First and Foremosst, here are some of my favorite pieces from Tsherin's website:
Fly High. 2018
All Things Considered. 2014
If Your Happy and you Know it. 2018
I absolutely love the personal family history through witch Tsherin painting! I think it is so cool that his father was a famous traditional Tibetan thangka painter and that he got to learn his skills from him. Understandably, he wanted to break away from the more traditional painting his father had done though and the Spirit Series in the VMFA is a fantastic example of how he is able to blend tradition and modernism with his own style of painting. The most interesting aspect of his work is the series itself though. It is so expansive, well thought out, fully explored and beautiful. The concepts and thought he puts behind each of his pieces is truly impressive. A great example is how he paints traditional Tibetan deity's getting leached of their color and culture, which kind of represents the assimilation of Tibetan folks and their loss of connection to their heritage. Later, he does a series of deity's loosing their "assimilated" look, with the vibrant colors and swirls and patterns of their ancestry coming back to them which shows the empowerment of rediscovery and reconnection to one's heritage.
I would love to one day create a series like this and to have such a significant and meaningful body of work. Seeing Tsherin's paintings really inspires me to find a way to make a series like this, that is so interconnected and interesting with my own subject matter. I also love how seamlessly he blends these archaic and historical deities with modernism and I think the way he titles his pieces further push the interconnection he depicts between the two. I need to figure out a way or a system with which I can do that with my own titles.
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