“That Moment Now” - Art Exhibition by Lingnan University Artist-in-Residence Celia Ko
Lingnan Un... more “That Moment Now” - Art Exhibition by Lingnan University Artist-in-Residence Celia Ko
Lingnan University (the University) will host an art exhibition of Ms Celia Ko, its artist-in-residence in 2008, from 22 February to 21 March 2009 at the university’s library.
The exhibition is titled “That Moment Now” because Ko thinks that time is a constant flow of moments that connects the past, present and future. The exhibition will showcase over two dozen of her works including 6 “dark paintings” and 2 large portraits, and her distinctive media-art objects which nick-named “wearables”.
“My inspiration comes from my grandmother’s story telling while I was a child: my personal memory fills with vivid images that some how connects with my feelings for old lacquer artifacts: they feel both far (being used by older generations through out Chinese history) and close (they were still my household utensils when I was little). Large paintings of my maternal grandparents bring me back in time, reconnecting myself to my grandparents as younger people of my age and re-establishing a relationship with, or provoking a reflection on that particular “life” moment lost in the past,” said Ko.
Paintings
Ko deepens her close investigation of her personal connection with family is expressed through 2 larger than life paintings of her grandparents that show them both in their younger stage in life, and in a series of “dark paintings” that consist of antique Chinese lacquer vessels, metaphors for the family stories she remembers listening to generations of elders: dark but vivid, distant but intimate, images flickering in the mind, from the past and in the present
Wearables
These are Ko's creation of jewel-like, mixed-media art objects which started years ago and are being shown in Hong Kong for the first time. These objects reflect her journey into exploring her family history in Hong Kong and China in the late Qing period to early 20th Century, loaded with meaning related to family history, folk stories and anecdotes that are both suggestive and humorous.
The party at Lan-T'ing, 1991. Los Angeles Public Library, Chinatown branch, exterior, 850 Yal... more The party at Lan-T'ing, 1991. Los Angeles Public Library, Chinatown branch, exterior, 850 Yale Street (mural on College St.), Chinatown. Chinese achievements in music, literature, and art are shown in the context of a party of important artists organized by the great Chinese calligrapher and poet, Wang Xi-Zhi, approximately 1700 years ago. A scroll documenting the event that Wang created after the party became an important part of Chinese art history. While there are many replicas throughout China, the original scroll is believed buried in the tomb of an emperor of the Tang dynasty. The artist's use of non-paint materials and his layering of colors are both techniques from traditional lacquer painting. Acrylic, glitter, sequins, eggshells, and pieces of costume jewelry, 17' x 40', by Shiyan Zhang, assisted by Celia Ko, DeQing Wang, Jack Wu II, and Anthony Mendoza. Sponsored by Social and Public Art Resource Center. -- Dunitz, Street gallery, rev. 2nd ed., p. 54, #83.
Parks and Recreation Department, Long Beach, USA, 1990
Cactus growing from a heart, Long Beach, 1990, California national Guard 7th Street Armory, 845 E... more Cactus growing from a heart, Long Beach, 1990, California national Guard 7th Street Armory, 845 East 7th Street (near Alamitos Avenue). The mural shows a cactus growing from a heart and reaching toward the sky, by Celia Ko and Alessandra Moctezuma. Just around the corner of the wall is a bigger mural called "Oil, life and ecology" by Eva Cockcroft -- Dunitz, Street gallery, rev. 2nd ed., p. 1260, #35.
“That Moment Now” - Art Exhibition by Lingnan University Artist-in-Residence Celia Ko
Lingnan Un... more “That Moment Now” - Art Exhibition by Lingnan University Artist-in-Residence Celia Ko
Lingnan University (the University) will host an art exhibition of Ms Celia Ko, its artist-in-residence in 2008, from 22 February to 21 March 2009 at the university’s library.
The exhibition is titled “That Moment Now” because Ko thinks that time is a constant flow of moments that connects the past, present and future. The exhibition will showcase over two dozen of her works including 6 “dark paintings” and 2 large portraits, and her distinctive media-art objects which nick-named “wearables”.
“My inspiration comes from my grandmother’s story telling while I was a child: my personal memory fills with vivid images that some how connects with my feelings for old lacquer artifacts: they feel both far (being used by older generations through out Chinese history) and close (they were still my household utensils when I was little). Large paintings of my maternal grandparents bring me back in time, reconnecting myself to my grandparents as younger people of my age and re-establishing a relationship with, or provoking a reflection on that particular “life” moment lost in the past,” said Ko.
Paintings
Ko deepens her close investigation of her personal connection with family is expressed through 2 larger than life paintings of her grandparents that show them both in their younger stage in life, and in a series of “dark paintings” that consist of antique Chinese lacquer vessels, metaphors for the family stories she remembers listening to generations of elders: dark but vivid, distant but intimate, images flickering in the mind, from the past and in the present
Wearables
These are Ko's creation of jewel-like, mixed-media art objects which started years ago and are being shown in Hong Kong for the first time. These objects reflect her journey into exploring her family history in Hong Kong and China in the late Qing period to early 20th Century, loaded with meaning related to family history, folk stories and anecdotes that are both suggestive and humorous.
The party at Lan-T'ing, 1991. Los Angeles Public Library, Chinatown branch, exterior, 850 Yal... more The party at Lan-T'ing, 1991. Los Angeles Public Library, Chinatown branch, exterior, 850 Yale Street (mural on College St.), Chinatown. Chinese achievements in music, literature, and art are shown in the context of a party of important artists organized by the great Chinese calligrapher and poet, Wang Xi-Zhi, approximately 1700 years ago. A scroll documenting the event that Wang created after the party became an important part of Chinese art history. While there are many replicas throughout China, the original scroll is believed buried in the tomb of an emperor of the Tang dynasty. The artist's use of non-paint materials and his layering of colors are both techniques from traditional lacquer painting. Acrylic, glitter, sequins, eggshells, and pieces of costume jewelry, 17' x 40', by Shiyan Zhang, assisted by Celia Ko, DeQing Wang, Jack Wu II, and Anthony Mendoza. Sponsored by Social and Public Art Resource Center. -- Dunitz, Street gallery, rev. 2nd ed., p. 54, #83.
Parks and Recreation Department, Long Beach, USA, 1990
Cactus growing from a heart, Long Beach, 1990, California national Guard 7th Street Armory, 845 E... more Cactus growing from a heart, Long Beach, 1990, California national Guard 7th Street Armory, 845 East 7th Street (near Alamitos Avenue). The mural shows a cactus growing from a heart and reaching toward the sky, by Celia Ko and Alessandra Moctezuma. Just around the corner of the wall is a bigger mural called "Oil, life and ecology" by Eva Cockcroft -- Dunitz, Street gallery, rev. 2nd ed., p. 1260, #35.
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Lingnan University (the University) will host an art exhibition of Ms Celia Ko, its artist-in-residence in 2008, from 22 February to 21 March 2009 at the university’s library.
The exhibition is titled “That Moment Now” because Ko thinks that time is a constant flow of moments that connects the past, present and future. The exhibition will showcase over two dozen of her works including 6 “dark paintings” and 2 large portraits, and her distinctive media-art objects which nick-named “wearables”.
“My inspiration comes from my grandmother’s story telling while I was a child: my personal memory fills with vivid images that some how connects with my feelings for old lacquer artifacts: they feel both far (being used by older generations through out Chinese history) and close (they were still my household utensils when I was little). Large paintings of my maternal grandparents bring me back in time, reconnecting myself to my grandparents as younger people of my age and re-establishing a relationship with, or provoking a reflection on that particular “life” moment lost in the past,” said Ko.
Paintings
Ko deepens her close investigation of her personal connection with family is expressed through 2 larger than life paintings of her grandparents that show them both in their younger stage in life, and in a series of “dark paintings” that consist of antique Chinese lacquer vessels, metaphors for the family stories she remembers listening to generations of elders: dark but vivid, distant but intimate, images flickering in the mind, from the past and in the present
Wearables
These are Ko's creation of jewel-like, mixed-media art objects which started years ago and are being shown in Hong Kong for the first time. These objects reflect her journey into exploring her family history in Hong Kong and China in the late Qing period to early 20th Century, loaded with meaning related to family history, folk stories and anecdotes that are both suggestive and humorous.
Lingnan University (the University) will host an art exhibition of Ms Celia Ko, its artist-in-residence in 2008, from 22 February to 21 March 2009 at the university’s library.
The exhibition is titled “That Moment Now” because Ko thinks that time is a constant flow of moments that connects the past, present and future. The exhibition will showcase over two dozen of her works including 6 “dark paintings” and 2 large portraits, and her distinctive media-art objects which nick-named “wearables”.
“My inspiration comes from my grandmother’s story telling while I was a child: my personal memory fills with vivid images that some how connects with my feelings for old lacquer artifacts: they feel both far (being used by older generations through out Chinese history) and close (they were still my household utensils when I was little). Large paintings of my maternal grandparents bring me back in time, reconnecting myself to my grandparents as younger people of my age and re-establishing a relationship with, or provoking a reflection on that particular “life” moment lost in the past,” said Ko.
Paintings
Ko deepens her close investigation of her personal connection with family is expressed through 2 larger than life paintings of her grandparents that show them both in their younger stage in life, and in a series of “dark paintings” that consist of antique Chinese lacquer vessels, metaphors for the family stories she remembers listening to generations of elders: dark but vivid, distant but intimate, images flickering in the mind, from the past and in the present
Wearables
These are Ko's creation of jewel-like, mixed-media art objects which started years ago and are being shown in Hong Kong for the first time. These objects reflect her journey into exploring her family history in Hong Kong and China in the late Qing period to early 20th Century, loaded with meaning related to family history, folk stories and anecdotes that are both suggestive and humorous.