Andrea Chung
Untitled, 2016

Cyanotype on watercolor paper, 22.5 x 30 inches
Unique, signed certificate of authenticity
Unframed
Courtesy of the artist and Tyler Park Presents, Los Angeles
Estimated value: $4,000

Andrea Chung’s cyanotype works capture underwater scenes of lionfish, offering an allegory for colonization, as the non-native species have reshaped the environment of Caribbean waters by destroying the ecosystems according to their own needs. Furthermore, the cyanotype process is important for this series because of its association with prints from nature but also because of its association with the quintessential planning document, the blueprint, which places it at the intersection of ideas that Chung explores in photography and its relationship with the Caribbean and material processes.

About the Artist:
Andrea Chung

Andrea Chung (b.1978, Newark, NJ) lives and works in San Diego, California. She received a BFA from Parsons School of Design, New York, and a MFA from Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore. Her recent biennale and museum exhibitions include the Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA; Prospect 4, New Orleans; and the Jamaican Biennale, Kingston, Jamaica; as well as the Chinese American Museum and California African American Museum in Los Angeles and the San Diego Art Institute.

In 2017, her first solo museum exhibition, you broke the ocean in half to be here, took place at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. She has participated in national and international residencies including the Vermont Studio Center, McColl Center for Visual Arts, Headlands Center for the Arts, and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Her work has been written about in Artfile Magazine, The New Orleans Times-Picayune, Artnet, The Los Angeles Times, and International Review of African American Art, among other publications.

Her work is included in collections such as the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego; Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI; NoVo Foundation, New York; Cleveland Clinic Art & Medicine Institute; Minneapolis Institute of Art; Davis Museum at Wesley College; Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA; and the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.

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