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ARTIST ARCHIVE
Earl Jung
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Themes: oil Review: Earl Jung Earl Jung has created Abstract Expressionistic paintings. Earl Jung was born of a high ranking Chinese immigrant scholar who married a Native American woman in the mid West. As a boy he faced the racism of Chinatown and its neighboring ethnic communities. The traditional calligraphy taught to him by his father developed into the abstract expressionist calligraphic paintings which he continues to make. This mode of painting began in the hay day of that New York art movement. During the 1940's, in Cedars Bar in Greenwich Village, exchanging ideas with the well known Abstract Expressionist painters such as De Kooning, Jasper Johns, Philip Guston and Robert Motherwell, the artist had contributed to the development of Abstract Expressionist painting in the US. A veteran of WWII in an all Chinese American Brigade, he saw this community where he lives change over the decades. Working with youth through the Board of Education, it was not until he retired from there that his first exhibition under the Milieu project took place at AAAC. Available research materials of Earl Jung in the AAAC Archives are 19 slides, four large colored prints of his paintings and Xeroxed copies of the artist's English calligraphy. Reviewed by Young Park | |||||||||
