Fresh Takes - various young artists

This exhibition is held at ChanHampe Galleries from 11th to 29th March 2015.

The exhibition is held in the spirit of SG50. These young artists are invited by the gallery to reinterpret any works which are in the National collection. And the responses were good. Some of the artists chose paintings; Alvin Ong rehashed Chua Mia Tee's famous painting, Epic Poem of Malaya.

Alvin Ong's work

Others like Sheryo chose objects from the museum. Sheryo reinterpreted door gods, like the Nias gods and came up with the modernised DoorMaster Ang.

DoorMaster Ang

Sheryo is a street artist and I liked the way she roughened the canvas to make it more like an uneven wall. Maybe she paints better with this texture.

Of the ten artists which were presented, I felt Alvin Ong, Koh Liang Jiang, Yeo Jian Long, Sheryo, Esmond Loh and Aiman Hakim are artists to watch.

Points for Collectors: Think at the time of writing, Alvin, Koh Liang Jiang, Yeo Jian Long and Sheryo's works have been sold. These artists are buys. Esmond Loh has to improve and go to art school first. But he definitely has talent. Aiman Hakim is neutral to buy as I felt his price is a bit high and thought that while his pieces show his talent it still lacks the factor that would lead a collector to burst his/her budget. Hard core collectors will know what I mean.