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In a
suite of four oil paintings, David Chow singles out
the branch from a gingko tree, an ordinary, city tree
planted throughout New York. He paints the leaves as
if they are flowers; glorious, sensual, and beautiful.
He hopes that through the paintings, viewers will pause
and experience the joy of walking and observing the
beauty in the ordinary surroundings. By using a limited
palate of thin washes, the action of painting, the gestures
and erasures, are easily evidenced. The performance
of painting, with its changing activity, shifting composition
and line, can be traced on the completed canvas. These
paintings are part of Chow's ongoing study of the gingko.
They were painted with Wave Hill, this space and this
exhibit, in mind.
Chow follows a discipline that alternates between painting
and calligraphy. His luscious oil paintings offer a
view of nature that is both intimate and expansive.
The use of light in his paintings give them extraordinary
movement and life. Chow's work has been exhibited at
the Amy Lipton Gallery in New York, NY, and at the Seomi
Gallery in Seoul, Korea, among others. He teaches at
the School of Visual Arts. He received a BFA and MFA
from California Institute of Arts, Valencia, CA.
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