• Adell McMillan Gallery | EMU Second Floor
• November 10, 2008 - December 13, 2008
• 8:29am

Abstract Expressionist Exhibit: Opening Reception Nov 20 at 5 pm

The Cultural Forum proudly presents the work of artist Chang-Ae Song, M.F.A. Graduate from the University of Oregon. Mass Landscape, features abstract expressionist work that explores human nature and the human condition in relation to our current cultural, social, ethical, and political situations, and uses multiple images of human figures to form landscapes.

Artist Chang-Ae Song, born in Seoul, Korea has been living and working in Oregon for the past 9 years. She enrolled at the University of Oregon, aiming for and receiving her second M.F.A. in painting she will also be showing in the 9th Northwest Biennial at the Tacoma Art Museum in Tacoma, Washington. Prior to Song’s move to the Pacific Northwest, she earned her first M.F.A. in Korean Painting at Sookmyung Women’s University. Song employed strategies of dual perspectives and scale creating a panoramic view on a number of her larger pieces. These pieces along with the smaller works are quite atmospheric and conjure up feelings of a dark day, but upon observation of these pieces, unexpected human images challenge the viewer with details of fragmented human bodies, entangling, wrestling, climbing, mixing, creating a far more complex and ambiguous image. Song’s original source of the figures incorporated into these landscapes came from online newspaper photos of the Abu Ghraib detainees. Chang-Ae has been able to take these images and turn them into wonderfully exciting pieces that will affect each viewer differently.