Chimeric Whims Solo Exhibition at Gallery 102
Through painting, Chimeric Whims investigates the ties between the fantastical, the grotesque, and the uncanny. The exhibition combines different histories: western painting, Asian-American identity, speculative biology, and girlhood. Figure painting, repeated motifs, illegitimate subjects, and a muted iridescent color palette fabricate the landscapes.
Chimeric Whims is a self-portrait of the artist Therself. The surreal figures and atmospheres exist in the same dream world where the laws and physiological constraints are based on but not limited to reality. The natural world is the foundation, yet the figures exist in a mirage with absurd anthropomorphized animals and abstractions.
Photos by Florence Tian