The Macro-Micro Universe

 

Amy Cheng, born in 1956 in Taiwan, is a Chinese-American contemporary painter and public art artist who resides and works in New York City. Cheng invents a visual vocabulary to imaginatively, poetically, metaphorically create dynamic, dramatic scenarios in her macro/micro-themed paintings that explore astrophysical and quantum physical phenomena. Her gouache paintings present complex, layered compositions of matter and energy in a state of constant flux. Her vividly colored, subtly textured paintings evoke a feeling of surprise, mystery, and delight that reflect Cheng’s preoccupation with the mystery and existence of consciousness. Some physicists are exploring the possibility that consciousness is fundamental to the universe, pervasive and constant.

 

 

 

The Mandala Series

 

Sumptuous, intricate, ornamented, Amy Cheng’s Mandala oil paintings are richly referential — they call to mind a range of associations from mandalas, the cosmos, cells, lace, brocade and more. Cheng, born in 1956 in Taiwan, is a Chinese-American contemporary painter and public art artist who resides and works in New York City. Cheng feels aligned with the long history of geometric and floral ornamentation Far Eastern, Middle Eastern, and European craftsmen have long employed. They did so with the implicit understanding that pattern and repetition, which are endemic in nature, are primal in their rhythmic connection to the human nervous system. Cheng identifies the Mandala paintings with the long historical tradition of visual artists interested in notions of cosmology. She is, as the artist Thomas Lyon Mills says, painting worlds within worlds with the aim of revealing profound, contemplative, slow truths.