Between Worlds

Between Worlds is the first solo exhibition of the works of Leah Huang. Through a year of deconstructing and reconstructing her personal narrative, the space she reached for was the ever-shifting gap on the edge of two worlds: between safety and risk, between solid ground and cloudy horizons, between grasping and relinquishing. Straddling this space had worn down a layer of the old self which serendipitously made room for discovery and regeneration.

A new group of paintings and large scale drawings are exhibited, in exploration of this duality of our human experiences.

Oil Paintings

This series of paintings seek a new perspective toward the psychological terrain in which images, particularly a juxtaposition of images, create through the narrative nature of figuration. The images all come from self created reference photos, taken on a 35mm Yashica point & shoot camera. The image source vary in subjectivity (found objects vs arranged compositions) and environment (domestic vs foreign landscape). This is an intersection of the artist’s two loves: where the photographic and painterly image become one.

Works On Paper

The large scale drawings were started last year, focusing on the singular color of red: the embodiment of emotion, flesh, aliveness, and femininity. During a particular period of chaos, drawing was the most accessible, immediate, and intuitive form of expression for the artist, which simultaneously seeded the emergence of a range of private symbolism. These drawings all unique in form, but transmit particles of healing power toward each other; hence, collectively generating a field of personal awakening.