‘The Burden’ by MadebyEnger

Artist: MadebyEnger
Title: ‘The Burden’
Medium: Acrylic on wood panel
Dimensions: 18″ x 12″
Framing: Unframed
Year of Creation: 2023

NOTE: This piece was available to purchase as part of our ‘Monochromagic 6’ show, which ran between 7th – 28th July 2023. If you would like to inquire about its current availability, please email sales@wowxwow.com and we will be delighted to assist.

Description

‘The Burden’ by MadebyEnger

Artist: MadebyEnger
Title: ‘The Burden’
Medium: Acrylic on wood panel
Dimensions: 18″ x 12″
Framing: Unframed
Year of Creation: 2023

About the Artwork:

The words you whisper turn into the dreams I dream which become indiscernible from reality. Are these my dreams or your dreams?

About the Artist:

(Artist Bio)

John Eng(er) Cheng (a.k.a. MadebyEnger) is an artist and designer currently living in Southern California. He is a lifelong creator and maker experimenting in a variety of processes, including printmaking, silk screening, drawing, painting, molds making, and photography. Anything that allows him to bring an idea to life.

Primarily through the use acrylics and gouache, he creates paintings that explore and process themes and ideas such as the relationship between humans and objects and their desire to collect; the combination of fantasy and reality, or dream spaces; and identity — his role as a son/husband/father, his faith, his cultural background, and his insecurities/imperfection.

Armor is used as a common motif throughout John’s work as an anchor for the ideas that he explores. Armor as protection both physically and psychologically. Armor against hate, generational expectations and harm, cultural expectations, spiritual belief systems, and self judgement. And at the end of it all, what the lack of armor could imply.