Shannon McGill Senior Portfolio: Artist-Sze Tsung Leong

I was first drawn to the work of Sze Tsung Leong because of its visual elements. I am drawn to muted color pallets over and over again, and the prominent horizon line is something I am including in my current series. Conceptually his work makes some distant parallels with my own. I like the idea of the sky meeting the earth, of each horizon line making a connection between two unalike places when put side by side. I am trying to draw similar parallels with the images in my work.

bio:

'Sze Tsung Leong was born in Mexico City in 1970, spent his childhood between Mexico, Britain, and the United States, and currently lives and works in New York. His work has been exhibited internationally, including “An Atlas of Events” at the Gulbenkian Foundation in Lisbon, the 2006 Havana Biennial, and “New Photography” at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, and will be featured in an upcoming show at the Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art in Israel. His work is included in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the High Museum of Art, the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, and the Yale University Art Gallery, among others. He is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. His book History Images was published by Steidl in 2006.' (source:http://www.yossimilo.com/exhibitions/2008_04-sze_tsun_leon/)

"The horizon is such a basic way of comprehending the space around us, comprehending our basic relationship to the globe"

-The artist (source: Gefter, Philip. "Keeping His Eye On the Horizon Line)." New York Times 06 Apr. 2008. Print.)

“The distances separating near from far, familiar from foreign, inside from outside, iconic from quotidian, extraordinary from mundane, picturesque from unsettling, are never constant.” The relationships and gradations between these opposites that are suggested by the photographs—and the fact that the images can be rearranged to form different landscapes and visual sequences—are meant to reflect the complex and perpetually transforming relationships between regions, cultures, and nations that give form to the contemporary world and that shape the experiences of each individual viewer."(source:http://www.yossimilo.com/exhibitions/2008_04-sze_tsun_leon/)