illusive dreams. Sarah Tse’s drawings convey her desire for escapism into a wonderland full of her imagination, whereas sensual threads of dreams, surreal elements and romantic love weave their way through Eve Leung’s paintings, and Vivian Ho’s work portrays famous movie quotes and scenes that have been transformed into everyday life, essentially rooting her dreams into reality. Reverie showcases both previously exhibited and never before seen works by the female artists for the public to rediscover and reimagine. The exhibition will run from 20th May until 15th July 2015.
Vivian Ho draws on inspiration from her home-city of Hong Kong in her figurative oil paintings, charcoal drawings and mixed media creations. By capturing an emotional and highly authentic view of Hong Kong, Ho battles notions of loneliness and identity, as well as much deeper cultural and political issues. By drawing on classic scenes from Director Wong Kar-wai’s filmography, Ho takes these nostalgic snapshots of Hong Kong only to re-project the aesthetics into alternative realities. By making the surreal real, Ho reinterprets our city for the audience to behold.
The mesmerizing and acutely detailed, paradoxical pencil drawings by Sarah Tse are inspired by her childhood memories, travels and dreams. Her exquisite pencil and paper sketches portrays innocent and vulnerable images of woodland creatures, towering stacks of household objects, and fragile butterflies and roses that are juxtaposed by produced feelings of nostalgia and a disturbing ambience. Through her imaginative works, Tse manipulates the meaning of objects, thus giving them a new identity, and an alternative reality for viewers to enter.
Eve Leung uses the meticulous method of Gong bi to record daily life and humble objects, such as a single light bulb and standing mirror. She transforms the banality of these objects into a reimagined form, and by providing a fantastical element to her subjects; Leung blurs the lines between dreams and reality.
About Vivian Ho:
Born and bred in Hong Kong, young emerging artist Vivian Ho is a graduate of Wesleyan University. Her practice consists of figurative oil paintings, charcoal on paper as well as mixed media works that deal consistently with the notions of life and death, while referencing the emotional attachment to the city in which she grew up. Capturing an authentic view of Hong Kong, from the lives of ordinary people to common wet markets, where both slaughtering and butchering happen daily, Ho questions much deeper social and cultural issues than her works may seem on first encounter.
About Sarah Tse:
Born in Hong Kong in 1985, Sarah Tse graduated from Central Saint Martins College in 2009. She has since been exhibiting around the world in New York, London, Manchester, Shanghai, Beijing, Tokyo, Taipei and other cities. In 2011, Tse was awarded by Perspective Magazine as a winner of ’40 under 40’, cementing her reputation as one of the most promising and outstanding young artists from Asia. Her recent exhibitions include: Spring Benefit, White Box, New York, US (2013); Shanghai and its Talisman, Office339 Gallery, Shanghai (2012);Ecstasy and Captivity, Linkbridge at Lincoln House, Swire Island East, HK (2011); Affordable Art Fair and London Art Fair in the UK (2011). Her works are highly sought after by private collections around the world. Sarah Tse lives and works in New York City.
About Eve Leung:
Eve Leung Yee Ting graduated from the Chinese University, Hong Kong with a Bachelors of Arts in 2010 and a Master of Fine Arts in 2012. Leung’s works have been finalists in the Asia Contemporary Art Show – Hong Kong Young Artist and the Hong Kong Contemporary Art Award in 2012. Leung has also received critical recognition from the Hong Kong Chinese Meticulous Painting Association Creative Award and Chinese Painting and Calligraphy Painting Award. Her work is in the collection of the Hong Kong Art Museum as well as several private collections.
Leung has great respect for the poetic license of Chinese gong bi and hopes that her practice can fulfill the unanswerable questions of life, capturing fleeting elements that resist physical grasp such as the flow of water, the escapism of dreams and the remnants of memory – with ink on paper she has visions of eternal harmony. She lives and works in Hong Kong and currently holds a role at a local museum.
