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Chaco Terada
Wall Canvas 1

2020

$1,800
£1,374.18
€1,611.30
CA$2,594.64
A$2,649.23
CHF 1,493.71
MX$32,139.92
NOK 17,930.87
SEK 17,816.44
DKK 12,045.75

About the Item

Valley House Gallery recently presented "Listening in the Silence" — our first solo exhibition of work by Chaco Terada, a native of Japan who has called Dallas home since 1992. Born in Toyama, Japan, in 1963, Chaco began the practice of calligraphy with her father, Yhohei Terada, a master calligrapher who taught its history at Toyama University. Even as a child, Chaco departed from a strict observance of copying traditional form for a more poetic interpretation. As she says, "I looked at the calligraphy from all sides and even from the back with light showing through it. It was beautiful to me. My father corrected my work with orange sumi ink. I liked the visual element, missing altogether the point of his corrections." Living as an independent spirit began early in Chaco’s life. Moving to the United States liberated Chaco, giving her the freedom to focus on her inner life as a source for artistic expression. Her work became a process of self-analysis, a process that allowed her to draw from her experiences, memories, and feelings. All these elements have forged stories in her imagination, stories in which reality and illusion meet. These stories grow quietly into images as she listens to conversations within her mind. An image can have a long journey in her thoughts, sometimes a year, or longer. "It took some years to develop the ways to express the beauty in my life as artwork," says Chaco. When she decided to combine photography with her calligraphy, her partner, the photographer David H. Gibson advised her how to achieve the effects she envisioned. Chaco photographs wherever she goes; it could be nothing in particular, a wall detail, or water on the street. She walks slowly; it is her way to see more. Something from the past connects her to what she sees in the photograph, and her dialogue begins with a string of words. Her recent works are made using the process she developed that incorporates multiple layers of silk organza, sumi ink, mineral pigments, and archival pigment printing. Each is unique. Photographic images are printed on the silk and calligraphic marks float in the layered atmosphere as if they were dancing. They are intimate in scale, like windows to her private reflections, meditative moments that both convey and invite serenity. Each one is an open invitation to go beyond the surface. This is matted in a 20 x 16 inch mat.

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