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Nylon
09-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Nylon
The Private Museum celebrates SG60 with an exhibition that honours love and legacy between artists Chua Mia Tee & Lee Boon Ngan
A common misconception that we have about art in Singapore is how we often look at it as something superficial that either reflects a person's societal status, or is used as a decorative measure to elevate the ambience of a location. This belief is largely due to the typical monetary value of art pieces that make them seem more of a luxury to have than the necessity to own. Hoping to change the perception of how Singaporeans view art, the Private Museum is looking to offer an alternative perspective to art with its latest exhibition to celebrate Singapore's 60th birthday — The Art of Lee Boon Ngan: Celebrating 60 Years of Singapore through the Love of Chua Mia Tee & Lee Boon Ngan. Image courtesy of Chua Mia Tee and the Chua Family. This landmark exhibition strives to honour the love and legacy between two Singaporeans who have dedicated their lives to art and the nation, focusing on Lee Boon Ngan who became an artist in her own right as she remained the steadfast and quiet strength of the family as a mother and wife to Cultural Medallion recipient Chua Mia Tee; who is widely recognised for his contributions to Singapore's national visual identity through his realist paintings. Featuring rarely seen portraits of their children and grandchildren, the exhibition is a poignant tribute to dedication and resilience, offering a biographical window into the private world of a family bound by art. My Grandchild, Ernestine (2017) by Chua Mia Tee from the collection of Chua Mia Tee and the Chua Family. Speaking to NYLON Singapore, Ernestine Chua who is the granddaughter of the artists and an artist in her own right, shared that while she had interests in different art mediums as a kid, it was also the 'great luxury' that she had of having artists in her home that eventually got her started on her path as an artist. 'My grandparents were very warm and welcoming about the way they spoke and created art, and there was never a pressure on me as a kid to produce art,' she said. 'I think that this environment really fostered the interest in art and why I took it on a higher education level because I started off with such a healthy and welcoming way to sort of explore art in different mediums.' On the left: Still-life (Fruits) (2014) by Lee Boon Ngan, On the right: Fruits (2014) by Ernestine Chua. Both from the collection of Chua Mia Tee and the Chua Family. This open and nurturing experience between Ernestine and her grandparents led her to easily adopt the fundamentals of art without feeling like she had to attend a class, and motivated her to create various types of art, including her very first oil painting at age 15, which she had done together with her grandmother in the studio. It was also during this moment when something her grandmother said went on to become a form of mantra whenever she worked on a project. 'It was when she said, the most important part of painting is when you mix and choose your colours in the palette before you touch brush to canvas,' said Ernestine. This advice from her grandmother was something that stuck with Ernestine and heavily influenced the way she painted and the way that she would add colours, layered on heavily, without taking anything away or even blending them with gradients. A recent artwork of her grandparents by Ernestine Chua. She explained, 'I think it sort of stemmed from the way the both of them paint with such precision and their choice of colour were very calculated on the palette before they went onto canvas.' Even though Ernestine may not dabble in the fine arts per se, having gone to school for illustration and visual media, she still finds a way to incorporate her grandparents' art styles into her art form, by appreciating colour like they would, and utilising the fundamentals she learned from them to translate 3D to 2D art and vice versa. The exhibition brings together a selection of both grandparents' artworks showcasing Chua Mia Tee's renowned landscape painting and portraits of public figures, and Lee Boon Ngan's exquisite flower paintings. When asked what her favourite pieces were from her grandparents, Ernestine was quick to point out her grandmother's pink peonies and her grandfather's portrait of her grandmother as the two that she would 'hound' her family about all the time. Peonies (1995) by Lee Boon Ngan from the collection of Chua Mia Tee and the Chua Family. This was largely due to the fact that both art pieces used to be familiar sights she would see around the house. The pink peonies used to sit over the family's dining table while the portrait of her grandmother had sat at the top of the stairs. 'Every memory I have of the house has a minimum of three paintings in the peripheral or in the background. So, those two paintings in particular are what I have a grip on,' she said. But, aside from the sentimental value, Ernestine sees those two artworks as pieces that represents quite a few of her grandparents' strengths. 'My grandmother was very meticulous with the way she painted and you can see a lot of different representations of the peony petals in shapes and tones,' said Ernestine. While she claims that she is 'bias' when it comes to her grandfather's portrait of her grandmother, she explained that it was because it was an 'very understated' but yet a comfortable painting of her grandmother doing her own art. My Wife (1980) by Chua Mia Tee from the collection of Chua Mia Tee and the Chua Family. It was also a form of photographic moment of her grandmother. 'Like me, my grandmother didn't to be photographed but my grandfather had so many paintings of her in such natural, candid positions that I never felt like I missed out on any photographs.' From glimpses of their shared studio space to works that speak of everyday affection, the exhibition harmonises two monumental figures and foregrounds the often invisible labour of love behind art too, reminding us that it is not always about the grand gestures but also the tender, often uncelebrated choices that shape lives and legacies. When asked what she hoped visitors will take away from the exhibition, Ernestine said: 'I'm very happy that there's a strong focus on my grandmother because she very much drove the car in raising us. As meticulous as she was in her practice, she was in life as well as raising us as children, so I hope people would consider her work a little more.'
Yahoo
15-05-2025
- Yahoo
Grandmother of murder victim urges end to gun violence after tragic shooting
The grandmother of a murder victim is speaking out against gun violence after her grandson was killed in northwest Charlotte Monday night. She spoke with Channel 9's Hunter Saenz about the final memory she shared with him. CMPD: Homicide under investigation in northwest Charlotte Ernestine Steele said the day before her grandson Alvin Steele's death, he dropped by her house with a card for Mother's Day. She said it was a memory she now has to cherish and hold onto dearly. 'As a person, Alvin was loving. He loved animals, and he loved people. He was very loving, always respectful,' Ernestine said. On May 12, Alvin's life came to a tragic end at a motel on Lucky Penny Street. According to court documents, his girlfriend found him shot multiple times in his room, covered by a sheet and pillow. Investigators said Tyler Minor, who was staying with the Alvin, called 911 and said he shot his friend. Minor's father then tried to turn him in, but he jumped out of his car on the way to the police station. He was arrested on Wednesday and charged with murder. Police said the incident was sparked because of a girl. However, Alvin's grandmother said she couldn't make sense of this. 'Just put the guns down, you know. If we have grievances, try to talk. Try to go to somebody, but we've got to put the guns down. I mean, we're killing everybody,' said Ernestine. Ernestine said Alvin leaves behind two young daughters. Meanwhile, the suspect in this case was given no bond on Thursday after facing a judge. VIDEO: Homicide under investigation in northwest Charlotte
San Francisco Chronicle
05-05-2025
- Entertainment
- San Francisco Chronicle
A case for ‘Crumbs From the Table of Joy' as a great American play
History doesn't happen in great sea changes above our heads. It's whether one Black family decides to migrate north. It's which stranger you let talk to you on the train. And in 'Crumbs From the Table of Joy,' it's which ideas and experiences a girl hears over the breakfast table in her humble Brooklyn apartment — and how they inflect what she sees as possible for herself. Lynn Nottage's 1995 play about a postwar Great Migration family, whose Aurora Theatre Company production opened Thursday, May 1, could have been written today. Grieving widower Godfrey (David Everett Moore) is in thrall to a charlatan spiritualist, making excuses whenever his great leader doesn't deliver on promises. Communist Party footsoldier Aunt Lily Ann (Asia Nicole Jackson), taking it upon herself to move in with her brother-in-law and take care of his girls, keeps urging the family to unshackle themselves from servile capitalist ideology. As for her own joblessness, she says, 'Nobody wants to hire a smart colored woman.' And when daughters Ernestine (Anna Marie Sharpe) and Ermina (Jamella Cross) suddenly get a new stepmother in Gerte (Carrie Paff), a white German expat scarred by wartime privation and chaos, the conversations between her and Lily Ann feel startlingly 2025. They play the oppression olympics. They debate Gerte's assertion that 'When I see you I see no color' and just how much the world will allow any person of color to achieve — professionally, romantically. But it's never philosophical or abstract; it's grounded in romantic jealousy and insecurity that tick like a time bomb. Elizabeth Carter's production can feel a little stagey and clumsy sometimes. Some monologues that are supposed to be devastating have all the humanity of a foghorn, and light cues practically galumph in and out. But watch Sharpe and Cross as the two sisters. In physical comedy, Cross — one of the Bay Area's rising stars — has the precision of a gymnast or a figure skater. Slithering away from the singeing clutches of Lily Ann's hot iron comb, she makes the inanimate object into an enemy snake; each fresh crackle of burning hair is an escalating battle in that war known to every child: between common sense and adults' incomprehensible whims. And Sharpe makes Ernestine the poetic, impressionable sort who gulps down experience with her eyes and lets it suffuse her being. As the play's narrator, she gives Nottage's intricate, redolent text an easy buoyancy, trotting out lines like 'I want to go someplace where folks don't come home sullied by anger' with a winsome earnestness that makes the highfalutin natural. If there's an old-fashioned discursiveness to the script — it's the kind of play that feels like it ends three times over — Nottage constructs such a multilayered, expansive world that she earns the right to linger on the theatrical equivalent of sustains and fermatas. Here, the microcosm and the macrocosm are the same: The question of whether social change comes from revolution or everyday individual choices somehow equates to one girl's choice between following the humdrum path her father has paved for her or imagining something more.
Yahoo
15-04-2025
- General
- Yahoo
Ernestine Hall, Youngstown, Ohio
YOUNGSTOWN, Ohio (MyValleyTributes) – Mrs. Ernestine Hall, 90, formerly of Youngstown, Ohio transitioned peacefully to her heavenly mansion on Wednesday, April 2, 2025 surrounded by her loving family at the Avalon Health and Rehabilitation Center in Newnan, Georgia We celebrate the beautiful life of Ernestine Hall with hearts full of love and gratitude, her spirit touched everyone she met. Mrs. Hall was born August 21, 1934 in Asheville, North Carolina to Ernest and Mable Toland. She spent most of her life in Youngstown, Ohio and later moved to Atlanta where she enjoyed her golden years. Find obituaries from your high school She was a devoted mother to her children (Marlene, Denise (John) ,Thomas, Jr., Pamela (Tony), Stan, Tonie, step-daughters, Sepheia and Indeia), special daughters (Vickie, Gail, and Pam); a proud grandmother of the following,(Cory, Ashley, Joshua, Keshia, Lamont, Marquita, Monica, Monique, Sterling, Asia, Aamira, Tahirah, Nnenia, Saleemah, Nura, and Nafia); a cherished great-grandmother, auntie, and friend to many, including a special friend in Rodgers. She had a special gift for making each person feel like the center of her world. Whether you were across the kitchen table or across the country, she remembered the little things, a favorite dish, a childhood story, a personal victory, she made sure you felt deeply seen and loved. Ernestine moved to the Youngstown area in 1950 and became a charter member of the New Vision Baptist Church. She was employed for 25 years as an operating room technician and surgical technician, retiring in 1991. She also worked as a school bus aide at Leonard Kirk, always sharing her natural warmth and care with everything she did. It was in her roles as matriarch, friend, and guiding light that she truly shined. While at New Vision, she served on the Deaconess Board, member and past president of the Senior Usher Board, assistant treasurer of the church, as well as member and treasurer of the Women's Mission. She also worked with the Mahoning County Transportation Department for seven years, retiring in 1998. Ernestine enjoyed crocheting, working on the 'Big Book' word search puzzles, and was a lover of gospel music. Her kitchen was filled with love, flavor, and impromptu cooking lessons Her garden bloomed with care; and her faith never wavered. She often said, 'Don't worry about it, pray about it and let God do His work.' She was the life of every party. If Ms. Ernestine wasn't feeding you, she was surely dancing, smiling, and lifting others up. Her remedies could fix any ailment, and her presence was a balm to the soul. When you were with her, you felt like 'Grandma's baby,' no matter your age. To know her was to know unconditional love, deep faith, and a joy that radiated from her very being. If her life had a soundtrack, it would be 'Grandma's Hands' – tender, strong, and full of grace. Ernestine will be remembered as a woman who loved God and her family above all else. Her legacy lives on in every recipe passed down, every prayer spoken, and every dance shared in her memory. Ernestine Hall was preceded in death by her parents and loving husband of 56 years (Thomas Cellar 'TC' Hall). Their laughter, dancing, and travels were the heartbeat of their enduring love story. She was also preceded by her two sisters (Johnnie Mae Jackson and Mozella Toland-Vinson) and grandsons (Terrance and Shon Rankin). Arrangements are being handled by L.E. Black, Phillips & Holden Funeral Home. To send flowers to the family or plant a tree in memory of Ernestine Hall, please visit our floral store. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
