James Leong, Discovery, 2000. Photo: Courtesy of Chatwin Arts.
The Art Of James Leong: A Retrospective, Part Ii
Chatwin Arts Gallery, Seattle, WA - Feb 6 – Mar 1
James Leong (1929–2011) moved to Seattle in 1990 after a storied career in San Francisco, Oslo, Rome and New York, and with a raft of awards including Fulbright, Guggenheim and Whitney fellowships. Part II of Chatwin Arts’ retrospective is impressive. Monied Mountain, Guilian Three (both 1999) and Discovery (2000) are late-career breakthroughs of glistening color spatters that cohere into classical Chinese mountain-and-river landscapes. As Leong stated in an unpublished autobiography, his return to Seattle allowed him to blend his modernist style with his
Chinese heritage.
