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Score for 7^th Light, 2007
Mixed mediums on paper
15 works, each 14 x 11 in / 35.6 x 27.9 cm
Courtesy of Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

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Begun in 2005, PAUL CHAN’s ambitious cycle entitled The 7 Light (completed in 2008) combines projections, together with charcoal drawings, collages and digital studies to create a series of enigmatic encounters with light and darkness. This quality is indicated in the title, where the word ‘light’ has been struck through, drawing attention to both its presence and absence.

More about this project via the New Museum of Contemporary Art’s website or click here to listen to the PAUL CHAN interview with HANS ULRICH OBRIST. Additionally, he started in 2010 a press, Badlands Unlimited which publishes e-books as well as paper books and artist works.

PAUL CHAN was born in Hong Kong (1973) and raised in Nebraska. He received his BFA from the Art Institute of Chicago, and his MFA in film/video/new media from Bard College (2002). His work in various media oscillates between the delicate and the monumental, the subtle and the provocative, connecting complex ideas to today’s mass-media-disseminated material and cunningly deploying both traditional and newer techniques to re-imagine older notions.