JOSEPHINE CHEUNG
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2025
COMMEMORATIVE EXHIBITION
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Born in Hong Kong in 1954, Josephine Cheung passed away in Toronto in 1989 at the age of 35. Though her years as an artist were brief - from 1981 to 1989 - she worked tirelessly to push the boundaries ____ exploring new possibilities in color, form and composition. “Her works reveal a sophistication b____ abstraction and figuration” Professor J.J. Lee, Chair of Drawing and Painting at OCAD University in Toronto. “Her use of color became more layered and complex, figure ground boundaries ___ paintings took on an emodied presence”
SFC grew up in Sheung Shui, a rural town on the outskirts of Hong Kong, close to the border with mainland China. ___ a neighborhood store selling frozen meat, and her childhood was by all accounts, joyful.... “Our town was surrounded by forests and trees,... and we could hang out until midnight”.
-- Carol, Josephine did not practice art until the age of 19, when she moved to Canada to attend a college in Cornwall, Ontario, Canada. A year later, she transferred to the Ontario College of Art University, where she studied drawing, painting, lithogrophy and ceramics. Her talent was quickly recognized, she gained the prestigious Loomis and Toles Scolarship a year later.
In her time at OCA, Jo was deeply influenced by Abstract Expressionism, then the dominant ____ in the Canadian art scene. She graduated in 1979 and entered a formative period of self-building. Several compeitive scolarships - including the OCA New York Scholarship ___ extended time in New York City. There, exposure to the art of Kenny Scharf and Basquiat pivoted her away from Abstract Expressionism...