FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
May 5, 2005

Goliath Visual Space is pleased to present the works of Chitra Ganesh and SooKoon Ang in the upcoming exhibition Written on Wind and Water. An opening reception will be held on Friday May 20th from 7-9 PM. Gallery hours are Saturdays and Sundays 12 to 6 PM and weekdays by appointment. The exhibition will be on view through Sunday June 12th.

Both artists utilize detailed imagery layered with the written word to draw the viewer into unique tales, exploring the creative and subversive role of storytelling in the interpretation of experiences, history and reality.

Chitra Ganesh will create a new site-specific wall drawing incorporating various sculptural elements. Ganesh’s work draws from a broad range of source materials including Greek and Hindu iconography, 19th century portraiture, lesbian pulp novels, Bollywood posters and zines. Through the layering of disparate images and materials the artist proposes alternate mythologies where suppressed stories rise to the surface.

In SooKoon Ang’s hand-drawn book series Housewife Into Poet, intricately detailed pen and ink drawings illustrate abstract tales of a housewife’s life from which undercurrents of dark dissatisfaction emerge. The books will be accompanied by a series of short films which use moving images as well as animation, narration, music and text to tell the tales of love, loss, travel and exploration.

Chitra Ganesh is originally from New York City and currently resides in Brooklyn. Her work has been exhibited at the Queens Museum, Brooklyn Museum, the Bronx Museum for the Arts, White Columns and Apex Art among others. She has a Masters of Fine Art from Columbia University and is currently an artist-in-residence at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s workspace program.

SooKoon Ang was born and raised in Singapore where she trained at the Nanyang Academy of fine Arts and the LaSalle/Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University. She is a graduate of School of Visual Arts in New York. Her work has been featured in exhibitions in Singapore, Australia and New York as well as numerous film and video festivals in Europe and Asia. She is currently an artist-in-residence at the Shanghai Duolan Museum of Modern Art.