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May 2010 is our month long exhibition in Hong Kong's SOTA Gallery. This series of abstracts of heritage listed buildings on both sides of the equator. This new series creates dialogue about the heritage of two cities on opposite sides of the globe struggling with the same challenging problem of holding onto our heritage listed buildings. Most concerning to me as an artist is that while many people value the structures which built our societies, others demand to tear them down in order to maximize a financial return on that piece of land. We must protect these structure for future generations, they hold great value in creating interest in our cultures and history. Much like the Pyramids or Parthenon, people travel great distances to see these rare sights which will slowly disappear if we don't continue to place importance on them. When government struggles with population growth, the temptation to allow developers permission to remove these memories from our landscape is significant. We must appreciate these icons of our culture, their textures, the stories behind them and embrace what they can mean to us today and in the future.  From the creative point of view the buildings stand almost as opposing structures, or reflections. Portraying the similarities between cultures whilst separated by a virtual equator through the center of each piece. It gives the viewer the opportunity to consider how these structures in Hong Kong and Brisbane share so many things in common but are so dramatically far apart. Human nature often is a journey of finding people just like us, no matter where we are on earth. We are drawn together by how we look, talk, think and feel. And so on these canvas artworks, I am drawing together how our cultures can be drawn together, and how enjoying this art with each other, we are drawn together even though we can be so very different. 2009
Press Release Immediate release in Hong Kong 24 Jul 2009 “Traveling across Boundaries” @ Gallery by the Harbour Painting by Megan Aroon Duncanson & Steven Dix Exhibition Period : 19th Sept ~ 7th Oct 2009 Venue : Gallery by the Harbour, Shop 207 (next to Fendi), Level 2, Ocean Center, Harbour City Gallery hours : Mon ~ Sun : 11:00am ~ 9:00pm Fee: Free of charge Boundaries seem to define our world. It takes a courageous traveler to step forward and break the line that has been confining imagination; and it takes a courageous artist to break the rigid norms and show us a new way of appreciating the world. Through their paintings, they have shown us that the world, in fact, has no boundary. State-of-the-Arts Gallery & Gallery by the Harbour is delighted to present a joint exhibition of two bold and creative contemporary artists, Megan Aroon Duncanson from Alaska and Steven Dix from Australia, in September. In this exhibition, our gallery hopes to offer a new angle to look at our seemingly contradictory world. The two artists, although born and raised in very different places and culture, have one thing in common – a passion for landscape and cityscape. Landscape and cityscape may not go together when you first hear this, however, Duncanson and Dix have demonstrated in their paintings that you can love both and the two can co-exist. Megan Duncanson, who was born and raised in Alaska, adopts a bold style featuring some cubism and surrealism. Her confident use of bright and passionate colors conveys a sense of natural instincts, rooted in her childhood memories of living in a small fishing village. Duncanson is also able to blend in what she saw as the world evolves. In her warm-colored paintings, we can see the city living right beside of the nature, it being the sea, the trees or the burning sun. Steven Dix, who was raised in the warm sunlight of Australia, is known by the earthy color and rustic texture of his paintings. Using these natural elements as a basis, Dix portrays both city and nature in vigorous brushstrokes and hazy lines. In the paintings of these two masters, not only is the nature alive, but cities and buildings can also be as lively and warm. State-of-the-Arts Gallery hopes you would enjoy the journey in a world that merges cityscape and landscape. 2009年7月24日 
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