Specializing in Thai & Asian Contemporary Art
At Eat me Restaurant, Thai artist, Maymay Jumsai, presents a series of monochromatic abstractions dedicated to process, materiality and form. By first folding white paint and then black onto un-stretched canvas, the artist creates forms that spread across the picture plane. Maymay’s deliberate yielding to forces over which she has marginal control produces canvases of undulating horizontal black waves. For Maymay, the expression of these labor intensive paintings is left open to viewer -- for some maybe an expression of Buddhist doctrine, for others a post-apocalyptic landscape and for others they may imply a search for the reconciliation of opposing forces, unification with the world and the achievement of transcendence. This freedom of interpretation for the viewer is central to Maymay. The artist wonders what painting is actually about, what paintings are doing? Because people are taught how to look at paintings, Maymay wants the viewer to begin the process of interpretation by seeing only paint on canvas, and only then to move to interpret this “paint on canvas” as the observer wishes. |