Artist: Elaine Chao

Location: Solas Studio, 117 East 24th street, Second Floor (2D), New York City, 10010

Show Dates: August 17 - 26, 2023

All other times: By Appointment Only - Request a private viewing via email at hello@solas.studio

Elaine B. Chao is a New York based artist working in mixed media-digital print making. After earning a B.A. in Video Art from Rutgers University she discovered painting. Her unique process of digital print making draws on visual, cultural and stylistic elements from artists like Klee and Richter as well as Classical Chinese art.

“My artistic practice combines genres and materials to explore divergency in representation. The most fundamental description of my work would be that I use traditional and new media to explore the possibilities of digital tools as an extension of artistic creation. My digital “monoprints” intentionally question what is an original. The ever-increasing ability to sample, manipulate and create myriad visual “objects,” forces the question of who is creating what and is it original? I might argue that artistic and aesthetic creation has always been a process of accretion, reference and innovation”.- Elaine Chao