Event Description: Enjoy a potluck and artist presentation with Seattle-based painter Larine Chung. Working in the tradition of contemporary realism, Chung creates paintings rooted in everyday life and guided by a deep sense of curiosity. Her mixed cultural background informs her work, blending Eastern sensibilities with Western motifs and revealing a subtle tension where dualities meet and merge.
Event Details: This presentation will include a fun Pau Hana Sketch activity—please bring your sketchbook and favorite drawing tools!
This event is free and open to the public. If able, please bring a dish to share and/or something to drink. Mill staples include rice and salad.
About the Artist: Larine Chung is a Seattle-based artist painting in the tradition of contemporary realism. Fueled by her unyielding curiosity, Chung's works are rooted in everyday life. Her mixed cultural backgrounds inform her art, lacing her eastern sensibility with the depiction of western motifs, presenting underlying tension of duality merging into oneness.
Chung trained in the Aristides Atelier (2006-2009) after receiving her BFA from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Chung continues to explore the language of painting after graduation with Antony Ryder, Spanish painters Golucho and Antonio Lopez Garcia. Prior to her pursuit in art, Chung majored in Biochemistry and was trained as a classical pianist in her youth. Chung has had 7 solo shows thus far with an upcoming one scheduled to be held in the Chinese University of Hong Kong in spring 2022. She was the recipient of the Waterway fellowship at Studio Escalier, France, Robert DeZordo scholarship and Gregory Robinson Scholarship. Her works has been featured in American Art Collector, Leonardo art guide, (Spain), Manifest Gallery INPA9 and INDA13, King 5 Evening Magazine, Classical King FM, the Stranger, Seattle Chinese Time and Classical Painting Atelier by Aristides. Chung is also the founder of the Eastside Artists Collaborative with the vision of fostering artistic growth for her local community.
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