Shattered (2024) depicts a detail from Rogier van Der Weyden’s Descent from the Cross (c.1435). Painted on an amethyst geode, it shows the face of a woman consumed by grief....
Shattered (2024) depicts a detail from Rogier van Der Weyden’s Descent from the Cross (c.1435). Painted on an amethyst geode, it shows the face of a woman consumed by grief. Chaotic forces strain upon dimensions of anguish as crystalline tears stream down her face. She endures the tensity of her pain while aching for release, fracturing within a vortex of despair.
Chris Oh was born in 1982 in Portland, Oregon. Currently lives and works in Queens, NY.
Appropriation has long been understood as one of the defining practices of modern art. This art of the copy, however, is not limited to that which came after the age of reproduction. The conscious duplication of preexisting artworks is as present in Warhol as it is in Ovid’s reconfigurations of Virgil. The push and pull between homage and authorship is central to an artist forming their own language; and just as Rubens copied and contorted the work of Titian, Chris Oh co-opts masterpieces from the Western canon in order to forge his own singular oeuvre. Altogether, Oh’s work is a resurrection of art history. To view these delicate paintings is to see the artist recall some of the most sublime reflections on 15th and 16th - century life and use them as mirrors through which to observe our own moment in time. - Ariella Wollens
《碎裂》(2024)描绘了罗吉尔·凡·德尔·维登 (Rogier van Der Weyden) 于1435年左右所作的《下十字架》(Descent from the Cross, c.1435) 中的一个局部。紫晶洞上浮现出女性悲伤的面孔。当晶莹剔透的泪水沿着她的脸颊滑落,她承受着混乱力量的撕扯,渴望解脱却在绝望的漩涡中逐渐崩解碎裂。