Imperial Valley Press Luke Chueh exhibit featured at SDSU-IV art gallery Tuesday,
November 4, 2003 2:41 PM PST CALEXICO
— An exhibit by Los Angeles artist Luke Chueh will open Thursday
in the Steppling Art Gallery at San Diego State University-Imperial Valley
campus here. The exhibit, titled "My Forlorn Hope," includes paintings and drawings. Chueh's crisp, graphic style produces dismayed, cartoon-like animal subjects as the focus of ironic predicaments, according to a press release. "Traditionally, the sublime is described as the beautiful tinged with pain," said Steppling gallery director Sheila Dollente. "Chueh pares that idea to a single spare image borne by figures reminiscent of the soft, innocent stuffed animals of childhood. His paintings are at once intriguing, puzzling, friendly and sorrowful. "Unfortunately
for us, his works sell like hotcakes," added Dollente. Originally from Philadelphia, Chueh was raised in Fresno and is a graduate of graphic design from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. He spent several years doing promotion, design and editing for music-related enterprises, including the publication of E.X.P. Magazine, which extols the experimental electronic music and Intelligent Dance Music genres. Chueh works as a coordinator for the Cannibal Flower Art Gallery and Performance Space, an underground exhibit forum in Los Angeles. Guest curator for the exhibit is Bibiana Padilla Maltos of Mexicali, an internationally exhibited visual poet, artist and performance artist who also promotes innovative work through her position as coordinator of the annual AV Text Fest staged each winter in Baja California. The exhibit, "My Forlorn Hope," will be on view through Dec. 5. The gallery is open from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Wednesdays or by appointment. Steppling Art Gallery is on the Carrillo Quad of SDSU-IV, 720 Heber Ave., in Calexico. For more information contact Dollente at 768-5536.
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