Kong Ho utilizes his bicultural background as a teaching artist trained in both Chinese and Western visual art to teach as art professor at various universities (2001-2018). Ho received a Fulbright U.S. Scholarship to teach mural in Bulgaria in 2010. He has focused on his “Luminosity Series” painting since 2016. Sumptuously painted in a technique consisting of free-flowing wave-like patterns held in check by subtly controlled washes of glaze and exacting trompe l’oeil floras and shells, his floral-spiral paintings exemplify the theme and style indicative of his ongoing body of work, the “Luminosity Series.” In his recent series, Ho has created an asymmetrical composition by off-setting the circular shapes of the primary spiral of
the nautilus shell and the floral image, against the angular edges of the squared off canvas.

Further interest is added to the composition through the articulation of the nautilus shell’s segments and the structure of flora. He achieves a feeling of dramatic motion by obliterating portions of his ornately patterned objects by merging them with a background of rippling draping and floating seashells. His composition is supported by a dense spatial field of interpreted interactions of forms and patterns found in nature. These patterns include repetitive clusters of meandering lines and portioned color filled areas that suggest ambiguous space. Rhythmic movement is created from a simultaneous growth and dissolution of both shell and flora with the background. A sense of fundamental transformation for which no beginning and end can be discovered evolves from his work.

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