Chinese-American contemporary spiritual artist Fung Cheung paints dreams, visions and psychedelic experience onto found mirrors in a solo show at Nepenthes New York, making the invisible spiritual dimension directly visible in the physical world.
Every mirror Fung Cheung paints on is a found one. The decision is deliberate: rather than buying surfaces to work on, he lets the universe decide what his canvas will look like. That quality of openness, of playing with what arrives rather than controlling what is there from the start, runs through the whole practice.
Mirror Mirror, Fung’s solo show at Nepenthes New York on West 38th Street, brings together paintings on found mirrors that project his dreams, visions and psychedelic experiences onto a surface that already carries the world within it.
“The reflection creates this dynamic, ever-changing surface of the environment it’s in,” he says. “To me, spirituality is ever-present. It’s like an invisible layer upon the physical dimension, and I tried to visualize it through my art.”
Painting on mirrors became the method for doing exactly that: bringing the invisible directly into the visible, not by describing it but by placing it where the world is already reflected back to itself.
The works in the show include A Ritual with the Sisters of Fate, Goddess’ Gift, Spirit Animal Bear, Spirit Animals Wolves and Dragon Guardians, each one an entry point into personal myth-making rooted in what Fung describes as the universal collective consciousness. His practice began after a profound supernatural experience at the Teotihuacan pyramids, which opened a deep engagement with spirituality that now spans painting, murals, prints, animation, installation and experiential art.
“We are living our own personal myth, unique to each of us,” he says. “It’s up to us to recognize and accept that. Believe in magic.”
The hope behind the work is generous: that sharing his own spiritual experiences with others will reinforce their own, wherever those lead.
Fung Cheung is a Chinese-American contemporary spiritual artist based in New York City. His practice is unified by a single purpose: to nourish and uplift the human spirit.
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Mirror Mirror, solo exhibition, Nepenthes New York, 307 W 38th St, NYC. Works: A Ritual with the Sisters of Fate, Goddess’ Gift, Spirit Animal Bear, Spirit Animals Wolves, Dragon Guardians. Acrylic on found mirrors. Photography: Danny Lim (@dannny.lim).
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