Emily Cheng

Emily Cheng (born 1953 in New York) is a Chinese-American artist with heritage roots in the Philippines, known for radiantly colored, radially composed paintings that combine the polished riffs of post-abstraction with bits of decorative patterns or schematized lotus designs. The paintings' translucent colors and delicate linear fragments seem to levitate before the eyes, as if bits of Chinese ceramics or embroidery were drifting through layers of folded, colored air.