GALLERY TWO

Chung (Fanky) Chak, Red Army

Chung (Fanky) Chak
The Boxes Project
March 6 - April 10, 2009

New Jersey-based artist Chung (Fanky) Chak’s exhibit, The Boxes Project, features 60” x 60” digitally manipulated collages depicting hectic urban environments. Chak was born in Hong Kong, and since 1989 has lived in the US in more than ten different places including both big cities and small towns. The boxes project creates a new environment from photographs of thousands of windows taken around the world. Each window, now part of a larger collage, loses its geographical reference. Its origin is no longer relevant as it becomes only a small part of the whole. Chak intends for his work to help break down stereotypes, particularly about the inhabitants of urban environments.

Chung (Fanky) Chak earned an MFA in 1995 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Art at the College of New Jersey. Chak’s work has been exhibited in solo and group shows throughout the US including Selden Gallery, Norfolk, VA; Viewpoint Gallery of Photography, Sacramento, CA; Abrons Arts Center, Henry Street Settlement, New York, NY; Southern Oregon University, Ashland, OR; Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN; and the Society of Contemporary Photography, Kansas City, MO. He has also exhibited his artwork in an online gallery, Plates to Pixel (A Pacific Northwest Centre for Photography Project). Internationally, Chak’s work has been exhibited at the Julia Margaret Cameron Trust, Dimbola Lodge Museum, UK, and at the E&J Gallo Gallery, Hong Kong.