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FLAT FILES 2020 Isabel Chun 'Shadow Study #2'
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Isabel Chun 'Shadow Study #2'

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Drawer 1- Shadow study #2, acrylic and colored pencil on paper, 8”x11.5”, 2020

Artist Statement

These recent drawings look to everyday surfaces, such as interior windows, clapboard siding, and bathroom floors. Looking carefully at their patterns, I use drawing to grasp onto their elusive, poetic effects, to reinterpret their physical presence into layers of wash, line, and fill. Woven into the images is my desire to let the traces of process convey meaning. I am attentive to continuity and discontinuity and seek for them to coexist. A wash, with a sense of chance not unlike the sunlight or the wind, may suggest a continuous figure, while a drawn pattern, with a sense of order, might cover it irrespectively or acknowledge it through color or texture of line. In choreographing the layers of my drawings, the different stages of its making, I play with the logics of reality—a cast shadow might slip under a pattern or what’s inside might stitch seamlessly with what’s outside.

Artist Bio

Isabel Chun currently lives and works in Cambridge, MA. Born in Hong Kong, she is currently pursuing a Master in Architecture at Harvard University while maintaining her studio practice. Her work has been exhibited at Opalka Gallery at the Sage Colleges (Albany, NY), Columbia University’s LeRoy Neiman Gallery (New York, NY) and at a two-person show at Kirkland Gallery (Somerville, MA). She was recently published in ArtMaze Magazine, Issue 17. She received a BA from Columbia University, studying both the Visual Arts and the History and Theory of Architecture.

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Drawer 1- Shadow study #2, acrylic and colored pencil on paper, 8”x11.5”, 2020

Artist Statement

These recent drawings look to everyday surfaces, such as interior windows, clapboard siding, and bathroom floors. Looking carefully at their patterns, I use drawing to grasp onto their elusive, poetic effects, to reinterpret their physical presence into layers of wash, line, and fill. Woven into the images is my desire to let the traces of process convey meaning. I am attentive to continuity and discontinuity and seek for them to coexist. A wash, with a sense of chance not unlike the sunlight or the wind, may suggest a continuous figure, while a drawn pattern, with a sense of order, might cover it irrespectively or acknowledge it through color or texture of line. In choreographing the layers of my drawings, the different stages of its making, I play with the logics of reality—a cast shadow might slip under a pattern or what’s inside might stitch seamlessly with what’s outside.

Artist Bio

Isabel Chun currently lives and works in Cambridge, MA. Born in Hong Kong, she is currently pursuing a Master in Architecture at Harvard University while maintaining her studio practice. Her work has been exhibited at Opalka Gallery at the Sage Colleges (Albany, NY), Columbia University’s LeRoy Neiman Gallery (New York, NY) and at a two-person show at Kirkland Gallery (Somerville, MA). She was recently published in ArtMaze Magazine, Issue 17. She received a BA from Columbia University, studying both the Visual Arts and the History and Theory of Architecture.

Drawer 1- Shadow study #2, acrylic and colored pencil on paper, 8”x11.5”, 2020

Artist Statement

These recent drawings look to everyday surfaces, such as interior windows, clapboard siding, and bathroom floors. Looking carefully at their patterns, I use drawing to grasp onto their elusive, poetic effects, to reinterpret their physical presence into layers of wash, line, and fill. Woven into the images is my desire to let the traces of process convey meaning. I am attentive to continuity and discontinuity and seek for them to coexist. A wash, with a sense of chance not unlike the sunlight or the wind, may suggest a continuous figure, while a drawn pattern, with a sense of order, might cover it irrespectively or acknowledge it through color or texture of line. In choreographing the layers of my drawings, the different stages of its making, I play with the logics of reality—a cast shadow might slip under a pattern or what’s inside might stitch seamlessly with what’s outside.

Artist Bio

Isabel Chun currently lives and works in Cambridge, MA. Born in Hong Kong, she is currently pursuing a Master in Architecture at Harvard University while maintaining her studio practice. Her work has been exhibited at Opalka Gallery at the Sage Colleges (Albany, NY), Columbia University’s LeRoy Neiman Gallery (New York, NY) and at a two-person show at Kirkland Gallery (Somerville, MA). She was recently published in ArtMaze Magazine, Issue 17. She received a BA from Columbia University, studying both the Visual Arts and the History and Theory of Architecture.

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