Paintings

New Work 2018

NEW WORKS FROM GROUP SHOW

Featuring Liyen Chong, Emily Wolfe, Liz Maw & Yvonne Todd at Melanie Roger Gallery, Auckland

July 2018

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A family of Swans enjoy themselves by the water-side. The young Swans or “Cygnets,” seem to prefer the water.
In Deer Park, Wanganui, the deer are tame
Serial Killer in Cerulean Blue
Cadmium Yellow Light
Serial Killer in Dioxazine Violet

To enquire about these works, please go to Melanie Roger Gallery (opens link in a new tab/window)
From gallery press release: Houston-based LIYEN CHONG’s new work shows a significant and exciting stylistic shift in the artist’s practice while still continuing her exploration into colour, now in the medium of painting. Imagery and captions are sourced from a children’s encyclopedia published in the UK in the 1950s that she came across several years ago. In these paintings, she says, “I’m separating image from naturalistic colour as a way of protesting the visual world and proposing a different kind of perception, one that is mediated by colour.” Included in this show is a series of paintings of a tigrillo (a.k.a. tiger cat) in different colors. “By painting the original image in an upside down orientation, I’m forcing myself to respond to the formal qualities and practicing a certain kind of abstraction, skimming the line between formalism and conceptualism.” It also coincides with an exhibition of previous work “She watched her wings fly, her mouth shut, her feet run” by Chong at the Wallace Trust Gallery opening 24 July and running till 16 September.
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Practicing Colour

Melanie Roger Gallery, Auckland

October 2015

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To enquire about these works, please go to Melanie Roger Gallery (opens link in a new tab/window)

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The Inside and Outside of Things (I want to know what it is I can’t know) 2015
The Inside and Outside of Things (I want to know what it is I can’t know)
The Inside and Outside of Things (I want to know what it is I can’t know) 2015
The Strangeness of Words (Installation view)
The Strangeness of Words (video) 2015 – *scroll down to the next post for a link to watch this video
Rainbow Colours (Installation view) 2015
Rainbow Colours (Installation view) 2015
Rainbow Colours (Installation view) 2015
11Oct2015: Rainbow Red
8 October 2015: Rainbow Orange
8 October 2015: Rainbow Yellow
8 October 2015: Rainbow Green
11 October 2015: Rainbow Blue
4 October 2015: Rainbow Indigo
4 October 2015: Rainbow Violet

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To watch the video, follow this link to another page on this website.
Images of the opening here. (opens in new tab/window)
Artist talk and marbling demonstration images on a Melanie Roger Gallery Facebook post here.

To listen to a recording of the artist talk, please click here.

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Dreams Circles Moons Fictions1
Published in conjunction with the exhibition Practicing Colour held at Melanie Roger in October 2015.
A conversation with Li-Ming Hu, fellow artist and collaborator on the works presented in this exhibition and Chong’s time at Cemeti Art House in Indonesia as an Asia New Zealand artist-in-residence.
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Teardrops, dingbats and chasing the unknowable - a conversation with Liyen Chong 4.02 MB

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Made with generous support from Asia New Zealand

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Artworks, Other, Residencies, Selected Exhibitions, Video works, Works on Paper

Practicing Colour

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Dreams Moons Circles Fictions

(and fragments found on the forest floor of disquietude)

A Solo Survey Show (2003-2014)

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Papakura Art Gallery, Auckland, February 2014

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A selection of works included in this solo survey show:

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Untitled (Exportware)
Moon Bowl II
Monday
Body without Organs
Contemplating difference
Icons for observing points of the mind
Disappearance scheduled for Friday
She thought she was in a play when the whole scene had to be repeated again
You would, wouldn’t you? (For Ms AJ who remembers every minute of her life)
Hero
Familiar Spirit of The Cold Blooded Eater
Optimimsical
The economic interpretation of history is for the birds
Following fumbling falling finding fantasticities
They are usually flying.
They are usually wearing white.

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Click here for images of the installation in progress before the show and here for images of the opening on Papakura Art Gallery’s facebook page.
To download the e-books featured in the show, please follow this link for further information.

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Artworks, Ceramics, Hair work, Photography-based work, Selected Exhibitions, Text-based work, Works on Paper

Solo survey show at Papakura Art Gallery

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Resolution

Corban Estate Arts Centre, Auckland, August 2013

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The Pleasantly Unnameable

Oh now, really? Well, so long and thanks for all the fish!
Following fumbling falling finding fantasticities
Bling Master and the Pink Bananas
Demeter’s man disappearing under a fog of spots
Enough with the irrelevant information, the point is now here
If only windows could roll too!

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A cloud to think about.
Conflagration of a bad star releasing energy
A triangulated chain reaction.

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Measured response to: “This little fellow is quite content to be held up for inspection…”
Aye, she’s beautiful, isn’t she? (the Sublime Monster sings the Song of the Universe)
The economic interpretation of history is for the birds

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Artworks, Found images, Selected Exhibitions

Resolution

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Enkyklios

Blue Oyster Art Project Space, Dunedin, February 2013

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Red apples
Green apples
Impossible to depict an intelligible sphere whose centre is everywhere and whose circumference is nowhere
Now they make us plough the ground for sense
“Let us begin time” said the Old Man as he sped from darkness to light (with Age, Fertility, Death and Binary Systems)
Variegated groups of men Painting and metallic leaf on archival inkjet print, framed. 240mm x 639mm x 35mm
Aum, um… Painting and metallic leaf on archival inkjet print, framed. 240mm x 639mm x 35mm
Ellipses elicit eligible elemental themes Painting and metallic leaf on archival inkjet print, framed. 336mm x 476mm x 35mm

They are usually flying.
They are usually wearing white.

Click here for the review on Eyecontact.

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Artworks, Found images, Selected Exhibitions

Enkyklios

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Open Studio 8

National Art Studio, Goyang, South Korea, October 2012

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Residencies, Selected Exhibitions

Goyang Art Studio 2012 September-November

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Invocations

Melanie Roger Gallery, Auckland, April 2012

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Contemplating difference
Icons for observing points of the mind
Feeling ahead – peering into a dark hole
Autonomous Translocation of Forms
Abolishment of Time
Phases of Identification with such things as Nouns
Invocation from where no centre can hold

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Flying Oblique

Flying Oblique, 2012.

Archival inkjet print, edition of 3

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Artworks, Photography-based work, Selected Exhibitions

Invocations

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