Some of the most highly anticipated exhibits at this month’s Singapore Art Week hail from female artists, another shining example of the nation’s push for more art appreciation and awareness. The event itself will include more than 80 events that celebrate Singapore’s blooming creative scene.
One such artist, Jane Lee, has become one of Singapore’s foremost painters. Her works have all done well at auctions, and have also had reasonable success while being shown abroad. Her successful creative year will be on display for others to enjoy as one of Singapore Art Week’s many solo exhibits. The show will detail artworks she created during a recent residency and will also display evidence of her pushing her own creations out of their comfort zone. While Lee is well known for her paintings, she is experimenting in this show with other mediums, including print, paper, and video — for the first time ever. The show will explore themes of entrapment and freedom using a common motif of birds.
Another artist, Donna Ong, will be putting on a show that explores mankind’s interest in tropical jungles. Her work marries vintage type and prints with her own modern artwork to present ideas both new and familiar at the same time. Ong also had a good year, winning several awards and spending a residency abroad in Europe.
Yet another highly anticipated exhibit will be that of artist Belinda Fox. Her show will pay tribute to her travels throughout the Southeastern Asian region, including Singapore, Vietnam and Myanmar. Fox’s paintings will treat themes that include the destruction and exploitation of nature through modernization and progress, and the subsequent loss of history through that practice.
Still another artist with a leading exhibition is Melissa Tan. Tan’s artwork includes a highly detailed and unique process that involves tracing watercolor creations with iron oxide. The end result is highly complex and multilayered, giving depth to something that would have appeared simple otherwise. Watercolor and iron oxide works are pressed between reflective steel sheets, adding yet another dimension to her otherworldly masterpieces. Tan’s exhibit will display works imagining the formation of asteroids and planets.
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For more on the exhibitions that are a part of Singapore Art Week, go to http://www.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/1303876/girl-power-the-ladies-are-taking-over-singapore-art-week.