Elaine Chao

Bio

Born 1990 in Flushing, NY.; B.A. in Art from Rutgers University - New Brunswick; Currently an art organizer at Orenda Art Works; multimedia artist using acrylic, gouache, paper, Photoshop; no awards or prizes

Awards/Exhibitions:

10th Annual 'All Women' Online Art Exhibition (Special Recognition), Light, Space, Time Gallery; Mardi Gras Exhibition 2021, NYC Arts Empire; Transcendence, Local Project

Artist Statement

My body of work consists largely of original prints, or work that exist only in printed form as original productions. They are the result of a multimedia process, beginning with acrylic or gouache on paper or canvas and transferred photographically to Photoshop. The paintings are then altered using the various tools available in Photoshop to interact with light and color (as a function of light). I go further than edit or alter the photographs of the paintings, and abjectly create using the software. Conceptually, I engage with the interactions of art and language. "Texts" for example, may be read, or felt as textiles, and humans have decorated their textiles with patterns, or narratives such as in the case scrolls or tapestries. I abstract these concepts and create "text"-like prints.