https://www.chasingsundogsart.com/shop-1 daily 0.75 2020-06-17 https://www.chasingsundogsart.com/about daily 0.75 2026-05-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dbcbf59f13fc5620ba176a8/1593021818782-A2DPHFRXC2ZNGA6CANAD/IMG_0007.jpeg about - Esther Teng Esther Teng is a multimodal artist based in Michigan. When she isn’t creating, you can find her roving through the trees or along the northern coast. You may reach her at Teng.Esther.0@gmail.com, or follow her on Instagram @chasing.sundogs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dbcbf59f13fc5620ba176a8/1592672941693-ZB1Q08EJP93CVLYIVPOY/20190803_084521.jpg about https://www.chasingsundogsart.com/graphite daily 0.75 2020-06-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dbcbf59f13fc5620ba176a8/1579569632439-BJ0WW07YR50UGJKRQJEN/image-asset.jpeg Graphite: Various - A Tumultuous Wedding 2018, graphite on paper. Approximately 12x18”. This was made to satisfy a prompt involving five wealthy people in conflict: An heiress, a widow, a mother, a lottery winner, a self-made man, and a thief. The wedding is set in 1954; the bride is an heiress is wearing her grandmother’s dress, marrying the lottery winner to bolster her family’s fortune. The lottery winner is somewhat disgusted but inattentive to his bride, who is comforted by her widowed aunt. Meanwhile, the bride’s mother swipes wine from the self-made man and his table mate. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dbcbf59f13fc5620ba176a8/1592959794068-YAHP31K23MHB5EYZY0J3/Portrait009Melancholic.jpg Graphite: Various - Melancholic 2018, metallic Lycra pencils on paper, 9x12”. Life drawing. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dbcbf59f13fc5620ba176a8/1590119140339-FHEZLP3GE9DSQV9LCK5F/TengEsther_Vardolos.jpg Graphite: Various - Nia Vardolos 2018, graphite and white pencil on toned paper, 9x12”. https://www.chasingsundogsart.com/jewelry daily 0.75 2020-06-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dbcbf59f13fc5620ba176a8/1592599524418-T5A0TBP3W56RTNV6O0NI/Towards+Better+Things+Necklace Jewelry https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dbcbf59f13fc5620ba176a8/1584323201344-OKOJRQVI5NP74D3Q55PB/TowardsBetterThings2.jpg Jewelry https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dbcbf59f13fc5620ba176a8/1592957592754-SDQBWM8QLW5OVCJ5XRZA/Knife+Halo.jpg Jewelry A sketch circa summer 2016, the rediscovery of which led to designing the necklace. https://www.chasingsundogsart.com/amontillado daily 0.75 2020-06-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dbcbf59f13fc5620ba176a8/1572653814351-C90YGA4ATON9X2955FV0/TengEsther_Amontillado1.jpg The Cask of Amontillado - “Ignorance” Fortunato, drunk and oblivious, is lured into the catacombs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dbcbf59f13fc5620ba176a8/1572653869723-3URJZY7HAB3RLJ46A599/TengEsther_Amontillado2.jpg The Cask of Amontillado - “Cognizance” Now trapped in the wall, Fortunato is involuntarily detoxing. https://www.chasingsundogsart.com/posters daily 0.75 2020-11-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dbcbf59f13fc5620ba176a8/1604339995062-GB9EX9UFELTAROZ730CH/IMG_0199.png Posters - Senior Exhibition 2020, Procreate, 8.5x14”. This was a proposed design for the Northern Michigan University: School of Art and Design’s Fall 2020 Senior Exhibition. The students are free to choose the theme and scope of their work, so I looked for common ground among the seniors. Because we all lived and studied on the coast of Lake Superior, the exhibition was set for stormy November, and we were all struggling with the uncertainty of returning to college during the pandemic, I chose to depict sailboats on a churning sea. “The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead when the gales of November come booming.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dbcbf59f13fc5620ba176a8/1579577944658-2JKF5HGKWQOQZAC5AHLP/WebAD319_ReadingPoster_TengEsther.jpg Posters - Read to Succeed 2019, Adobe Photoshop, 24x36”. This poster made to promote reading and their role in the trades. In secondary school, a number of my classmates became frustrated with coursework and claimed they wouldn’t need to study once enrolled in trade school. Unfortunately, most trades seem to require a great deal of technical knowledge, and it was my hope to suggest its role here. This poster’s design was influenced by Socialist Realism. https://www.chasingsundogsart.com/sketches daily 0.75 2020-06-24 https://www.chasingsundogsart.com/sculpture daily 0.75 2021-04-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dbcbf59f13fc5620ba176a8/1584390993280-YWGDW02EYQE8ZGC1RK8V/Heron1.jpg Sculpture https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dbcbf59f13fc5620ba176a8/1584391010902-UTZI410BTR3C3E8NQS8P/Heron2.jpg Sculpture https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dbcbf59f13fc5620ba176a8/1579569398819-SXR09ZJTAU1XSNCFZV2X/WebRose+Angled1.jpg Sculpture https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dbcbf59f13fc5620ba176a8/1579569400319-J3HFFOY7FMLYUNVTGLOL/WebRose+Front+2.jpg Sculpture https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dbcbf59f13fc5620ba176a8/1617329481796-1GVQ0ZUCAZ4D1Q2MN81K/public.jpeg Sculpture https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dbcbf59f13fc5620ba176a8/1617329462891-GRF9ILZXWUD1CIAIJ7WN/public.jpeg Sculpture https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dbcbf59f13fc5620ba176a8/1584308379197-ED8EDCE58N223IWV43NY/PlanarModel+1.jpg Sculpture https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dbcbf59f13fc5620ba176a8/1584321971226-FUM8JBLBHXNQ65JHULTO/PlanarModel+2.jpg Sculpture https://www.chasingsundogsart.com/home daily 1.0 2020-06-24 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dbcbf59f13fc5620ba176a8/1610597217520-F3JZNMFK3OE6Q4VPITI0/IMG_0249.jpeg home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dbcbf59f13fc5620ba176a8/1610597190943-JDR5N93R109LECO9V00Y/IMG_0245.jpeg home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dbcbf59f13fc5620ba176a8/1584390993280-YWGDW02EYQE8ZGC1RK8V/Heron1.jpg home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dbcbf59f13fc5620ba176a8/1572653814351-C90YGA4ATON9X2955FV0/TengEsther_Amontillado1.jpg home - The Cask of Amontillado: Part 1: 2018 (Copy) Fortunato, drunk and oblivious, is lured into the catacombs. Watercolor. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dbcbf59f13fc5620ba176a8/1592959794068-YAHP31K23MHB5EYZY0J3/Portrait009Melancholic.jpg home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dbcbf59f13fc5620ba176a8/1590119140339-FHEZLP3GE9DSQV9LCK5F/TengEsther_Vardolos.jpg home - Nia Vardolos: 2019 (Copy) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dbcbf59f13fc5620ba176a8/1579569400319-J3HFFOY7FMLYUNVTGLOL/WebRose+Front+2.jpg home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dbcbf59f13fc5620ba176a8/1579569632439-BJ0WW07YR50UGJKRQJEN/image-asset.jpeg home - A Tumultuous Wedding: 2018 (Copy) Graphite on paper, late 2018. Approximately 12x18”. This was made to satisfy a prompt involving five wealthy people: An heiress, a widow, a mother, a lottery winner, a self-made man, and a thief. The wedding is set in 1954; the bride is wearing her grandmother’s dress circa 1910 and is marrying to bolster her family’s fortune. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dbcbf59f13fc5620ba176a8/1579578123378-8U3G2YM0QWE7QKGUDUWY/FloraFauna.jpg home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dbcbf59f13fc5620ba176a8/1604340692561-LWHLCAZO0PDBO66KEKZX/IMG_0199.png home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dbcbf59f13fc5620ba176a8/1579577656875-E5MH2RTZUBJU5MEWZMAE/image.jpg home - Reading Promotional Poster, 2019 (Copy) Fall 2019, made to promote reading and the trades. Adobe Photoshop. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dbcbf59f13fc5620ba176a8/1590118638217-KUK2JKXWKD5LJMZJ89D5/Self+Sabotage+Large.png home - Self Sabotage: 2020 (Copy) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dbcbf59f13fc5620ba176a8/1604340666643-TEFVEK14O9DEO0DLZ7UT/IMG_0125.jpeg home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dbcbf59f13fc5620ba176a8/1604340668630-NBD7J15U5NTO1UTI2WTO/IMG_0126.jpeg home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dbcbf59f13fc5620ba176a8/1604340677962-LGACSNVO00VSR32KFOSP/IMG_0120.png home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dbcbf59f13fc5620ba176a8/1604340706841-LNA5F27FO224N147XZVJ/IMG_0134.png home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dbcbf59f13fc5620ba176a8/1604340708595-KRXI8K0TQHXOSGJ8BU9B/IMG_0127.jpeg home https://www.chasingsundogsart.com/celestial-bodies-playing-cards daily 0.75 2020-06-28 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dbcbf59f13fc5620ba176a8/1572652088295-VFTEUQ35KKJQH6GQJXOB/TengEsther_Dawn.jpg Celestial Bodies Playing Cards - “Rise, for Dawn has Broken.” Dawn is the mother who rises while it is still dark. She brings gentle morning light to wake us, and exudes the quiet peace known only in the morning. Dawn stands in the water, raising the sun over Lake Superior; her gown trails behind her in a reflection of the sun’s glimmers. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dbcbf59f13fc5620ba176a8/1590117753769-LXSBYU1BUX043I6G1RY6/DAY+LetterSize.png Celestial Bodies Playing Cards - “Be Diligent; Toil While the Sun Shines.” Day is the time of labor. Day is the embodiment of working men and women who labor so we may eat. They sacrifice their bodies to raise structures from the ground, and keep society moving. The bottom line is uncompromising, and theirs is the burden of providing. He strains to hold the sun up for us. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dbcbf59f13fc5620ba176a8/1590117423062-69NA0FSRHTY6URZ4J40U/DUSK+LetterSize.png Celestial Bodies Playing Cards - “Dusk Sees Those Things Yet Undone.” Dusk has taken the sun from the sky and retreats inland, as we all must at day’s end. He reminds us that time is passing and to build our futures in the present. These teachers bear the burden of preparing others, but ultimately knowing it is up to the student to make their own way. The urgency they instill bears the same weight as the sun setting on a summer’s day. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dbcbf59f13fc5620ba176a8/1590117160680-2V8SULMAXI1D3HL6EI5M/NIGHT+LetterSize.png Celestial Bodies Playing Cards - “Go Swiftly, for the Night is Dark and Full of Terrors.” Night is the youngest of the four. She ventures forth in the dark, not unprepared, but vulnerable nonetheless. She has much to learn, and her light can reveal but little. https://www.chasingsundogsart.com/costuming daily 0.75 2020-06-23 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dbcbf59f13fc5620ba176a8/1584308996985-4RGSCG6Y9KJJZGGTBB22/Wings.jpg Costuming - Rhetus Periander 2019-20. 6’ x 5’, wearable wings made of galvanized steel wire. Brazed and painted white. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dbcbf59f13fc5620ba176a8/1579578123378-8U3G2YM0QWE7QKGUDUWY/FloraFauna.jpg Costuming - Disney’s Tarzan 2018. Design Credit: Taylor Ehle. Directed by Shelley M. Russell at the Forest Roberts Theatre in Marquette, MI. Esther built the floral stamen hats and pieces of other costumes seen here. This production of Disney’s Tarzan was costumed using all repurposed materials. https://www.chasingsundogsart.com/golden-birds-mobiles daily 0.75 2020-06-28 https://www.chasingsundogsart.com/stationery daily 0.75 2020-11-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dbcbf59f13fc5620ba176a8/1604340904697-C96KTQTYFSBTOPF2YL4F/IMG_0128.jpeg Stationery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dbcbf59f13fc5620ba176a8/1604340927699-J887ZCL9W0N8O7VQ6B84/IMG_0127.jpeg Stationery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dbcbf59f13fc5620ba176a8/1604340953453-JWU8DLDB8OQQ91PVWV6G/IMG_0126.jpeg Stationery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dbcbf59f13fc5620ba176a8/1604340970835-4L7PJFHRS7S3VCRLWQ05/IMG_0125.jpeg Stationery https://www.chasingsundogsart.com/installation-overview daily 0.75 2021-01-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dbcbf59f13fc5620ba176a8/1610597277980-FUHDXYK436GZSPLNQF26/public.jpeg Installation Overview https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dbcbf59f13fc5620ba176a8/1610690954417-3PFQI2G5XRIUAD11LZOB/public.jpeg Installation Overview - I Will Never Be Free https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dbcbf59f13fc5620ba176a8/1610597303736-4YG4RMQW2ZMZ7KPOES5Z/public.jpeg Installation Overview - The Great Fracture https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dbcbf59f13fc5620ba176a8/1607560220233-3G38O4HJUGEFXF5S9XOG/DSC_2337.jpeg Installation Overview - Rise Above https://www.chasingsundogsart.com/self-initiated-work daily 0.75 2020-11-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dbcbf59f13fc5620ba176a8/1604341674729-0TP7XACUOTSHJJ97WW8C/IMG_0134.png Self Initiated Work Daisy Game, 2020, Procreate. A representation of dating: two people come together to see if they’re compatible, but there’s an element of chance involved. https://www.chasingsundogsart.com/i-will-never-be-free daily 0.75 2021-01-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dbcbf59f13fc5620ba176a8/1610692678667-75B1J0BU12VT114SVV3O/public.jpeg I Will Never Be Free https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dbcbf59f13fc5620ba176a8/1610692712249-QSC7SC1Q27MMJIVOW3VO/public.jpeg I Will Never Be Free https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dbcbf59f13fc5620ba176a8/1610596874065-W872DYG8SM7X4DI40YWL/public.jpeg I Will Never Be Free https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dbcbf59f13fc5620ba176a8/1610413510056-3UN6MNAVMRXP9XJQH3RI/DSC_2328.jpeg I Will Never Be Free https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dbcbf59f13fc5620ba176a8/1610413532705-Q8ZF17XI3H5CNDTPKD14/DSC_2332.jpeg I Will Never Be Free https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dbcbf59f13fc5620ba176a8/1610596909910-L3UB2PJQIY25ENSO8ZEE/public.jpeg I Will Never Be Free https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dbcbf59f13fc5620ba176a8/1610413553653-SDWR2DPLZKP6PVU1W8MW/DSC_2398.jpeg I Will Never Be Free https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dbcbf59f13fc5620ba176a8/1610692431097-S0N08KUWLIC2Y4P250IF/public.jpeg I Will Never Be Free https://www.chasingsundogsart.com/the-great-fracture daily 0.75 2021-01-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dbcbf59f13fc5620ba176a8/1610597042916-UPG76S196OBMMX6EB192/public.jpeg The Great Fracture https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dbcbf59f13fc5620ba176a8/1610413323205-5V793MHDMWIGPNG4T2OS/DSC_2309.jpeg The Great Fracture https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dbcbf59f13fc5620ba176a8/1610413344342-LDBKNU3B0TMW1WZSUNHZ/DSC_2306.jpeg The Great Fracture https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dbcbf59f13fc5620ba176a8/1610693457634-HG81EO11JZEW5JHV24KY/public.jpeg The Great Fracture The fragmented reflection creates strain as the viewer attempts to make sense of the resulting image. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dbcbf59f13fc5620ba176a8/1610413388324-9J9ENUXJTJYVROYDE9J9/DSC_2384.jpeg The Great Fracture https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dbcbf59f13fc5620ba176a8/1610693399680-WSFFB7HSE29UZW18HI04/public.jpeg The Great Fracture https://www.chasingsundogsart.com/rise-above daily 0.75 2021-01-15 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dbcbf59f13fc5620ba176a8/1610693137392-4TU1JPF9D5C9EZD78SG6/public.jpeg Rise Above https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dbcbf59f13fc5620ba176a8/1610693104601-PE970OR84SQ9A5OUD89Z/public.jpeg Rise Above https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5dbcbf59f13fc5620ba176a8/1610596993173-6AJVFYJ1VU85NWVOACCC/public.jpeg Rise Above https://www.chasingsundogsart.com/portraits daily 0.75 2024-11-11 https://www.chasingsundogsart.com/new-products daily 0.75 2020-06-24