OMCA Store: Ophelia Ho

Ophelia Ho has worked professionally as a graphic designer. This past year she dedicated her time to work exclusively on a personal project focused on traditional scenes of Chinese culture and daily life. The artist chose giclee printing as the medium to manifest this limited edition series of eighteen illustrations. Her attraction to giclee print as a medium is inspired through her experience with silk screen printing and digital print.

Inspiration for these giclee prints was fueled through her childhood memories of Chinese traditional ink and brush paintings created by her grandfather and her mother. Existing in between Chinese and American culture, it gives her insight to both places. By using mixed traditional images and modern color rendition she produced unique illustration with meticulous details. The artist is captivated by the simplicity and complexity of the Chinese culture which allows her to experience light, depth, and energy in her own delicate lines and rich colors of the elements. The relationship between traditional elements and modern color renditions are a recurring theme of these illustrations. These compositions include architecture, people, nature and other unique elements. Through these illustrations the ways of life from the past are told. The old becomes the new.

On view in the OMCA Store January 28-February 26, 2012

The artist's visit is part of the OMCA Lunar New Year Festival.