Crystal w.m. Chan
Artist
Crystal w.m. Chan was born and raised in Macau, a former Portuguese colony in China. She has lived in Taiwan, Greece and Portugal, and enrolled at the School of Visual Arts in New York.
Chan started as a self taught artist and since 2012, has had solo and joint exhibitions in Macau, Hong Kong, Singapore, San Francisco and New York. Her illustrations often involve figures and portraits that are drawn with expressive lines and strokes influenced by Chinese calligraphy. Her oil and watercolour paintings seek to elicit emotions in viewers through a straightforward, honest and direct approach.
Using a varied array of references to inform her work, Chan often focuses on 'unsettled living environments and a longing for home' as central theme in her work. Historical events and cross-cultural influences have also led her to further questions about the complexity of identity and representation.
Chan considers her work to be an act of imagining the past, compiling what has faded and what remains to create art balancing between a tangible and intangible boundary.
Crystal w.m. Chan was born and raised in Macau, a former Portuguese colony in China. She has lived in Taiwan, Greece and Portugal, and enrolled at the School of Visual Arts in New York.
Chan started as a self taught artist and since 2012, has had solo and joint exhibitions in Macau, Hong Kong, Singapore, San Francisco and New York. Her illustrations often involve figures and portraits that are drawn with expressive lines and strokes influenced by Chinese calligraphy. Her oil and watercolour paintings seek to elicit emotions in viewers through a straightforward, honest and direct approach.
Using a varied array of references to inform her work, Chan often focuses on 'unsettled living environments and a longing for home' as central theme in her work. Historical events and cross-cultural influences have also led her to further questions about the complexity of identity and representation.
Chan considers her work to be an act of imagining the past, compiling what has faded and what remains to create art balancing between a tangible and intangible boundary.
