Rona Chang: Moving Forward, Standing Still – Queens Edition
September 17 – October 29, 2011
Opening Reception:
Saturday September 17, 4 – 6pm
The Homefront Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new work by Rona Chang. Moving Forward, Standing Still – Queens Edition will open to the public on Saturday September 17, 4-6pm and will be on view through October 29.
Moving Forward, Standing Still is an ongoing project that is engaged in portraying the complex intersection of people and cultures in a landscape. This exhibition will feature photographs taken within the last year for the Queens edition of Moving Forward, Standing Still. In the Queens edition the artist focused her lens on the neighborhoods of Astoria, Corona, Elmhurst, Flushing, Jackson Heights and the Rockaways. These neighborhoods are some of the most culturally diverse in the world and it is the intersection of cultures that she documents.
Each photograph depicts figures in a landscape, emphasizing the arrangement of formal elements and the familiar yet perplexing moments within everyday life. These encounters reveal the moment when a set of characters, a network of relationships, and an architecture of connections seem suspended in space.
The Queens edition of Moving Forward, Standing Still continues the artist’s interestin recording “the cumulative effect of people on their environment”. Although Chang has produced images for the series in many parts of the world, this project goes full circle and brings together her experience of “seeing the world, re-examining [her] immediate home environment and then seeing the world within the neighborhoods of Queens.”
Photographer Rona Chang is a recipient of En Foco’s New Works #14 Fellowship. In 2011, she was awarded a grant by Queens Council on the Arts with public funding from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs for her series Moving Forward, Standing Still. Ms. Chang is a finalist for the 2011 Rome Prize. In 2007 she was an associate artist at the Atlantic Center of the Arts residency under the guidance of Thomas Struth. Her work has been showcased online and has exhibited both nationally and internationally. After receiving her BFA from The Cooper Union School of Art she worked as a photographer for the Asian Art Department at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for nine years, where she photographed all of the Japanese woodblock prints, Indian paintings, and Chinese handscrolls in the collection. Her work can be seen on ronachang.com.
The Queens edition is made possible in part by the Queens Council on the Arts with public funding from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs and the New Works #14 Fellowship from En Foco.
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