AFTERGLOW
Artist : Chayanich Muangthai Seafear
Duration :  14 July – 26 August 2023

 

 

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Technique : Acrylic on canvas mounted on plastwood board
Size : 15 x 15 cm
Year : 2023

 

 

Title : Untitled
Technique : Acrylic on canvas mounted on plastwood board
Size : 15 x 15 cm
Year : 2023

 

 

Title : Untitled
Technique : Acrylic on canvas mounted on plastwood board
Size : 15 x 15 cm
Year : 2023

 

Title : Untitled
Technique : Acrylic on canvas mounted on plastwood board
Size : 20 x 25 cm
Year : 2023

 

Title : Untitled
Technique : Acrylic on canvas mounted on plastwood board
Size : 20 x 25 cm
Year : 2023

 

Title : Untitled
Technique : Acrylic on canvas mounted on plastwood board
Size : 20 x 25 cm
Year : 2023

 

Title : Untitled
Technique : Acrylic on canvas mounted on plastwood board
Size : 20 x 25 cm
Year : 2023

 

 

Title : Thorns
Technique : Acrylic on linen mounted on plastwood board
Size : 25 x 20 cm
Year : 2023

 

Title : Untitled
Technique : Acrylic on linen mounted on plastwood board
Size : 20 x 25 cm
Year : 2023

 

 

Title : Untitled
Technique : Acrylic on linen mounted on plastwood board
Size : 25 x 20 cm
Year : 2022

 

Title : Untitled
Technique : Acrylic on linen mounted on plastwood board
Size : 30 x 40 cm
Year : 2023

 

Title : Spider web in sunlight
Technique : Acrylic on linen mounted on plastwood board
Size : 30 x 40 cm
Year : 2022

 

 

Title : Untitled
Technique : Acrylic on linen mounted on plastwood board
Size : 20 x 25 cm
Year : 2023

 

 

Title : Untitled
Technique : Acrylic on linen mounted on plastwood board
Size : 20 x 25 cm
Year : 2023

 

Title : Untitled
Technique : Acrylic on canvas mounted on plastwood board
Size : 20 x 25 cm
Year : 2023

 

Title : Untitled
Technique : Acrylic on canvas mounted on plastwood board
Size : 20 x 25 cm
Year : 2023

 

Title : Untitled
Technique : Acrylic on canvas mounted on plastwood board
Size : 20 x 25 cm
Year : 2023

 

Title : Your flowers
Technique : Acrylic on linen mounted on plastwood board
Size : 50 x 60 cm
Year : 2023

 

Title : Melt away
Technique : Acrylic on linen mounted on plastwood board
Size : 50 x 60 cm
Year : 2023

 

Title : Pink petals
Technique : Acrylic on linen mounted on plastwood board
Size : 50 x 60 cm
Year : 2023

 

 

Title : Afterglow
Technique : Acrylic on canvas mounted on plastwood board
Size : 90 x 80 cm
Year : 2023

 

 

Title : Untitled
Technique : Acrylic on linen mounted on plastwood board
Size : 90 x 80 cm
Year : 2023

 

 

Title : Untitled
Technique : Acrylic on linen mounted on plastwood board
Size : 90 x 80 cm
Year : 2023

AFTERGLOW : light of memories
          Afterglow (n.) –         1.  The light that remains in the sky after sunset
                                         2.  The good feeling that remains after a happy event 

          AFTERGLOW is the 7th solo painting exhibition by Chayanich Muangthai, an artist who never stops seeking aesthetics in different colors and shapes in her own way. This new series of work present the light and memories that we all have experienced. Chayanich recalls the last light of the day remaining in the sky. Even though there is little light left, it can still make her see colors on scenery and objects before everything is shrouded in darkness.
          The visual image is a phenomenon that arises from the relationship between the amount of light in each spectrum as well as the absorption and reflection of the object surface at the incident light angle. In the evening when the sun is fading, the brightness and temperature of the hues affecting the landscape and objects in the foreground also change.  
          The last light of the day reveals some colors from the corners of objects that we never thought existed. The last light gradually makes the image we see to reduce its color bit by bit, second by second, until everything becomes black as one with darkness. The artist captures memories from various corners of the house, trees, flowers, spider webs, before and after dusk, to express through her paintings.
          Chayanich presents her work in the AFTERGLOW exhibition in the size of her house window and photos in the photo album to compare the visual experience that the eye sees and images that are recorded momentarily. She arranges these works in descending order of their saturation to explain the changes observed between day and night.
          In other words, AFTERGLOW is a metaphor for changes in light compared to the flow of memories. Memories are not static. When we experience anything in the beginning, we often choose to remember what impressed us. As such, happiness and sadness are the variables that make us remember some things more vividly than others. However, when the influence of those feelings diminished, details that are different from the original memories will be revealed. Having learned by opening her senses to nature’s evening phenomena, Chayanich realizes that we all crave for something special – material possessions, love, relationship, and ambition – that we think is not there yet. However, indeed, those things may already be with us if only we open our minds to explore everything around us.

Voravuj Sujjaporamest

ชญานิษฐ์  ม่วงไทย
CHAYANICH  MUANGTHAI
Bangkok. (1987)

E-MAIL : chayanichmuangthai@gmail.com
Tel : +66876977028
Instagram: _seafear_

Education 
2006 – 2010   Bachelor of Fine Arts (Graphic Art), First class honors, Silpakorn  University, Bangkok, Thailand
2012 – 2015    Master of Fine Arts (visual Arts), Silpakorn University, Bangkok,Thailand
SoloExhibitions
2023     AS BIG AS THE SUN, Hatch Art Project, Singapore.
2022     Where We Belong, at Xspace Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand.
2020     Double Rainbow, at VS Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand.
2014     Swallow…The Love, at ARDEL Gallery of Modern Art, Bangkok,  Thailand.
2013      Burnt Heart, at Galerie N, Bangkok, Thailand.
2011      Black and I, at DOB GALLERY, Bangkok, Thailand.

 

DuetExhibitions
2014     Me, at The Meeting Room Art Gallery, Chiang Mai, Thailand.
Exhibitions
2023   –  SUPHAN’s Echoes, at 1984+1 Gallery, Supan Buri, Thailand.
           –  BLOSSOM BODIES, at AVANI+ RIVERSIDE BANGKOK, Thailand.
           –  Abstract:Expressions, Interpretations and Connections, at ATTA Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand.
           –  RISE OF PRIDE, at Mango Art Festival 2023, Bangkok, Thailand.
           –  A KIND OF BLUE, Hatch Art Project, Singapore.
           –  √2 (Square Root of 2), Hatch Art Project, Singapore.
2022   – Meet Me At The Horizon, at 333Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand.
2021   – Painting X, at XSPACE art Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand.
           – Polyjuice, at XSPACE art Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand.
2020   – REVIVED EMOTIONS, at Ratchadamnoen Contemporary Art Center, Bangkok, Thailand.
2019   – Independent Soul, at Duke Contemporary Art Space, Bangkok,Thailand.
           – Introspective: What We Paint About When We Talk About Painting by Saturday Painters, at Artist+Run gallery, Bangkok, Thailand.
2017   –    In the Shadow, at Bridge Art Space, Bangkok, Thailand.
2016   –    8th International Printmaking Biennial Douro 2016, at Douro Museum,Portugal.
           –    Songkran 2016 Bangkok Symbolic, at Central Embassy, Bangkok,Thailand.
2015   –    Tribuna Graphic, at the Art Museum of Cluj, Cluj, Romania.
           –    2nd Global Print 2015, at Douro Museum, Portugal.
           –    30th asropa International art exhibition, at SANTAROSA gallery, Gunsan, South Korea.
2014   –    Graphics World-Thailand, Malaysia, Singapore, at the International Centre of Graphic Arts in Kraków,Kraków, Poland.
           –     Proof, at Chamchuri art Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand.
           –     Cubic Museum, at The Art Centre Silpakorn University, Bangkok,Thailand.
2013   –      4th Guanlan International Print Biennial 2013, Guanlan Original Printmaking Base, Shenzhen, China.
            –     Little Big Prints, at PSG Art Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand.
2012    –     The 3 rd Bangkok Triennale International Print and Drawing Exhibition,at Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Bangkok, Thailand.
            –     58th National Exhibition of ART, at The National Gallery of Thailand, Bangkok, Thailand.
            –     The 1st Novosibirsk International Triennial of contemporary Graphic Art 2012, Novosibirsk State Museum, Russia.
            –     2012 International Women Arts Exhibition Lights of women, Gwangju Museum of Arts Kumnam-ro Wing, Metro Gallery, South Korea. 
            –     Infinity Print, at Brown Sugar Jazz Boutigue, Bangkok, Thailand.
2010    –     Refraction of Voice, at Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Bangkok,Thailand.
            –     Sound Confusion, at Chiang Mai City Arts and Cultural Centre,Chaing Mai, Thailand.
            –     Smallery Art Exhibition, at Ardel’s Third Place Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand.
            –     Printing from The Past: Surrounding of Sukhothai Kingdom, at DOB Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand.
2009    –     X BIENNAL INTERNACIONAL DE GRAVAT JOSEP DE RIBERA” XÀTIVA, Spain.
            –     The 10th of Art Artists Silpakorn, at Art Gallery of Silpakorn University, Nakron pathom, Thailand.
            –     Print for You, at PSG Art Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand.   
 PRIZES & SCHOLARSHIPS
2012    –      Purchase Prize at the 3 rd  Bangkok Triennal International Print and  Drawing Exhibition
2011    –      Distinguished Prize, 2 Dimension field from Young Thai Artist Award By SCG Foundation
                    –  Commendation Prize from the 28th Exhibition of Contemporary Art by Young Artists
                    –  Second Prize of the 23th Toshiba “Brings Good Things to Life” Art Competition, Bangkok
                    –  Action to participate EXPERIMENTAL PRINTMAKING Online projects by                    http://www.experimentalproject.ro/, Romania.
2010    –      Scholarship from the Bhumibol Scholarship for Education Fund category.
                    –  Scholarship from Chakrabhand Posayakrit
Art Fairs
2022    –   Hotel Art Fair, at The Standard Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand.
2022    –   Mango Art Festival, at River City, Bangkok, Thailand.
2021    –   Mango Art Festival, at Lhong1919, Bangkok, Thailand.
2018    –   STYLE Bitec, at Bangkok International Trade & Exhibition Centre, Bangkok, Thailand.