[BCMA] EXHIBITION UNDERTONES OF GREEN - PAINTINGS BY JUNE YUN opens at Lipont Gallery

[Moderated BCMA subscriber listserv.]

For Immediate Release

 

Lipont Gallery presents

 

EXHIBITION

UNDERTONES OF GREEN - PAINTINGS BY JUNE YUN

 

Lipont Gallery, Lipont Place, 4211 No. 3 Road, Richmond BC V6X2C3

 

Public Opening

Saturday June 22, 2019 2 - 4pm

 

Exhibition

June 22 - July 19, 2019 free admission

Monday - Friday 10am - 5pm weekends by appointment

 

"Your mind is like a beautiful pool of water reflecting the world around
it." - Hugh Kidd

 

 



 

 

Although art is her passion and painting is her meditation, June Yun
considers herself a mixed media artist. Besides painting and drawing, she
works with printmaking, video and installation.

 

During the past decade, water and clouds are the other predominant subjects
of her art. She uses them as metaphors conveying aesthetics of her Chinese
background: simplicity, tranquility, and solitary. Oriental people's
perception and admiration of water have informed the wisdom of the East.
That is also why traditional Chinese art assumed ink and water as the medium
and the language of landscape paintings. The mercurial forms of water and
its reflections build a dreamlike mirage on June Yun's canvases. Floating
clouds are another form of water. They seem vague, unreachable, ethereal and
even intangible for some humans, yet June Yun can transcribe her fleeing
memories through the water, clouds and mist in her art.

 

In the springtime of 2019, June Yun started a new series of paintings called
Undertones of Green that extends the subject from water to the ubiquitous
tender green that is reflected in water. "The greenness of Vancouver in
springtime filled my world. Breezes rippled on the glistening water; fresh
flower buds were almost ready to become bloom. Spring was in the wind, in
the trees, on the ground, filled my lungs, ran through my hair and danced in
my dreams, and then the paintings came into being naturally." This series of
paintings straddle the line between abstraction and representation. They not
only capture the realistic side of the ambiance of spring season, but also
colour June Yun's reverie, be it reality or dream.

 

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Media Contact:

Patrick Li Pascal

(604) 285-9975 ext. 207

patrick.l.pascal at lipont.com

www.lipontplace.com

 

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June Yun

June Yun was born in China. She lived and studied fine art in the U.K. and
received her Master of Fine Arts Degree from University of Newcastle upon
Tyne. Since 2001, she has been living and working in Vancouver as a
full-time artist. Yun's work has been exhibited internationally, including
solo shows in the U.K., France, China, in venues such as Himalaya Art Museum
in Shanghai and Richmond Art Gallery, Banff Centre and Lipont Gallery in
Canada. She participated in The Radius Mural and Big Prints public art
projects in Vancouver and received several art awards from Europe, Canada
and China

 

Lipont Place

Lipont Place is a multifunctional venue for exhibitions, auctions, events,
meetings, trade shows, performances, and creative pop-up shops. With a total
footprint of 21,000 square feet, Lipont Place is Metro Vancouver's newest
international venue, staging some of the most exciting events in the region.
With 230 on-site parking spaces and just steps away from the Canada Line,
Lipont Place has hosted solo exhibitions and group exhibitions with
participation from hundreds of artists from Canada and abroad. These
exhibitions showcased contemporary photography, paintings, drawings,
sculpture, textiles, and crafts including the traveling exhibition Titanic:
The Artifact Exhibition in 2018.

 

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