G. Roger Denson
Cultural critic and essayist published with Parkett and Art in Americahttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/g-roger-denson/emily-cheng-faith-science_b_891470.htmlNew York artist Emily Cheng attempts to reconcile the traditionally oppositional modes of science and faith in two concurrent solo exhibitions of conceptual paintings and drawings. At The Museum of Contemporary Art in Taipei, Cheng presents
Charting Sacred Territories: Holy Morphosis, June 17 through July 17. Meanwhile, at Hong Kong's
Hanart TZ Gallery, Cheng has installed
Meanders and Morphosis: Charting the Nature of Interior Spaces, on view July 7 through 30.
It's not at all certain whether Cheng has succeeded in her attempts to reconcile the wisdoms of religion and spiritualism with the knowledge of anthropological science and rationalism she uses to chart their relationships. Just as daunting is judging whether Cheng's paintings and drawings successfully conflate the artistic conceptualism that informs her work with the vibrantly painted forms through which her conceptualism is realized. ...
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