New Gallery on Old Bailey

Exhibition Duration: Now – 19 September (Fri), 2014  Opening Reception: 6 September, 2014 / 3 – 6 pm Venue: New Gallery on Old Bailey /  4/F, 35 Tai Yau Street, SPK, Kai Tak, Kowloon

Eileen Chan, the creator of Bottlemania, returns to New Gallery on Old Bailey with her second solo exhibition. Ideation . Life, organized by Breathe Life Arts and Culture, will be held from 30 August through 19 September, 2014. 

Throughout her career, Eileen Chan’s artistic creation has evolved from traditional Chinese ink paintings to her pop art-inspired bottle art known as Bottlemania. Chan continues her prior exploration into the ideology of Bottlemania through different artistic approaches. In the series of Time Gala paintings, Chan turns bottles into colorful abstract forms. Traces of different strokes are drawn on the neck of the bottles, the artist calls them ‘Time Signatures', as if time capsules were created to preserve the artist’s precious moments. 

Each painting is a recollection of the artist’s past. Chan uses lines as tools to illustrate her meticulous chain of memories. Seamless lines flow through every inch of the canvas, but masterfully invoke an elegant balance; woven into swirling paths of the artist’s thoughts. Some of the works are almost hypnotic in their density and intricateness, enticing viewers to navigate the artist’s mind. 

Eileen Chan is a Hong Kong artist with a cosmopolitan sense. She has collaborated with international luxury brands, including Tumi and Frank Muller, and local renowned fashion designer Noel Chu, to create products and fashion items with an artistic touch. Fusing art and life; embracing the concept of ‘art as a lifestyle’.

This exhibition will continue to exhibit Chan’s distinct artistic creation: bottle arts. For Chan, each and every bottle is filled with emotion and stories. She transforms used bottles into canvases and gives them second lives, which aligns with the vision of Breathe Life Arts and Culture, using art as a platform to promote environmental awareness. 

New Gallery on Old Bailey is proud to present Part 2 of “Back in Time: Post-War to Post-Modern”.  Part 2 of this exhibition will continue to feature lithographs, serigraphs, etchings, sculptures, collages and paintings by multi-internationally acclaimed artists from the Post-War to Post-Modern periods, on view from July 7 to August 22, 2014.

Period after the Second World War had led to a new acceleration of the European and American art.  The post-war period marked by the rise of Informalism in Europe; Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art in the United States.  During these new waves of art movement in the mid-1900s, European and American artists exploited the traditional style and developed a new form of creation.  Flourished with evolved new artistic techniques, works in this period offered an artistic vision free from traditional conventions and representations.

Travel back in time to see works by renowned artists, who played an indispensable role in the Golden Age of Art.  Featured artists included Gianni Bertini, Baldaccini Cesar, Robert Combas, Ovide Maitec, Itsvan Nadler, Edik Schteinberg, Mimmo Rotella,  Ben Vautier, Tom Wesselmann and more.

"From Land to Sky" Painting Exhibition Susan Yeung x Ada Chan May 7 - June 21, 2014

New Gallery on Old Bailey presents the exhibition “From Land to Sky” featuring paintings by Hong Kong based multi-talented artists Susan Yeung and Ada Chan, on view from 7 May to 21 June, 2014.

  “From Land to Sky” will be the eighth joined painting exhibition by the artistic duo since Breathe Life Arts Exhibition in Hong Kong. Susan and Ada share the same passion, art, an approach to illustrate their insights and unique perspective of life through the use of composition, color and brushstrokes. 

  Susan’s paintings veer toward emotion over narration; enchanting the magical side of life through depictions with impressionistic touch. Her work has been influenced to some extent by impressionist paintings, offering viewers snapshots of scenery in dreamlike settings. Her sensitive depictions of landscape are distinguished by subtle colors and free brushstrokes, which give her paintings unusual vitality. 

New Gallery on Old Bailey presents "Abstract Dialogue" Exhibition  /  Eliza Cheng  / Eric Ng

4 March - 3 May, 2014 4/F, 35 Tai Yau St, SPK, Kai Tak, Kowloon, HK

A two-person exhibition of works by Hong Kong artists Eliza Cheng and Eric Ng, on view from March 4 to May 3, 2014.  You are cordially invited to the cocktail opening reception on March 8 at 3:00 PM.