The Peony opens February 16, 2022 at TAG Gallery, 5458 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90036. TAG is open 1pm-7pm, Wed-Sun
As a photographer, I use the camera to celebrate my Chinese heritage while breaking with traditional norms of Chinese Art. My background is in Chinese painting and calligraphy but the camera offers a different perspective of viewing the subject. Using a film camera, I experiment more with process leaving my work open to chance. Line, color and perspective become conceptual elements of a formal process.
I look to artists such as Georgia O’Keefe and Diane Arbus for their unique views of seeing the world as well as going outside the traditional norms of being an artist and a woman.
My recent work features the symbolic Chinese flower the Peony, which is known to represent women; their beauty, their elegance, emotion and character. I don’t take traditional shots of flowers, rather I use the large-scale and unique perspective to draw attention to the many layers both physically and metaphorically.
Chung-Ping Cheng photographers to re-introduce aspects of China’s considerable aesthetic heritage within contemporary photography.
Cheng's work was included most recently in LA Art Show, presented by Los Angeles Art Association, and also in solo exhibition at the 1839 Contemporary Gallery in Taiwan, and Shoebox Projects in Los Angeles.
About the Gallery: TAG is a fine art gallery located on Museum Row in Los Angeles, California. Founded in 1993, the gallery represents award-winning contemporary Southern California artists working in all mediums and styles.