AUGUST 22, 2022. GRACE EBERT
King Tide.” All images © Jon Ching, courtesy of Beinart Gallery
Los Angeles-based artist Jon Ching imagines the fantastic possibilities of melding Earth’s flora and fauna, rendering bizarre creatures with mushroom feathers and striped tulip fins. His latest oil paintings, which are on view this fall in Habitat at Beinart Gallery, extend this interest in hybridity by blending aquatic, aerial, and terrestrial organisms and their environments.
Left: “Hygge.” Right: “Think Tank”
Marine ecosystems appear in many of the pieces, alongside cacti and succulents native to Ching’s home in southern California.[…]
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