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With the new body of work included in When Feelings become Form, Tseng traverses the parallel universe contained inside the rectangular shape of a canvas opening up to the narrative embodied in the process of painting.

Letting go of preconceived notions and aesthetic ideals, Tseng embraces a physical approach to the practice. Brushstrokes turn clumsier, surfaces rigidly hard to work with, colors get muddy and canvasses become heavier to handle and move around. The densely impastoed compositions obtain a palpable, organic quality achieved by scratching off stratified surfaces with palette …