SUM – NOT Just Colouring Matter!

Opening reception on Friday 3rd April 2009. 7 to 9pm. Come join us and meet Mr. Chow Sum Woon!

 

About exhibition:

The series of work in this exhibition embodies a contemporary take on abstraction in painting rooted in the modernist tradition. Far from being a project of retrogression or appropriation, through these canvases, the artist interrogates the nature of painting and its role in a paradigm of ‘perfect’ digital production/reproduction – an age in which our reliance on the silicon chip is creeping towards the absolute.

Juxtaposing colours, forms, marks, textures these paintings revealed dichotomies between repression and expression, control and chance, harmony and discord, calculation and chaos – metaphors for what it is to be human.

 

About the artist:

Originally from Singapore Chow Sum Woon lives and paints in Adelaide. He has an honours degree in visual arts from the South Australian School of Art, University of South Australia and has been exhibiting in group and solo shows for ten years.

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It was a HIGHLY delightful night!

Rasha celebrated with friends! (far right)

woohoo… electic and fun! Hope to see you guys the next reception!

RASHA!!! RASHA!! RASHA!!!

“When little I was the artist in the building where I lived (Dubai), I proudly taught the kids in the building how to draw and helped them do their school projects that required a touch of art, and in return they made sure to get me nice coloring sets on my birthday, I guess my being the daughter of a great artist well known all around the middle east Nasr Abdul-Aziz made it easier for me to be recognized as an artist… and it wasn’t a hard decision to go to art school, first in Jordan then in Rome, although it was great experience I don’t think I really learnt any more than I could’ve learnt at home from my father whom I inherited my passion for oil paint from, another thing I share with my father is our inspiration and art critic my mother Siham who has a romantic eye for art, another passion of mine is kids story books which I illustrated a fare number of but still yet to write one… hopefully I will get the time to do so soon, After my studies I moved to Singapore, as a producer for Disney channel… still in Singapore but now I’m creating illustrations for both lifestyle and kids magazines and also animating kid’s drawings for Playhouse Disney channel. I work from my home, which I share with Mark, the lovely English man that I married, and our drama queen cat, Bella… ” RASHA.

Coming soon to Forth Gallery. Sign up in our mailing list at www.forth.sg to be invited to her opening reception on the 20th March 2009.

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