Trina Poon's first solo painting exhibition CITY LIGHTS
Thursday 16th Oct 2003 7.30 pm
Utterly Art Exhibition Space
208 South Bridge Road 2nd Level, Singapore 058757
Tel: 6226 2605 E-mail: utterlyart@pacific.net.sg
Mon-Sat 11.30 am - 8 pm Sun 12 noon - 5.30 pm
The exhibition runs till Sunday 26th Oct 2003.
Upon his migration to New York, the Dutch artist Piet Mondrian was inspired to
paint Broadway Boogie Woogie (1943), a piece which while keeping to his severe
aesthetic of intersecting straight lines and limited colour palette, was
nevertheless alive with the vibrancy of his new adopted city as his once uniform
bars of colour were broken into several multicoloured segments. Sixty years
later, one could imagine young Singaporean artist Trina Poon to have taken
flight with Mondrian’s preliminary ideas. She presents a portrait of a city
breathtakingly complex in its conception and execution, comprising literally
hundreds of fragmented colour cells in a starburst of exuberance. The bejeweled
brilliance of her painted surfaces never lets the eye rest as it flits from
colour block to grid to diagonals to stripes. As the consummate metropolitan,
Trina distills the essence of the buzz of her city living in canvases of vibrant
colour and energy. Her paintings virtually twinkle with the shiny brilliance and
showy lights of her busy home.
Preview Trina's work now at the preview of ARTSingapore, now on at the Ground
Floor Lobby, Singapore Tourism Board, Tourism Court, 1 Orchard Spring Lane till
MONDAY 13TH OCTOBER, 10am to 7pm.