Altered States: Paintings by Gordon Cheung from the Stéphane Janssen Collection: Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, USA

Arizona State University Art Museum will present the first solo exhibition by British artist Gordon Cheung in a U.S. museum. The ASU Art Museum is recognized for presenting groundbreaking contemporary artists and art forms, often in their first museum exhibition. Cheung’s paintings explore our world in fantastic landscapes. He combines collage, Japanese ink brushwork, photographic transfers, oil and spray paint on top of stock listings from the distinctively pink London Financial Times; the contrast of Cheung’s images with streams of numbers seem to predict the recent global financial crisis. The exhibition will also present four new video works by the artist. Cheung was born in London in 1975 to Chinese parents and earned his MA from the Royal College of Art in 2001. He currently lives and works in London.