Today Nina Kuo creates paintings, large drawings and mural landscapes with mutli-symbolic themes and calligraphic shapes while presenting scholar rocks in a surreal manner for emotional appeal. These images provide metaphors for our global bourgeois society and its cultural ambiguity. Computers, make-up rituals, fantasy hairdos and fast foods provide satirical relationships along some figures. These scenarios blend in with our cybernetic frantic world. Symbols include: internet dating, shopaholics, yoga clubs, rock bands which remind us of our love-hate pop cultural aesthetics. For example, in a Ch’ing mountainscape -fried noodles spell out surreal calligraphic forms along with Pop icons as ladies gather for a cosmetics party. These elements are juxtaposed to accompany her investigation into our offbeat world of floating images which is autobiographical and invented.This haven of image-making seduces and bridges many idioms for her. She has executed many paintings, sculptures and video works related to a mythical destiny full of contradictions and surprise.
Artist Web Site http://www.ninakuo.rawcity.net |
Works & History | |
2009 | “Mythical Montage “ Gallery 456, NYC (reviews World Journal,Singtao Daily, NY Artbeat.com) Pierogi Group Show, NYC |
2008 | “All Hot and Bothered” Samuel Dorsky Mus.of Art, New Paltz, NY Permanent collection Bowery Poetry Project, Intro-Bob Holman |
2007 | Asian Contemporary Art Fair, NYC- see catalog, www.Artzinechina.com Solo Exhibit- Cheryl McGinnis Gallery, NYC, catalog intro Eleanor Heartney (Art in America - review by J. Goodman) Asian Contemp. Art Fair, NYC |
2006 | Flushing Town Hall, NYC Scope Art Fair, NYC |