JEFFREY CHEUNG

DREAM

JANUARY 23, 2021 - FEBRUARY 27, 2021

JEFFREY CHUENG
DREAM
SOLO EXHIBITION (MAIN GALLERY)
EXHIBITION DATES: 23 JANUARY 2021 to 27 FEBRUARY 2021
OPENING RECEPTION: SAT JAN 23 (By Appointment Only)
GALLERY HOURS: TUES - SAT / 1PM - 6PM (By Appointment Only)
NEW IMAGE ART, 7920 SANTA MONICA BLVD LOS ANGELES CA 90046

New Image Art is pleased to present Dream, an exhibition of new bright-colored paintings by San Francisco-based artist Jeffrey Cheung along with paper collages by Marbie opening this Saturday, January 23rd, 2021 from 2-7 PM.

 Jeffrey Cheung’s practice is always evolving and growing, which is evident in his new body of vividly painted large scale paintings. His 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. 

Marbie is a skater and artist based in Madison, Wisconsin. As a trans woman and gifted artist /skater, Marbie creates vivid and iconic paper cut outs of graphic figures waving their bodies. Her animated characters emit a sense of freedom and joy parallel to Cheung’s work.  

Jeffrey 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.