The contemporary video art program at the Seattle Asian Art Museum continues with the presentation of Sio Ieng (Cindy) Ng’s installation Ink in Motion: the Art of Sio Ieng Ng, opening August 9, 2007.
For centuries artists expressed their feelings and visions through their brushwork and inkplay. In the works by Sio Ieng (Cindy) Ng, ink no longer remains the passive medium for the artist. The routine of washing brushes became an illuminating moment when she observed the beauty of ink draining into the sink. It was the desire to capture ink in motion that inspired her No Limit video series, in which ink is given a life of its own, unrestrained by the brush.
Through its pulsating flow and mixing with water that alters its tonality, forms and patterns emerge from the formlessness of ink. Those forms are captured in photographs and works on paper and canvases, which will be installed on August 9 in the gallery with the video.
Sio Ieng (Cindy) Ng was born in Macau in 1966. Around 1990 she studied etching for a few years at the Slade School of Fine Arts at London University. While in London she also studied at the Research Office of the Gallery of Chinese Calligraphy and Painting at the British Museum. She has won several awards including the best printmaking prize from the Academy of Visual Arts of Macau in 1992, and the Honor Prize of Western Painting from the 3rd Biennial Art of Macau in 1997. Her work has been shown in the Today Art Museum in Beijing, Taipei Fine Art Museum and the Dadao Museum, Taiwan, and the Orient Foundation Gallery in Macau. Cindy currently resides in Taiwan.
Generous in-kind support for this exhibition was provided by Banco Nacional Ultramarino, Fundação Macau, Instituto Cultural do Governo, Cable Eight, and Dragon Foundation with Love.
The exhibition will run through December 2, 2007. -- www.seattleartmuseum.org
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