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Artist Statement:
My work is about the heart’s
longing to be connected with
the largeness life, the
timeless arc of the universe.
I invite the viewer to
meditate on very old images to
discover the ways they still
speak to us. My work sets up a
conversation between stable,
ancient forms that have a
traditional base and my own
shape-shifting playfulness.
The tension that lends my work
drama and strangeness is the
contrast between forms that
express a timeless collective
culture and a pastiche
sensibility commonplace in
contemporary art. What I bring
to the mix is a use of vibrant
color, intense pattern making,
and a sensual delight in the
decorative. It is the pattern,
repetition, design and color
in my work that excite the
emotions of the viewer.
Rummaging through art history,
some of my favorite sources of
inspiration are Asian and
Islamic decorative patterns,
Chinese folk art, Egyptian
wall paintings, and mystical
and alchemical imagery from
the Middle Ages.
My love of and interest in
folk art stems from the belief
that it is folk, or popular
art, that embodies the psyche
of the broadest swath of a
society. Such art, at its
best, has the virtue of ...
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Collections:
Wyeth Pharmaceuticals,
Collegeville, PA
WAM-Singapore
United States State
Department, U.S. Embassy,
Kazakhstan
State of Florida’s Collection
of Art, Florida Atlantic
University, Wimberly Library
Sheraton Hotels, Brussels,
Belgium
Scholastic Productions, New
York, NY
Robins Kaplan Miller Ciersi,
St. Paul, MN
Novartis Pharmaceuticals,
Philadelphia, PA
Milbank, Tweed, Hadley &
McCloy, ...
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Commissions:
2006
New York Metropolitan Transit
Authority Arts for Transit
commission of seven faceted
glass windscreens at the
Cleveland Station on the
Jamaica (J, M, and Z) subway
line in the Cypress Hills
neighborhood of Brooklyn, New
York. Titled Las Flores,
Spanish for The Flowers, the
windscreen designs use flower
patterns...
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Amy Cheng Biography:
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Amy Cheng was born in Taiwan, raised in Brazil, Oklahoma and Texas. She received a BFA degree from the University of Texas at Austin, and an MFA degree from Hunter College, City University of New York. She has three completed public art commissions: 1) a mosaic column for the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, 2) seven faceted glass windscreens commissioned by the New York Metropolitan Transportation Authority Arts for Transit for the Cleveland Street Subway Station on the Jamaica Line in Brooklyn, New York, and 3) a suite of murals for the auditorium at P.S. 58, The School of Heroes, in Queens, NY commissioned by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs Percent for Art Program. The Florida Art in State Buildings Program has installed one of her paintings, “No Condition Is Permanent” in Florida Atlantic University’s S.W. Wimberly Library. She has had one-person exhibitions at Gallery 456 and Penny Liebman Contemporary Art in New York City, at the Harrison Gallery in Boca Raton, FL, and Art & Soul Gallery in Boulder, CO. She has received two New York Foundation for the Arts painting fellowships, and a travel grant to China from Arts International. She is a Professor in the Art Department at the State University of New York at New Paltz. |
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