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Three Thresholds
 

The word threshold has always felt more like sensation than structure to me—something you don’t quite see until you step across it. It isn’t fixed or measurable, but it shifts around you like air when you get close to something that moves you. That’s how I began to understand this exhibition.

I didn’t start with a theme. I didn’t try to force a common language onto these three artists. Instead, I waited—watched how their works unfolded, how they held space, how they asked to be seen. Slowly, what emerged wasn’t a shared style or subject, but three distinct modes of perception. One moves inward: abstract, rhythmic, attuned to the breath of emotion. Another pulses outward, vivid and layered, engaging memory, community, and inherited myth. The third drifts in and out of reality, with figures that seem imagined but feel familiar—like echoes from a dream you only half-remember.

Rather than merging these approaches, I’ve placed them side by side. Not to compare, but to let them watch one another. To let them form a space where difference doesn’t divide, but resonates. Because in life—as in art—we rarely experience things as neatly unified. More often, we are crossing between states: between self and other, thought and feeling, here and elsewhere.

Three Thresholds is an invitation to pause at those crossings. To pay attention to how we perceive, how we respond, and how, in looking, we might begin to see ourselves—again.

IVY WU

Ivy wu was born in Shanghai in 1981, she immigrated to the United States in 2013. She holds an MFA in Painting from the Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD), where she was twice awarded the SCAD Honor Scholarship and received the Helen Seydel Memorial Scholarship (ACA). She was also the recipient of the top prize, the Spirit Award, at the 39th SCAD Sidewalk Arts Festival.

 

Wu is a professional painter and currently serves as an Assistant Professor at Kennesaw State University in Georgia, where she teaches painting, color theory, and 2D art. She is also a juried member of the National Association of Women Artists (NAWA). Her work has been exhibited at Hollis Taggart Gallery in Chelsea, New York, and she has held solo and two-person exhibitions at Gallery 100 and FreeMarket Gallery in Atlanta. In 2023, she was selected for “AAPI Talents, Rise and Thrive,” an exhibition of outstanding Asian American artists hosted at the Coca-Cola Headquarters, and participated in the 6th Biennial at the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia (MOCA GA). Wu currently lives and works in Atlanta.

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Photo: Exhibition site

IVY WU
ONE CALL WITH SAKURA , 2023
acrylic on canvas
152 x 121cm

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IVY WU
PINK SO JU(STARWBER), 2023

 acrylic on canvas
61 x 51 cm

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IVY WU
ORANGE BEER IN HAGEN, 2023
acrylic on canvas
122 x 140cm

IVY WU

HOLD ON TO ME 1, 2023

acrylic on canvas

50 x 50cm

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Photo: Exhibition site

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Meng Donglai

Meng Donglai was born in 1994 in Dalian, China, she is a painter and mixed media artist currently based in the Netherlands. She received her BA from the Rome University of Fine Arts in Italy and earned her Master’s degree from the AKV St. Joost School of Visual Culture in Den Bosch, the Netherlands. In 2020, she was awarded the Emerging Artist Grant from the Mondriaan Fund, followed by a project grant from the same institution in 2021.

 

Meng’s work is rooted in a deep interest in psychoanalysis and investigates the liminal space between lived experience and the subconscious. She explores the phenomenon of “immersive daydreaming,” using it as a thread to weave through ideas of urban space, memory, and the body. Her recurring character—the “Hairy-Legged Figure”—acts as a bridge across meanings: absurd and playful, but also a cultural symbol that questions body norms, gendered expectations, and freedom. It is both a projection of the self and a subtle act of rebellion, light in tone yet layered in intent.

MENG DONGLAI

(25.0460319, 121.5113003) TAIPEI TAIWAN, 2023

oil on canvas

60 x 73cm

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MENG DONGLAI

BAIDU MAP PANORAMA -SOMEWHERE IN LUOHU DISTRICT, SHENZHEN) 

oil on canvas

80 x 60cm

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MENG DONGLAI

(-2.6232058,29.7419834) RWANDA

oil on canvas

120 x 100cm

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Souleymane Konate

Souleymane KonateBorn was born in Côte d’Ivoire in 1983, he lives and works in Abidjan. From a young age, he was drawn to art—often visiting museums, galleries, and exhibitions in Abidjan as a teenager, where he formed close relationships with artists and began his journey into the creative field.

 

In the early 2000s, he began to study and practice art in earnest, painting alongside other artists in shared studios. His work breaks free from classical traditions, embracing vivid, high-contrast colors and diverse techniques to depict scenes inspired by urban life around him. Konate has exhibited in cities including Abidjan, Dakar, Marrakech, Geneva, London, Paris, and Washington, D.C. His work is included in the private collection of King Mohammed VI of Morocco.

SOULEYMANE KONATE

LAMOUSSA, 2023

acrylic on cavans

100 x 80cm

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SOULEYMANE KONATE

BLESSINGS , 2024

acrylic on cavans

140 x 120cm

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SOULEYMANE KONATE

MOONLIGHT, 2024

acrylic on cavans

250 x 150cm

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