Tag: painting
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Exhibition: Now & Then
I will be showing some paintings and new drawings in a group exhibition at Pendulum Gallery in Vancouver. Now & Then revisits some of the highlights of Pendulum Gallery exhibitions from the past decade, marking a point at which then becomes the now and acknowledging the intersection between the gallery and a select number of intriguing artists: Roselina Hung, Ross…
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Press: Ricepaper Magazine
My painting, Liger, Liger (Chimera), from my recent exhibition Of Myth and Men, is featured on the cover of Ricepaper magazine. Ricepaper magazine is a Canadian magazine which has showcased Asian Canadian literature, culture, and the arts since 1994. Ricepaper is a quarterly magazine that is distributed coast-to-coast, publishing the new voices coming out of the Asian Canadian arts and literary community. Ricepaper continues to be the…
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Solo Exhibition: Of Myth and Men
Initial Gallery is pleased to present Of Myth and Men featuring recent oil paintings by Vancouver-based artist Roselina Hung. Combining art-historical and well-known mythological motifs with self-reflective imagery Hung’s fantastical oil paintings toy with modern myth-making. The artist, herself often portrayed in obvious disguise, interacts with characters and symbols pulled from mythological story lines and…
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Press: The Georgia Straight
My upcoming solo exhibition Of Myth and Men, at Initial Gallery, has been mentioned in the June 12, 2014 edition of The Georgia Straight. Highlighted in the Arts section as a must-see event in the Summer in the City issue, Janet Smith writes, “We can’t wait to see rising Vancouver painter Roselina Hung’s Of Myth and Men show at the…
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Press: Inside Vancouver
Inside Vancouver’s Shawn Conner has written about my exhibition Of Myth and Men, which opens next Thursday, June 19th, at Initial Gallery. Conner writes, “For her new series Of Myth and Men, [Roselina Hung] draws on her own personal history by inserting herself into scenes evoking Greek myth and even the Old Testament. Joining Hung in the paintings are other…
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Of Myth and Men
Of Myth and Men is both a visually and thematically collage-like series of oil paintings. I mix art-historical images from Greek and Old Testament myths with romantic, familial and platonic relationships from my own life. I have chosen to work with popular myths that I personally identify with but that have also been repeatedly painted throughout history. A…
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Art Fair: Toronto International Art Fair 2013
I will be showing a small collection of paintings, drawings and sculpture with Wil Aballe Art Projects at this year’s Toronto International Art Fair. Founded in 2000, Art Toronto: Toronto International Art Fair is Canada’s only modern and contemporary fine art fair. Art Toronto will showcase over 110 galleries representing 13 countries. For more information…
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Exhibition: Scenes of Selves, Occasions for Ruses
I will be exhibiting a selection of my self-portrait paintings at the Surrey Art Gallery, as part of a group exhibition. Curated by Jordan Strom, this exhibition will examine self-representation in relations to the idea of the archive at the beginning of the twenty-first century. I will be showing alongside artists Jim Andrews, Eryne Donahue,…
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Exhibition: Scenes of Selves, Occasions for Ruses
I will be exhibiting in the group exhibition at the Surrey Art Gallery this fall. The works in the exhibition examine the relationship between self representation and the archive against a backdrop of early 21st century mainstream self portraiture through systems of social media and new photographic technologies. I will be showing alongside artists including Suzy Lake…