Tina Keng Gallery | Jenny Chen: Order in Chaos | Exhibition Video

The first solo exhibition of the artist since her return from the U.S. in 2020, Order in Chaos crystallizes the changes and differences she has experienced during the past two years. Her personal feelings run unbridled in the layering of pigments, the fusion of hues and shades, enfolding the viewer in a lingering sense of chromatic exuberance. The exhibition title is inspired by Chen’s observation of New York: a city pregnant with cultural heterogeneity, despite the noise, tumult, and clamor, is just the perfect environment for contemporary art to thrive and nurture a sense of order in chaos. Echoing this harmony amidst turmoil, the artist’s abstract shapes and colors coalesce into spontaneous landscapes filtered through her mind’s eye. At times fast, at times slow, a palpable sense of speed reigns in her work: compositions converge or sprawl, dictated by the flow of paint. The use of only primary colors heightens the visual force of her abstraction; the texture of the canvas formed by collaged paint fragments and the preexisting painted layer leavens the surface with an elemental tactility.