Chin-Huang TAI's Chromatic Dreams series

Curatorial Statement

Chromatic Dreams presents a constellation of seventeen abstract works that navigate the thresholds between vision, memory, and sensation. Each painting becomes a terrain where color is not simply pigment, but energy—an elemental force capable of shaping perception and unmooring the viewer from the ordinary flow of time.

The series unfolds as a journey through intensities: from the searing force of Scarlet Storm to the hushed gravity of Celestial Abyss. The canvases pulse with molten hues, fractured horizons, and luminous voids, echoing the restless dynamism of a world in flux. In their abstraction, these works resist definitive meaning, instead opening space for viewers to experience their own internal landscapes mirrored in paint.

What binds the series together is its deliberate embrace of the cinematic—each painting suggests not a static object but a frame lifted from a greater unfolding drama. The viewer becomes witness to a narrative without words, where chromatic gestures stand in for voices, and silence acquires weight.

The paintings are positioned as fragments of a dream-world: simultaneously intimate and cosmic, ephemeral and monumental. Chromatic Dreams thus belongs as much to the lineage of modern abstraction as to the contemporary quest for immersive, affective experience.

Standing before these works is to stand at the edge of sensation itself—where color becomes event, form becomes energy, and painting becomes a portal into the boundless architectures of imagination.