Zhen Guo: Chroma Comes from the Margins features ten recent large-scale ink paintings on rice paper, some with brightly colored stripes in oil pastel, a neon light installation, and a seven-minute film by Chinese feminist artist Zhen Guo. Her newest paintings evolved from a series of black and white, semi-abstract landscapes that Guo titled Muted Landscape, a body of work she began in 2016 that alludes to the marginalization of vulnerable people and places—in this case, women and the environment—and the experience of being silenced and effaced. At the end of 2022, Guo began experimentally inserting bold stripes of color into these monochromatic landscapes, describing the directional shift as a “need for change” and the introduction of a Western modernist element to break with traditional Eastern ink art. The vivid chroma that originates at the paper’s edges intersects and visually disrupts the landscape, which, in turn, suggests the interruption of silence and suppression.
When: September 10, 2023–January 21, 2024
Who: Solo show of artist Zhen Guo; curated by Emily O’Leary.
Derfner Judaica Museum + The Art Collection at Hebrew Home at Riverdale, Riverdale, New York 10471 | 718-581-1596
