Fine artist Steve Chua is putting together his two contrastive collections, in his upcoming solo exhibition entitled Limelight Blossoms, from the series that he has developed concurrently over eight years.
Steve first explored abstract creation in 2002. Since then he has been actively exploring unusual forms, contours, patterns and textures of various living organisms. These unusual forms he christened “Blossoms”. Through time spent in observation, Steve continues to translate his discoveries for “Blossoms” onto canvases.
While creating abstract pieces for “Blossoms” and following a formal education in graphic design, Steve’s attention was caught by post-modern popular culture and modelling today - where viewers are introduced by various media contents that serve widely to capture their senses and induce thoughts. These stimuli then became the subject of his series “Limelight”, coexisting with his abstract forms in “Blossoms”.
This simulated lifestyle in “Limelight” is exposed in Steve’s dreamlike flawless world which turns darker than his earlier works of this series. Hues in clouds of lipstick red, and a backlight that glows with fascinating energy, though painted rather dim; and the green that nevertheless finishes the mystical element, engulfs his subject much without them realizing.
Through the perspective of Singaporean artist, Steve Chua, Limelight Blossoms brings you on a journey into the world of stardom and his coherent subject of metamorphosis and living matters. The title is a combination of the similes "Limelight" and “Blossoms”, placing together a tale on the growth of humanity in a cycle of desire for limelight with the materialization of natural objects of magnified surfaces.