Cindy Shung Exhibition Curated by Cindy Lixica at The Jung Center
The Jung Center is hosting the debut solo exhibition of photography-based artist Cindy Shung (curated by Cindy Lisica). The simultaneously exquisite and complex mixed-media and photographic artwork in Mind is Universe begins within the microcosm of the private garden and extends outward into the larger world. For her latest photography and watercolor series, Coming Home, the artist layers her sometimes haunting, soulful images onto Mulberry paper from Taiwan and Thailand and custom-mounts them into birchwood frames.
Archival pigment print, 12 x 18 inches (18 x 24 framed)
Shung presents her subjects as fictitious interpretations borne out of a boundless imagination and fed by memories, skewed and blurred by time and distance but deeply embedded within the subconscious. She uses materials that reflect her experiences and observations of nature, from wind and light against glass to the wrinkles in handmade paper mimicking that of rose petals. After returning from worldly travels to her own backyard, Shung says that “reality wilts under the macrolens.” Through the artworks in Mind is Universe, she asks, “What is IMAGINATION? What is MAKE-BELIEVE? And what is TRUTH?” and concludes that, in our world, “TRUTH is only what one chooses to believe.”
Originally from Taiwan, Cindy Shung has lived and worked in Houston for over thirty years and calls Texas her home, where her once-hibernating artistic instincts have awakened through explorations of glass, roses, light and space. She has participated in workshops and classes at the Houston Center for Photography, and her works have been selected for juried exhibitions by Alison de Lima Greene (Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston) and Lester Marks (Mayor’s Ambassador to the Arts) for the Visual Arts Alliance. She has won awards and features in Neutral Density Photography, Chromatic, and Don’t Take Pictures.
Dr. Cindy Lisica is an experienced curator, writer, and professor, currently teaching art history at The Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD). She has previously held curatorial and research positions at The Andy Warhol Museum, MOCA Los Angeles, Tate Modern, and the Menil Collection, and has successfully owned and operated two commercial art galleries: Revision Space in Pittsburgh (2014-2016) and Cindy Lisica Gallery in Houston (2015-2019).
Opening reception: Saturday, September 24th, 5-7PM
Exhibition Dates: September 24 – November 7, 2022
The Jung Center
5200 Montrose Blvd. Houston, TX 77006
713.524.8253
junghouston.org/gallery/
Gallery Hours: Mon-Thu 10AM-6PM, Fri 10AM-4PM, Sat 12-4PM