ART REVIEW: At a pair of Midcoast galleries, emotional evocations of a sense of place
January 7, 2024 — Jorge S. Arango
Excerpted from full article:
“Traces | Works & Process, Elaine K. Ng’s beautifully subtle show at Interloc (through Jan. 20) is all about place and process. Yet you won’t fully understand this immediately after crossing the threshold. Instead, the works are such silent manifestations in the clean white space that you might not register them as more than squares and rectangles of fabric tacked to the walls and a scattering of wood boxes at the rear of the gallery. You certainly would have no idea that they are culminations of processes that transpired over many years.”
Read the full article.
Traces | Works & Process
Solo Exhibition at Interloc
December 2, 2023 - January 20, 2024
Traces presents new work by Elaine K. Ng that explores movement, landscape, and different ways of understanding place. In addition to a materially diverse body of work, this exhibition also offers a glimpse into the source imagery and processes that are part of the artist’s practice.
This exhibition is funded in part by grants from the Maine Arts Commission, an independent state agency supported by the National Endowment for the Arts.
CORNING MUSEUM OF GLASS
Blog: A Guest in the Hot Shop
From the Corning Museum of Glass Blog
Posted February 1, 2022 by Jonathan Heath
Elaine K. Ng and Chris Rochelle in the Corning Museum of Glass Hot Shop
Glassblowing is often about collaboration. About working together to discover what’s possible. The Hot Glass Team at The Corning Museum of Glass (CMoG) embodies that practice. Every day, the glassblowers unite their collective skills to create masterworks in glass to the delight of our guests.
When guest artists are invited to the Museum to work with the Hot Glass Team, the unknown can create a challenging and exciting new outcome, especially when the artist is not familiar with glass. In November 2021, Elaine K. Ng was the latest in a long line of guest collaborators to join our team of gaffers, and as always, the experience was eye-opening for everyone involved.
Elaine K. Ng is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores the physical and psychological structures of site. She recently had two installations on view at The Rockwell Museum: a circle, a line, an arc and Fingerprints of Place – Taiwan. Although Ng uses all manner of materials including found objects, glass has not been a primary resource until now, and so her time with glassblowers was a first for her.
With time to reflect on her experience, we asked Elaine K. Ng what it was like working in the Hot Shop.
CORNING MUSEUM OF GLASS
Guest Artist Live Stream
November 17, 2021
Fingerprints of Place - Taiwan
Solo Exhibition at The Rockwell Museum
September 24, 2021 - January 23, 2022
ANTIGRAVITY rotunda installation
A short video about my site-specific installation at The Rockwell Museum.
ANTIGRAVITY rotunda installation
July 2020 - January 2022
Corning, New York
The Rockwell Museum
OVER/UNDER solo exhibition
January 26 - February 29, 2020
Rockland, ME
Interloc
Residency @ Surf Point Foundation
December 1 - 21, 2019
York, Maine
Surf Point Foundation
Photo by Beverly Hallam
Gyeonggi International Ceramic Biennale 2019 Korea
Excited to be included among the 302 artists selected (from 1,599 entries) for the 2019 Biennale in Korea. Click on the image below to see the entire list.
Research and Reflections: Fulbright Taiwan Journal
October 31, 2018
An Excuse to Get Started
(excerpted from the full essay)
I once listened to an interview with a famous artist, who when asked if she cared whether people knew something about the original influences in her work, replied: “Well, it’s nice if they know, but it doesn’t really matter. Those things were just an excuse for me to get started.”
As an artist, I feel a strong resonance with this statement. I am always looking for an excuse to get started, whether it is conscious or not. I think it’s common to want to ground yourself in something – anything – so that you feel a sense of purpose or direction with your work. Do I need my audience to know and understand this grounding? Not necessarily in its entirety. I aim for my work to impart nonverbal ideas, and for me these ideas stem from a collective knowledge of objects and spaces. To present work that does this, however, generally requires a substantive amount of research, much of which I do not expect an audience to need in order to appreciate my work. If someone decides to dig deeper, they will find themselves rewarded with a greater understanding of my thinking, a richer experience with the work, and most likely, evidence of my original excuse to get started.
Research and Process: Interview with Fulbright Taiwan
August 2018
EXHIBITION
In Residence: Selections from Haystack's Open Studio Residency
Haystack Center for Community Programs
Deer Isle, Maine
July 20 - September 1, 2018
Opening reception: Sunday, July 22
2017-18 Fulbright Research Fellowship Award
September 2017 - July 2018
Taiwan
Residency @ Hewnoaks Artist Colony
July 22-29, 2017
Lovell, Maine
Hewnoaks Artist Colony
Residency @ Haystack Open Studio Residency
May 29 - June 9, 2017
Deer Isle, Maine
Haystack Mountain School of Crafts
