A long-time resident of legendary New York artist haven the Chelsea Hotel, the late Ching Ho Cheng is known for his psychedelic canvases. The second New York show for Shanghai’s Bank gallery will feature archival photographs documenting his place in the downtown scene of the ’60s and ’70s, as well as some of Cheng’s never-before-displayed gouache windows works. Each one is a carefully observed painting of sunlight as it passed through the windows of his apartment and studio, rendered in thin layers of pigment applied with an airbrush in a technique Cheng developed himself. This effort to capture the ever-changing light of the sun ties into the Buddhist principle of impermanence, which is inescapable, and defines our own lives.
Bank is located at 127 Elizabeth Street, New York, New York.
