Last week I attended the opening of SunTek Chung's new solo show at Collette Blanchard. The work is thought provoking and beautiful and the event was a blast as usual. Below I have posted a few photos from the event as well as the official press blurb on the show. Check out the images and exhibit release and then make some time to get down and check out the show for yourself. Collette operates a wonderful space and one of the few African-American owned contemporary art galleries in the country and it's first class!

SunTek Chung
Kingdom Come
18 November - 10 January, 20, 2010

Collette Blanchard Gallery is pleased to present its first gallery exhibition with SunTek Chung, entitled "Kindom Come," on view from November 18, through January 20, 2010.

Neon light sculpture and staged photographs appear with bronze sculptures, all of which, in the specificity of their presentation, are informed and re-contextualized by circumstances dictated by the artist. Leveraging verbal language and mixed mediums, Chung presents narrative works that linger between exhaustive detail and minimalist form. At any juncture within this spectrum, his work presents alternatives to preconceived notions that are never completely lucid, thus requiring incessant interrogation. Adept in his use of color, neon-light and form, Chung seduces the viewer into the essence of his work at once with a combination of references to current happenings and in response, conceptualized fictions. The work of SunTek Chung requires the viewer to abandon the pedantic discourse of cultural affinity and identity in its reconsideration of the misconstrued.

Mr. Chung graduated with an MFA from Yale University in 2002 and participated in Skowhegan School of Painting and Drawing. He has exhibited in numerous solo and group exhibitions in locations such as New York, Los Angeles, Canada, Berlin, and Tokyo. Chung's work has been reviewed in ArtForum, the New York Times, Beautiful Decay (cover) and many other prominent publications.

For more information,

Collette Blanchard Gallery
26 Clinton Street
New York, New York 10002
917.639.3912

www.colletteblanchard.com
Gallery Hours are Wed. - Sun. 12 -6 and by appointment.