24 x 33 cm | 9 x 12 in
Subject: Animals
Tags:
Floating,
Translucent,
Vulnerable,
Space,
Sea Creatures
Original painting in mixed media on paper on panel.
You know those phrases like - can’t see the wood for the trees..? About how proximity distorts perception? With Luo-Han Chen.. the concept almost feels inverted.
From a distance Luo-Han’s paintings read as suspended atmosphere. Muted indigo, ash, bruised violet - it’s a kind of cosmic weather. Her work grows from a state of inner contradiction - the body minuscule, yet perception boundless.
Fractals, Fibonacci, sacred geometry - up close we find constellations and patterns stitched with almost-invisible linear tracings. Points of structural light, mapping connection points and creating near invisible underlying systems.
It’s an amazing achievement to collapse distance in paint and hold the scale shift like this - at one register we find the astronomical - nebulae, dark matter, star charts and at another the cellular - spores, pollen, mineral bloom, microscopic life. The macro and micro occupy the same plane - where the universe behaves like lichen and lichen behaves like the universe.
I haven’t seen work like it. Luo-Han graduated in 2023, she held her first solo show last year. This is a remarkable emerging artist with a truly unique vision. Works are currently available from three figures - a compelling entry point for collectors engaging early with a distinctive emerging voice.