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Cloudburst
Chloe Ong, Singapore, 19 February - 6 March 2022

Cloudburst : Chloe Ong

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Cuturi Gallery is proud to present a debut solo exhibition, CLOUDBURST, by Chloe Ong (b.1994, Singapore). A graduate of Slade School of Fine Art, the artist has spent much of her time in London. Ong has since gone to exhibit her works internationally and is currently based in Singapore. CLOUDBURST features a new selection of works that communicates the language of colour and time. 

 

Sensitive to the visual cacophony and energy of places, much of Ong’s work navigates around her admiration for nature combined with personal experiences. She attunes this sensitivity to her creative process and projects these saturated memories onto her canvases. 

 

Building up towards a collision of internal and external elements, Ong’s works begin as a way of working through her inner rumblings. Outward factors - such as the restless churnings of nature in the wind, to the colours of flora and fauna - all act as secondary agents of inspiration for her works. At the heart of Ong’s works is her inquisitive nature of exploring the possibilities of material and colour. This interest taps into her research process to how she can manipulate material to conjure different textures and moods. 

 

Her research interest in material and colour is explored in her initial work, The Cloud and Pigment Series (2020). Inspired by volcanic eruptions, these intimately scaled paintings were completed during a tumultuous period that the artist was going through. Employing oil on arches paper, this series soon became a catalyst for her other works, Memories of the Wind (2021) and Under Pressure (2021).

 

Prompted by emotions to form a narrative in her paintings, each canvas acts as a time capsule from a certain period of her life. As a result of the conjoining of different experiences onto a single canvas, Ong’s works reflect a constant state of migration of feelings. This flux is reminiscent in Seasons Don’t Matter Anymore (2020), where clusters of red hues dominate her canvas. Reflecting on her state of mind, her turbulent motions are felt as we witness heavy brushstrokes converging horizontally against one another. 

 

Ong plays with colour, depth, and texture by using a mixture of materials such as beeswax, oil bar, and turpentine in her paintings. A recurring theme in her works is the use of strokes that extend beyond her canvases, suggesting the commotion of life going on outside of the canvas. Slowly seeing the beauty of spontaneity, the artist is trying to embrace the impulsivity that comes with it. She incorporates this in her works by painting in emphasised gestural movements and flipping her canvases in different directions as she paints. 

 

Tuning into calmer hues and playful undercurrents, Cloudburst (2022) and Into the Blue (2022) brings us into an interplay of abstract and figurative forms where we are introduced to monumental human figures. With rushing rebellious strokes, hazy textured hues, and endless stretches of gradient lines, her paintings oscillate between the yin yang effect of light and dark or the tension and serenity that we go through daily. 

 

In this new series of works, the paintings of Ong’s shift and glint with life as we witness how she utilises the nuances of colour as a medium to envelope us into her world of hope and longing. 

 

CLOUDBURST will be on view at Cuturi Gallery from 19 February to 6 March 2022.

 

Chloe Ong (b. 1994, Singapore) is a graduate of the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London. Her paintings explore natural landscapes and phenomena, featuring an exuberant mix of colours and pigments which dance across the canvas to capture the rhythmic movement and energy of nature. Her works deal with dichotomies, straddling the line between abstraction and figuration, east and west, void and form. Chloe has lived and worked across London, New York, Japan and Singapore. She has also received the Lynn Painter-Stainers Young Artist Award in the UK and the United Overseas Bank Painting of the Year Platinum Award in Southeast Asia.

 

Text by Allysa De Silva.

 

Exhibition Catalogue

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Works
  • Chloe Ong, Under Pressure, 2021
    Chloe Ong, Under Pressure, 2021
  • Chloe Ong, Just Your Imagination of The Utopian World, 2021
    Chloe Ong, Just Your Imagination of The Utopian World, 2021
  • Chloe Ong, Dancing Under the Midsummer Wave, 2021
    Chloe Ong, Dancing Under the Midsummer Wave, 2021
  • Chloe Ong, Memories Of The Wind, 2021
    Chloe Ong, Memories Of The Wind, 2021
  • Chloe Ong, Seasons Don't Matter Anymore, 2020
    Chloe Ong, Seasons Don't Matter Anymore, 2020
  • Chloe Ong, After Afterparty, 2021
    Chloe Ong, After Afterparty, 2021
  • Chloe Ong, November Ginkgo, 2021
    Chloe Ong, November Ginkgo, 2021
  • Chloe Ong, Wildest Dreams, Deepest Seas, 2021
    Chloe Ong, Wildest Dreams, Deepest Seas, 2021
  • Chloe Ong, Summertime Rendezvous , 2021
    Chloe Ong, Summertime Rendezvous , 2021
  • Chloe Ong, Sunset Deep Sea Dive, 2021
    Chloe Ong, Sunset Deep Sea Dive, 2021
  • Chloe Ong, C220, 2020
    Chloe Ong, C220, 2020
  • Chloe Ong, C370, 2020
    Chloe Ong, C370, 2020
  • Chloe Ong, C390, 2020
    Chloe Ong, C390, 2020
  • Chloe Ong, C770, 2020
    Chloe Ong, C770, 2020
  • Chloe Ong, Cannonball Tree, 2021
    Chloe Ong, Cannonball Tree, 2021
  • Chloe Ong, Cloudburst, 2022
    Chloe Ong, Cloudburst, 2022
  • Chloe Ong, Into the Blue, 2022
    Chloe Ong, Into the Blue, 2022
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  • Arts Picks: Htein Lin's art that hurts, Singapore Ballet is on point, Chloe Ong makes an impression

    Arthur Sim, The Straits Times, February 24, 2022

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