Taiwan artist Y.J. Cho's mixed-media paintings of weather-beaten walls sometimes contain almost as many layers and textures as the structures they depict. But even her three large-scale pencil drawings are meticulously detailed explorations. The unusual range of technique and skill makes these 12 pieces much more than just realist renderings.

The walls in Cho's works range from Taiwan and Bali to Switzerland, but in most cases there are few visual clues as to the probable location. The works bear out her notion of the universality of decay and incidental fragments of nature - grass clustered against brick, or ivy climbing over fractured stucco.

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