Inez Suen

[inezsuenart]

CHICAGO - Join us! Artist Talk: @gordoncheung at @chicagopubliclibrary Sept 21, 2019 3:30 PM @edelassanti @expochicago #CHICAGO #chinatown #artisttalk #expochicago #contemporaryart (at Chinatown Library) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2Kn03wFDr7/?igshid=6xx2eycl0bk1

[inezsuenart]

Please join us on September 21, 2019 at 3:30pm at the @chicagopubliclibrary Chinatown branch to welcome London based artist, @gordoncheung and take an in depth look at the inspirations and motivations behind his artworks in the @edelassanti booth at the @expochicago #artisttalk #chicago #expochicago #artist #contemporaryart #paintings #chinatown (at Chinatown Library) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2H64N-Fs6Q/?igshid=ftaer43wfohq

[inezsuenart]

Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power 1963-1983.  It’s a comprehensive survey of contemporary Black artists and movements spanning two decades, with a special section dedicated to L.A. based creators.  #la #broadmuseum #dtla #travelingcurator #museum #art #inezsuen (at The Broad) https://www.instagram.com/p/B19A5ClFhFD/?igshid=1oe2xrvk6wiqi

[inezsuenart]

Soul of a Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power 1963-1983.  It’s a comprehensive survey of contemporary Black artists and movements spanning two decades, with a special section dedicated to L.A. based creators.  #la #broadmuseum #dtla #travelingcurator #museum #art #inezsuen (at The Broad) https://www.instagram.com/p/B19A5ClFhFD/?igshid=1oe2xrvk6wiqi

[gordoncheung]

Frank Yang Art and Education Foundation has acquired ‘Valley’, 150x200cm / 2018. Pleased that a painting about Shenzhen will be staying there having recently been shown in my first HK solo show and in a group show at Design Society, Shenzhen ✨ The Shenzhen Stock Exchange is based in the mega-city of Shenzhen otherwise known as the Silicon Valley of China that has developed within 15 years to symbolise one of the many economic miracles of China. It is one of two stock exchanges operating independently in the People’s Republic of China, the other being the larger Shanghai Stock Exchange. Currently it is the 8th largest in the world with it’s neighbour in Hong Kong being 7th. China is proposing to dissolve the border between HK and Shenzhen heralding further accelerated changes between the two cities and the questions of what home is ✨ #gordoncheung #galeriehuit #china #chinasiliconvalley #shenzhen #shenzhenstockexchange #hongkong #borders #landscape #painting #technosublime #art @galeriehuithk https://www.instagram.com/p/Bzr6oVYlpso/?igshid=121ph6eqddn54

[nevver]

Flora and Fauna, Slava (Thisset) Semeniuta

[thenextartmovement]

Moscow: Shchukin Biography of a Collection

During my recent trip to visit family in Moscow, I was able to visit the Shchukin Biography of a Collection exhibition at The Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts. Sergei Shchukin (1854-1936) was a Russian businessman and art collector that was fascinated by Impressionist and Post-Impressionist art. Throughout his life, he became both a patron and longstanding associate of artists such as Henri Matisse. As an assemblage of works collected by not only Sergei Shchukin, but also his three brothers, the exhibition is huge in scale and occupies a large portion of the museum. I found myself wandering through almost the entire museum for several hours as I listened intently to the audio guide in my native language. As one of the most prominent and widely renowned collections of European Modernist art, I was excited to step foot into a museum I had never visited before in order to explore this temporary exhibition. As I walked through the collection, I found myself enamored by the works and trends of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. 

Lilac in the Sun by Claude Monet, 1872-73 oil on canvas. 

I was amazed by how many people I saw contemplating the works of artists such as Paul Signac, Camille Pissarro, Gustave Courbe, Claude Monet, Frits Thaulow, and others in this gallery!

A collection of Paul Gauguin’s works, such as the work in the bottom center: Gathering Fruit. Tahiti Is A Wonderful Land (Ruperupe) by Paul Gauguin, 1899 oil on canvas.  I was a bit confused by the placement of Vincent van Gogh’s Portrait of Doctor Rey, 1889 oil on canvas at the top right! 

Here’s a picture of me listening to the audioguide in front of Paul Cézanne’s Pierrot and Harlequin, 1888 oil on canvas. 

Henri Matisse’s The Pink Studio, 1911 oil on canvas.

Listening to a description of Pablo Picasso’s Old Blind Man with Boy, 1901 oil on canvas. The gallery guide referred to it as one of his early works from his “blue period”. 

Friendship by Pablo Picasso, 1908 oil on canvas.

Jaguar Attacking a Horse by Henri Rousseau, 1910 oil on canvas. 

Prior to exiting the museum, I spent some time sitting and observing Henri Matisse’s massive and renowned work, The Dance (La Danse), 1910 oil on canvas. This work was commissioned by Sergei Shchukin as part of three large scale canvases he used to decorate the staircase of his home in Moscow.

[thenextartmovement]

Artist: Choi Sangchul

This past Art Basel Hong Kong, while having dimsum with friends, Joanne Lim, Founder and Director of J&S International Art Project, shows me this youtube video clip of a guy making art by rolling around a stone.  This immediately caught my attention, and lucky me! I happen to be flying to Seoul the following week.   

So Joanne picked me up at the hotel and we drove about an hour outside of the city to the Korean countryside where we pulled off onto a gravel road and up to this brown nondescript building.  Here, we were greeted by a 5ft tall, older Korean gentleman with wispy white hair and speaks at just slightly above a whisper.  

Choi Sangchul was a professor to university students of western oil paintings for many years.  Even while he taught full time, he was very studious about creating art and through regimented practice, developed his own artist voice.  And since retirement from teaching, he is now dedicated to his paintings.  He has set hours where he works and keeps tedious records of his progress.  

We enter into his spotless studio where there were several stacks of paintings.  Mr Choi with the help of Joanne’s translations starts telling me about his practice.  I think we started with his more traditional Korean abstract paintings from the 80′s.  At a mighty 5 ft, this man lifts paintings two times his size as if they were paper…actually, i thought it was paper.  Boy was I wrong!  It’s acrylic ink on linen!!  He stretches the canvases himself AND he doesn’t use a paint brush!! 🤔

In Choi’s older works, he uses deliberately planned strokes and more colors.

As Mr. Choi pulls away layers, the paintings become more contemporary and it’s clear that he has become very established in his style.  Mr. Choi has created for himself a very disciplined process to create art in order to eliminate the human ego from the paining process as much as possible.  He creates a type of stroke with an object (stone, stick, wire) in sketch form on paper, and then executes them on canvas.  Creating the marks, he leaves somewhat up to chance, sometimes as simply as flipping a coin, but always in repetitions of 1000.

Sketches of possible future paintings

Choi making marks on a painting with metal wire

It was an honor to meet Mr. Choi and visit his studio.  What’s next?  We hope to bring Mr. Choi’s work to the United States and work with US based galleries and insitutions, so more people can see more of his works.  :)  Want to know more? Please contact us for more information!

Choi and I in his studio in Seoul, Korea

Choi primarily works on the ground in his studio.

Sticks and branches Choi uses for his tools.

Using round stone dipped in acrylic paint to make marks on this painting.

Choi amongst his works in his studio.

Platter of river stones, hand picked by Choi for use in the studio.

[itscolossal]

Swirling Vortexes and Ghostly Humans Emerge From Hand-Painted Transparent Sheets by David Spriggs

[just-art5]

Everett Shinn - The Revue, 1908

[thisherelight]

I really should be posting more. the photos are pilling up. summer is flying by and I feel existentially behind on feeling things. that’s a thing. I’m all over the map trying to juggle work and both folks having more health issues and storm season and summer and adding timelapses in a real way this year. something is always being made but there’s no time to tell if it’s any good, or worth sharing, or worth remembering. it’s make it and get onto the next thing. also known as summer. 

[inezsuenart]

A quick morning walk around downtown Detroit is filled with public art and architecture.  #kaws #guardianbuilding #hartplaza #noguchi #spiritofdetroit #detroit #michigan #canada #undergroundrailroad (at Downtown Detroit) https://www.instagram.com/p/Bz3F43Ol-SH/?igshid=vrquxz930pug

[itscolossal]

Nature Thrives in Tehran’s Abandoned Courtyards, Staircases, and Bedrooms in a Photo Series by Gohar Dashti

[inezsuenart]

Tara Donovan: Fieldwork at @smartmuseum at @uchicago I first saw #taradonovan work at @pacegallery in New York (shiny mylar Xmas balls) Tara is known for taking one singular material and making amazing assemblages through placement and repetition. This exhibition gives anybody with OCD and hoarding tendencies something to contemplate 🤔 😂 Go check it out...it’s up all summer through September 22 #smartmuseum #installationart #artist #contemporaryart (at Smart Museum of Art) https://www.instagram.com/p/BzBGZ9lFRNB/?igshid=yb05fbirwn3s

[inezsuenart]

Tara Donovan: Fieldwork at @smartmuseum at @uchicago I first saw #taradonovan work at @pacegallery in New York (shiny mylar Xmas balls) Tara is known for taking one singular material and making amazing assemblages through placement and repetition. This exhibition gives anybody with OCD and hoarding tendencies something to contemplate 🤔 😂 Go check it out...it’s up all summer through September 22 #smartmuseum #installationart #artist #contemporaryart (at Smart Museum of Art) https://www.instagram.com/p/BzBGZ9lFRNB/?igshid=mc69xiaf7yj1

[inezsuenart]

@inezsuenart x @ubs bon appetit! Food and art go hand 🖐🏻 in hand 🤚🏾 Thank you to all who attended! Really looking forward to our next event. @oxalisnyc Thank you Steve and all the staff for accommodating us and making us feel extra special. The food, presentation and service is superb! 📷: @gbergphoto #aboutlastweek #tbt #experiential #art #dinnerparty #ubs #brooklyn (at Oxalis) https://www.instagram.com/p/BxPwA_FlDej/?igshid=11ar84nielkrh

[inezsuenart]

@inezsuenart x @ubs Yes! We make you do work before we eat at our events! Thank you @acrstudio for the beautiful #ceramics and #exquisitecorpse exercise. Can’t wait to see them!! 😊 Special thanks to @5oleil and @dumpling_bby for all your help with setup. It was gorgeous!! Thank you @oxalisnyc for putting up with our shenanigans. #aboutlastweek #tbt #experiential #art #dinnerparty #ubs #brooklyn (at Oxalis) https://www.instagram.com/p/BxPuChMlvyw/?igshid=1jzsc42yiw7nq