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laMPo leong
lives and works in Columbia, Missouri, USA
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In my latest series, Contemplation • Forces, I have evolved a visual space seething magma, glaciations or solar flares. At other times they might
that incorporates the rhythm of cursive calligraphy with an approach seem metaphoric of invisible dramas-cosmic or spiritual crises, powerful
to color reminiscent of the symphonic effects achieved by Abstract emotions recollected in moments of serenity. As for me, the inky blacks
Expressionism. While I continue to pay homage to the spontaneity and of figural marks playing against fields of colored densities and radiant lights
power of the calligraphic stroke, in these paintings, I literally shatter the speak of my own fascination with the processes of creation. reflecting
written word, layering, overlapping, and fading the mutable fragments both a reverence for the spirit of Daoism and an ever-renewed wonder at
in and out of dynamically shifting planes of meditative or molten hues. the universe revealed to us by modern science, my paintings celebrate the
These images might at times remind the viewer of elemental forces- dynamic energies that give birth to new life, new planets, and new stars.
tHe sUrreaL reVoLUtion i, 2010 ACrylIC AND MIxED MEDIA ON CANvAS 46x70 IN. / 117CM x178 CM.
* lAMPO lEONg, PH.D., IS AN ArT PrOFESSOr AT THE UNIvErSITy OF MISSOUrI-COlUMbIA USA
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