VISUAL ARTS + MUSEUMS

Skydive presents the exhibition Butterflies Shift North: solo exhibition by artist in residence - Susan Chen, on view January 6 through January 31.

SKYDIVE is pleased to announce a solo exhibition by artist in residence - Susan Chen. Originally from Houston, Chen is based in San Francisco.

Susan Chen presents a new installation using a unique combination of panoramic painting, projected video, and sculpture. Chen’s practice is inspired by 19th century Romantic painting of the sublime landscape and the mythical notion of Arctic Eden, the tropical paradise in the middle of a world of frozen oceans and glaciers.

Chen states, “Leftover visual memories stemming from Caspar David Friedrich and John Martin get filtered though stories and pulp fiction from Jules Verne and sci-fi to movies and TV shows like “Lost”. Islands and the arctic regions are my riffing point. These symbolic places for transformation are disappearing and once again the weather or nature has sublime power in it’s original sense of awesomeness and possible destruction of the viewer.”

Chen has created a large-scale panoramic experience of a futuristic landscape in the Skydive space.