Janice Young
April 23 – May 5, 2024
Opening reception
Tuesday, April 23 | 5 PM
The Crucible Gallery
Level 4, Building A, SM Megamall, Mandaluyong, Philippines
In Janice Liuson-Young’s 9th one-woman show titled “Clouds Come Floating” at The Crucible Gallery, she presents a collection of gestural abstraction paintings that serve as visual meditations on color as perceived and experienced in nature. The title “Clouds Come Floating,” taken from a segment of Rabindranath Tagore’s famous words, “Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky,” alludes to the artist’s spiritual journey marked by a sense of surrender to what she believes to be divinely designed sublime wonders in the natural world and divinely ordained encounters in her personal life. For Liuson-Young, chromatic and textural relationships within a pictorial field can evoke atmospheric qualities reminiscent of majestic sunrises and sunsets, as well as sunlight stunningly reflected in bodies of water such as oceans, seas, and rivers. Acknowledging that color perception is related to an object’s light absorption, reflection, emission spectra, and interference, Janice Liuson-Young uses her gestural brushwork to create varying levels of transparency, translucency, and opacity, producing an illusion of luminosity within her dazzling polychromatic pictorial fields. —PDV
