New Image Art is pleased to present, Ever Free a solo exhibition by Jeffrey Cheung opening Saturday, January 25th, 2020 from 7-10 PM.
New Image Art Gallery is pleased to present new paintings by Jeffrey Cheung in Ever Free, the artist's second solo exhibition with the gallery to date. Cheung’s fluid figurative works blend pop and graffiti, which is evident in his new body of airbrushed large scale paintings. The artist’s positive narratives are in response to the current state of repression of sexual and expressive freedom, racial and gender inequality, the excesses of capitalism, and other issues of deep personal concern to the artist. For all the art market success Cheung has enjoyed, he like Keith Haring also licensed mass-marketed items that permitted anyone who could afford a T-shirt or skateboard to own a token of his work, and he plowed a chunk of the profits into social causes. His style, above all, denies no one access.
Jeff Cheung is a Bay Area based, Chinese-American artist, who is the co-founder of Unity Press and Unity Skateboard Company.Cheung’s bright figurative work celebrates queerness within his personal life and within skate culture. He is a prolific maker, whose vivacious art examines freedom, identity, and intersectionality, through bold color and intertwined characters. Cheung’s figures stem from his homoerotic zine making practice and have grown into larger than life paintings. On canvas his playful androgynous characters fearlessly take up space, blend together and playfully unite in non-binary identities. His genderless body positive world questions the boundaries of sexuality, body, gender, and race. Cheung’s simplistic line-work of gender nonspecific bodies offers a clever yet loving response to the heteronormative male gaze creating a more inclusive and accessible entry point.
