The fresh point of view with which we first meet the world is difficult to sustain, unless one is an artist. In their hands, familiar symbols like brands and products, and cultural signifiers like television cartoons and picture books become outlets for deeper concerns: consumerism, historical representation, solitude, ignorance, kindness. Excitement and adventure commingle with domesticity and dream states. The barrier between worlds is thin.

Adam Handler explores the theme of loneliness, imagination, solitude, and connection in the form of imaginative figures such as ghosts and wide-eyed girls, in paintings where flatness and “cute” aesthetics reflect the immediacy and purity of interior worlds. Suanjaya Kencut’s big-button eyed dolls are naÏve characters, whose feral postures suggest lives of emotional intensity.

Mixing abstraction and figurative imagery, George Morton-Clark portrays familiar cartoon characters with expressive, spontaneous strokes to reflect how the familiar symbols that come into our homes through television programs and advertisements offer connection through consumption but leave us fragmented. Michael Scoggins’ paintings using loose-leaf paper from his school days as a motif transcribes the everyday activity of doodling in a notebook onto a grander scale. The results are optimistic and absurd, and occasionally aspirational.

Novo’s works are still lifes composed of items that personally resonate with him. To him, painting those items is akin to creating a self-portrait because every object collected gave answers to a lingering question of “Who am I?”.  The “Long Long Time Flower” is created by Nanan Kang as a way to conserve the celebration of happiness that may never wither away through time, offering the viewers to relish the meaning of love and happiness.  (Baik Art)

As one of the featured artist, Suanjaya Kencut presents two of his artwork from To the Moon Series; “Laying Down”, and “Proud”.