{"id":2901,"date":"2015-09-02T11:53:37","date_gmt":"2015-09-02T18:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/roselinahung.com\/blog\/?p=2901"},"modified":"2024-03-19T00:17:31","modified_gmt":"2024-03-19T07:17:31","slug":"summer-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/roselinahung.com\/blog\/summer-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Review"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The famous pink Ojai sunset<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

It’s been a quiet few months on my blog, but things have been busy this summer. Between exhibitions in Vancouver and Edmonton, there\u00a0have\u00a0been travels as well as dressmaking and a wedding! I’ve just recently started a new painting in the studio, and with the sudden change in weather here in Vancouver, I’m reminded of that back to school feeling. So\u00a0I guess you can kind of think of this blog post as my first day back to school, and here’s what I did this summer.<\/p>\n

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Now & Then – Pendulum Gallery, Vancouver<\/p>\n

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The new Pendulum Gallery set up<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The group exhibition, Now &\u00a0Then<\/em>, at Pendulum Gallery was well received, with their new gallery walls and light system in place. It’s a great place to show work as I think it receives more foot traffic than many galleries I’ve shown at, and the more eyes, the better.<\/p>\n

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My wall of drawings and paintings<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A different view<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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My Rejected Memories drawings shown in a new more sculptural configuration<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

You can\u00a0read more about the exhibition and gallery space in Vancouver is Awesome here<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n

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A Conversation: With Mary Porter – Latitude 53, Edmonton<\/p>\n

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A Conversation at Latitude 53 (Photo courtesy of Latitude 53)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

For the last year and a half, Mary Porter and I have been collaborating on a project. We’ve known each other for almost 15 years now, meeting when we were both on exchange in Paris. Over those 15 years\u00a0we have perhaps only lived in the same city for 12 months total. But we’ve managed to keep in touch and stay good friends, as well as collaborate on smaller projects on and off over the years. This culminated in our project, A Conversation<\/em>, which we showed this summer at Latitude 53’s ProjEx Room.<\/p>\n

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A Conversation – with Mary Porter (Photo courtesy of Latitude 53)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Working from images found through Google Image Search, Mary and I made digital collages based on our text conversation using the first 20 images for each search. The results were convoluted but patterns emerged\u00a0through common images and text. We showed the images as a video projection on opposite walls in the space, where viewers sat in the middle as we “spoke” to each other\u00a0from either side of the room.<\/p>\n

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Twinned projections in the ProjEx Room (Photo courtesy of Latitude 53)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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A still from A Conversation<\/em> (Photo courtesy of Latitude 53)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A Conversation<\/em> will be showing in December at Truck Gallery’s Window Space in Calgary, Alberta.<\/p>\n

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A Wedding & A Honeymoon<\/p>\n

Last but not least, my fianc\u00e9 and I got married this summer. Early on in the planning stages, I saw a dress I loved but it was from a few years back and impossible to get a hold of, not to mention way out of my budget. Against my better judgment (or despite it!), I decided I was going to make my own wedding gown, even though the last time I sewed a dress was when I was 14 and in Home Ec class. I figured…how hard can it be? It was just another art project to tackle! The thing is, I wanted a simple shaped dress, which I had a hard time finding in shops, but I also wanted flowers on it. So I got down to painting with watercolours, practicing roses in a painting medium that I wasn’t used to. After many botched attempts, I finally worked it out and scanned the image and had it printed onto satin.<\/p>\n

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The watercolour roses printed onto satin<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

From there,\u00a0I made a mock up dress in a cheap fabric using my own pattern that I created by looking at photos online of the original dress I liked and, no joke, Gwyneth Paltrow’s pink dress that she won her Oscar in. I think all my problem solving skills for creating art, from the planning stages to the end results, helped me a lot in trying to figure out my dress.<\/p>\n

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The skirt section half sewn<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"Awkward
Awkward selfies<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Working on my kitchen table at home while trying to keep the dress a secret was hard, and it also meant doing fittings and trying to see what the dress looked like on and from behind meant many awkward selfies in the mirror. In the end, after a couple of fitting hiccups, I finished\u00a0the dress and even made\u00a0it convertible into a shorter party dress for the reception.<\/p>\n

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Photos by Brianne Adams Photography<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Photo by Brianne Adams Photography<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The wedding couldn’t have been more perfect. And after a happily stress-free wedding, my husband and I left for a quick honeymoon in\u00a0California. We spent a few days in Ojai, and all the cacti we saw inspired my new work, which has been commissioned by The New Gallery in Calgary for their fundraiser later this fall.\u00a0The drawing will be made into a silkscreen print.\u00a0I will post more details\u00a0in upcoming months.<\/p>\n

In the meantime, a little sneak peek:<\/p>\n

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Work in progress<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Work in progress<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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