Pure Days: Art & Life
[ 26.05 – 26.07 / 2016 ]
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We’re making milestones this year with back-to-back group exhibitions – this time with 3 artists, Alessia Levonique, Liu Ling and Tracy Tan from Art Is Gallery & Artist Studio! Titled ‘Pure Days: Art & Life’, this is also their first group exhibition together, featuring a collection of oil paintings, charcoal & pen drawings and photographs. The artists have drawn inspiration from nature and endeavoured to understand and represent beauty in the most ordinary of things. It is hoped that viewers can also discover beauty in simplicity as they encounter the art pieces, and be transported to the state of peace and tranquility that they were in as it was being created.
Through dye sublimation, Tracy’s photographs were infused into a specially coated surface (ChromaLuxe) to achieve intensely sharp colour and clarity, so much so each frame seems to transport viewers to the streets and landscapes where the stills were taken.
Tracy intends for her photographs to exemplify the hope and beauty of the world. By exploring the motion of stillness, she wishes for each frame to transport viewers to the streets and landscapes where the stills were taken. While she draws and paints as an emotional outlet, photography allows her instincts to take over and for art to manifest in its rawest form.
When did you graduate from NUS and when did you realise that you had an artistic inclination?
I graduated from NUS with a Masters in Architecture in 2013. I wouldn’t say I drew frequently when I was a kid but I doodled a lot since I was in secondary school. Different from most of my peers in Architecture school, I did not take up Art as my A-levels subject; I took Higher Chinese instead. Ha!
Before I enrolled into Architecture school, I actually considered doing Fashion or Graphic Design. While I didn’t become a Fashion designer in the end, I’m really glad how things turned out now because the design principles I learnt in Architecture are unparalleled and can complement my other pursuits.
Tracy Tan
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