Harold Washington Library Center hosts an Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month art exhibit on the third floor through the month of May featuring artist Linda Hyong.
Linda Hyong's belief is that the Western and Eastern cultures are currently connected. It is one of her goals to create works that enable this connection between Western and Eastern cultures. She was fortunate to grow up in a multicultural background, since her family immigrated to the US. Hyong's work illustrates the unlimited creations of traditional and contemporary life combined with today’s technology. Often times, she combines her observations of the four seasons, and paints colorful, imaginative objects of nature. She's tried to create images that express her own interpretation of impressionism used in contemporary art that shows a peaceful landscape linking our community-to-community and country-to-country. She's been working with low-toxicity mix media including oil, watercolor, gouache, acrylic, and oriental ink. Her early art influences were derived from Robert Motherwell by the significance of large canvas with massive brushwork and Claude Monet and his waterlily garden.
