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In Ten Thousand Crystals, Ben Tong pulls us into his world rendered in brilliant jewel tones. Nightscapes and still lifes vibrate with color and energy invisible to the naked eye. Gestural streaks and dabbles of paint dance around the canvas like beams of light in the midst of refracting and reflecting. As if looking through a stained glass window, the paintings appear illuminated, and familiar forms abstract into glimmering fragments.
When describing space in a two-dimensional medium, some artists choose to focus on form, while others meditate on line or color. For Tong, light is both the subject and vehicle by which his compositions are rendered. Light moves through layers of oil and pigment, diffracting off minerals and then directing into the eyes. This schema of light renders images in multiple dimensions of space (matter) and time (memory).
Recalling the work of Impressionist painters, Monet in particular, Tong captures life in motion, shifting light and shadow both defining and…
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In Ten Thousand Crystals, Ben Tong pulls us into his world rendered in brilliant jewel tones. Nightscapes and still lifes vibrate with color and energy invisible to the naked eye. Gestural streaks and dabbles of paint dance around the canvas like beams of light in the midst of refracting and reflecting. As if looking through a stained glass window, the paintings appear illuminated, and familiar forms abstract into glimmering fragments.
When describing space in a two-dimensional medium, some artists choose to focus on form, while others meditate on line or color. For Tong, light is both the subject and vehicle by which his compositions are rendered. Light moves through layers of oil and pigment, diffracting off minerals and then directing into the eyes. This schema of light renders images in multiple dimensions of space (matter) and time (memory).
Recalling the work of Impressionist painters, Monet in particular, Tong captures life in motion, shifting light and shadow both defining and…
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