Shuling Guo: 5—6 pm
Aug. 1—Oct. 4, 2020
Opening House: Aug. 1& 2, 11 am–8 pm, by appointment
Curator: Lynn Hai
Fou Gallery is delighted to announce that the first show since COVID-19 – Shuling Guo’s solo exhibition 5–6 pm – will be held from August 1st to October 4th. The title comes from her oil painting series 5–6 pm, which will be presented together with her Skin series in this exhibition.
5–6 pm series is Guo’s depiction of a number of vivid evenings in her memory. Sunset emanates a dazzling glow and casts a rich spectrum over the sky, the sea, and a corner of a wall. There are almost no concrete figures in Guo’s framing, but only empty scenes with mere light and colors that spread their fluctuations onto the painting surface. Skin series portrays the impressions of light being softly refracted when it penetrates petals and leaves. By magnifying commonly-overlooked details, images of objects are decontexted and thus become abstract. Colors in the paintings present similar lightness and clarity, yet subtly shift between warm and cool hues. The emphasized appeal of generic things sparkles the audience’s interest to observe life from unexpected perspectives. Every year Guo spends a lot of time living on a sailboat and paints all by herself. Being far away from the hustle and bustle, she is able to reflect and meditate thoroughly on her inner spirit, naturally fertilizing her life and creation with growing authenticity as time goes by.
News and Reviews
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Exhibition Catalogue
Design: Yue Liu | Essay: Lynn Hai
Events
Shuling Guo in front of her work <5—6 pm>-22 (2020). Photograph by Selkie
Artist - Shuling Guo 郭淑玲 (b. 1986, Guangdong Province, China)
Graduated from the Oil Painting Department of Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing (B.F.A.) in 2010. She immigrated to the United States in 2019, and now lives part time in Philadelphia and part time traveling on the Sailing Vessel Selkie. In 2012, she had her first solo exhibition Secret Fragrance in Beyond Art Space in Beijing. Since then, her work has been widely exhibited in Beijing, Los Angeles, Philadelphia and among other places. Her works have been included in the permanent collections of Central Academy of Fine Arts Art Museum (Beijing) and Art Museum of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts (Guangzhou). In August 2020 she has her first solo exhibition in New York at Fou Gallery: 5—6 pm.