“Midnight (2018) moves between inky darkness and translucent light, with an absence of form privileging the act of mark making and seeming to define the work’s positive and negative spaces. ”

“Navigating Malachite (2018) alludes somewhat more overtly to a landscape-like horizon, while remaining defined principally by the rich color of the work’s title. Together, however, the two works suggest a slippage between image and illusion, each enriching the other’s ambiguity through the primacy of gesture. ”

“Singapore-based Tan studied traditional Chinese painting as a corollary to her primary education in Western art, and later began extensive travels to remote Scandinavia, including to the Arctic Circle. There, in the ever-present horizon near the North Pole, she noticed affinities between the Romantic sublime and the spare aesthetics of Chinese landscapes, and created a visual vocabulary that connects her experience in two seemingly dissonant places.”