The Jung Center presents "Mind is Universe," the debut solo exhibition of photography-based artist Cindy Shung (curated by Cindy Lisica).
The simultaneously exquisite and complex mixed-media and photographic artwork in "Mind is Universe" begins within the microcosm of the private garden and extends outward into the larger world. For her latest photography and watercolor series, Coming Home, the artist layers her sometimes haunting, soulful images onto Mulberry paper from Taiwan and Thailand and custom-mounts them into birchwood frames.
Shung presents her subjects as fictitious interpretations borne out of a boundless imagination and fed by memories, skewed and blurred by time and distance but deeply embedded within the subconscious. She uses materials that reflect her experiences and observations of nature, from wind and light against glass to the wrinkles in handmade paper mimicking that of rose petals.
After returning from worldly travels to her own backyard, Shung says that “reality wilts under the macro-lens.” Through the artworks in "Mind is Universe," she asks, “What is IMAGINATION? What is MAKE-BELIEVE? And what is TRUTH?” and concludes that, in our world, “TRUTH is only what one chooses to believe.”
Following the opening reception, the exhibit will be on display until November 7.
The Jung Center presents "Mind is Universe," the debut solo exhibition of photography-based artist Cindy Shung (curated by Cindy Lisica).
The simultaneously exquisite and complex mixed-media and photographic artwork in "Mind is Universe" begins within the microcosm of the private garden and extends outward into the larger world. For her latest photography and watercolor series, Coming Home, the artist layers her sometimes haunting, soulful images onto Mulberry paper from Taiwan and Thailand and custom-mounts them into birchwood frames.
Shung presents her subjects as fictitious interpretations borne out of a boundless imagination and fed by memories, skewed and blurred by time and distance but deeply embedded within the subconscious. She uses materials that reflect her experiences and observations of nature, from wind and light against glass to the wrinkles in handmade paper mimicking that of rose petals.
After returning from worldly travels to her own backyard, Shung says that “reality wilts under the macro-lens.” Through the artworks in "Mind is Universe," she asks, “What is IMAGINATION? What is MAKE-BELIEVE? And what is TRUTH?” and concludes that, in our world, “TRUTH is only what one chooses to believe.”
Following the opening reception, the exhibit will be on display until November 7.
The Jung Center presents "Mind is Universe," the debut solo exhibition of photography-based artist Cindy Shung (curated by Cindy Lisica).
The simultaneously exquisite and complex mixed-media and photographic artwork in "Mind is Universe" begins within the microcosm of the private garden and extends outward into the larger world. For her latest photography and watercolor series, Coming Home, the artist layers her sometimes haunting, soulful images onto Mulberry paper from Taiwan and Thailand and custom-mounts them into birchwood frames.
Shung presents her subjects as fictitious interpretations borne out of a boundless imagination and fed by memories, skewed and blurred by time and distance but deeply embedded within the subconscious. She uses materials that reflect her experiences and observations of nature, from wind and light against glass to the wrinkles in handmade paper mimicking that of rose petals.
After returning from worldly travels to her own backyard, Shung says that “reality wilts under the macro-lens.” Through the artworks in "Mind is Universe," she asks, “What is IMAGINATION? What is MAKE-BELIEVE? And what is TRUTH?” and concludes that, in our world, “TRUTH is only what one chooses to believe.”
Following the opening reception, the exhibit will be on display until November 7.