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Happy Reunion
Oil and Collage
180 x 120cm X 3 2001 |
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Spring 2001 Mixed Media 71x51cm |
Summer 2001 Mixed Medie 71x 51cm |
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What the Critics say............................................................. | ||||||||
I have to admit that, as a painter, Quah has much strength. At best, his work manifests convincing material skills combined with an imaginative and sensitive touch… But of greater significance is the fact that Quah is no slave of fashion or ideology in art. His vision seems enmeshed in the conservation of expressive painterly skills whose tendrils are rooted in the richness of tradition.
By Michael Montague, |
The often thickly applied oils in which Quah works and the layer effects of collaged material such as the actual fragments of fabric, pages from books, photographs and more, create both the deep, luminous colors and a richly living painterly quality. Here one feels hi is an artist completely confident of, and reveling in his medium.
By Susan McCullich, |
Bridging cultures is never easy but Malaysian-born artist Eric Quah has been doing it for a
long time. From Penang to Melbourne, from New York to Nanjing, he has
taken his fascination with the everyday world and fashioned from it a
rich and startling body of art. |
Eric Quah’s life history is enmeshed in the tapestry of personal strife in his itinerant journey across geography and cultures, an back into investigation of self. His work are an affirmation of life, a signpost and a barometer of change of the artist’s life as well as he environment, the sequence of actions and human behavioral patterns, a muted whisper or gossip, glimpses of faces, flashes of places… His is a parallel, a painted life and a painter’s life celebrating his dreams, his vision, his expectations, experiences and experiments.
By Ooi Kok Chuen, Author |