The Curiosities In Gifting and Receiving exhibition encapsulates artist George Ho’s painting over the period of 2023-25.

The exhibition includes two series of paintings, Curiosities In Gifting and Receiving (2023) and Alchemy of Time (2025). In his Artist’s Statement he noted that his creative approach began to germinate in 2018 with The Indefinite Reveal series, for which he first employed the use of sheets of Lutradur, large non-woven polyester material. After pre-visualization and -planning, he began painting randomly on the canvas, not only working with no set topics or motifs, but making sure to prevent any pre-conceived consciousness from manifesting, so as to permit free rotation of the canvas and the painting in any direction. The translucent quality of the polyester fiber surface renders visible the cumulative traces of the act of painting - brushwork, color, line, and stroke - while the application of paint remains consistently thin, producing a luminous, layered effect.

George Ho practices to encompass the capture of the moment, expression, cutting, and synthesis of a flowing sense of time, with each series representing the outcome of a sustained painting process. From the viewer’s perspective, the progression from Curiosities to The Alchemy of Time reflects an ongoing interplay of temporal fragments, shattering the constraints of linear time. Ho stressed that for him artistic creation is a “performance of energy”. These paintings express the purest colors, forms, brushstrokes, and compositional spaces to bring about the dynamic flow of energy.