Present Tense series - art review
September 19, 2024
Mr. Richard Chow has hit it out of the park at SubTerra Gallery. In a further creative extension for fine art photography, with the inventive foreplay of ultraviolet sunbathing to magically enchant the silverscreen of archival pigment from a sturdier age, in a time that relished the timeless, the fine artist has typified his true merit of knowing true beauty.
Crystal 1. Richard Chow. Silver gelatin print. 11×14″. Courtesy the artist and SubTerra Gallery. All Rights Reserved
Virus. Richard Chow. Silver gelatin print. 16″x20″. Courtesy the artist and Subterranean Gallery. All Rights Reserved.
"It is in the choices of prints brought to bear in public. To be qualified, yes this is beautiful. It is in the self-reliance and therefore truer knowingness of original in creative acting in Nature making for such an exciting menagerie of truer experiences of form. Shape that is more than naturally, but physically transducted; not coerced or forced but harmoniously willed by the free spirit, that makes the mind’s memory flutter aflux with new light perceived."
-George Berkeley
And what a glorious dream to find enchanting the world. With more ardor. In the past, Mr. Chow has worked with minutia in his dazzling cosmic kinectivity; Starry Night is that memorable example of a likeness to the original; through his now larger size in photographic composition with Smoked – Present Tense, the artist is moving with a daring confidence that elates with a silent-screaming joy.
Smoked. Richard Chow. Scanned silver gelatin print. 30″x40″. Courtesy of the artist and SubTerra Gallery. All Rights Reserved.
A joy for more balance.
A focus.
Clearness in the center and its certain knowing there is.
In a room which draws the mind’s attention span, unto a more necessary relation of relaxing one’s anxieties about the stresses of life, this is a perfect fit.
For more information, please contact the gallery:
LA Makery
260 S. Los Angeles St.
Los Angeles, CA 90012
213-392-2611
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