Singapore-based Eric Chan questions the sanctity of images in his monochromatic and minimalist paintings reminiscent somewhat of Gerhard Richter, pushing the boundaries between Photography and Painting. In this, with all the emotional nuances of ambiguity in his diffused imagery, he tries to find a connection with the poetry of timelessness and the Tao of absence. Eric Chan graduated with a MFA at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology in 2000 after his BFA and studies at the Lasalle-SIA College of the Arts, Singapore in 1996. He won the Juror’s Choice award in the Asean Art Awards in 2002, and a Highly Commended mention in the UOB Painting of the Year 2003. He inaugurated the BMW corporate art series with the Singapore Tyler Print Institute in 2007. His auction record was set in The EDGE 2013 auction for a work, Ingres, which sold for a premium of RM33,000, while another work, It’s There, It’s Still There, sold at the Henry Butcher November 2013 auction for a premium of RM25,300. His solos include Flaunting (2000), Out-Sight (Hong Kong, 2002), Balik Kampung (Kuala Lumpur, 2012), Nightfalls (2006), Another Place Another Time (2007), Fine Displacement (Hong Kong, 2008), The romantics of Betrayal (2010), Wanted: Possession and Rejection (2011). In Nightfalls, there were 12 large-scale paintings in pink, aubergine, aqua, violet umber, grey umber, warm grey, powder blue, black grey, warm umber, umber shadow, warm black and cool grey.