The artwork features an abstract landscape composition with a harmonious blend of earthy tones. The central panel showcases an undulating panorama of muted greens, browns, and blues, evoking a tranquil natural setting. The artist employs a minimalist approach, using textured brushstrokes and a subdued palette to create a contemplative and atmospheric visual experience. This piece likely explores the artist's interpretation of the natural world and their desire to capture the essence of the landscape through a simplified, meditative aesthetic. ...
Taiwanese-American artist Brook Hsu grew up in Oklahoma, received her BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute in 2010 and her MFA from Yale University in 2016, and is presently based in New York. She is known for interweaving the fantastical, the mythopoetic and the autobiographical through an array of mediums, creating a distinct species of apparitional, haunting imagery. Working across painting, drawing, sculpture, writing and felt making, Hsu produces abstract and figurative works that employ a host of pagan signs and motifs, most notably the demigod of Pan, recounting stories of love, pain and humour. Her art, which focuses on examining pre-Christian myths, histories, modern literature, films and personal histories is at once psychedelic and tranquil, revealing the ways in which existing narratives can induce fear, anxiety, joy and sadness in the contemporary time. Depicting voluptuous, emaciated, demonic, satyric bodies, fashioning shroud-like, torn and ephemeral clothing, or reanimating memories of her beloved dog in the form of a clay boot, Hsu masterfully associates disparate themes and subjects, revisits forsaken icons, and invents new forms. ...
