Online Residency 2021
EDUCATION
Indiana University Bloomington 2014 – 2018
- BFA in Painting and Drawing
Washington University in St. Louis 2018 – 2020
- MFA in Visual Art
WORKING EXPERIENCE
Lecturer, Wuhan University Of Technology, Wuhan, China / 2020 – Present
Curator Assistant, Des Lee Gallery, St. Louis, USA / 2018 – 2019
Teaching Assistant, Washington University in St. Louis, St.Louis, USA / 2019 – 2020
Founder of SY.Studio/ Wuhan S.M.G Cultural Development Co. LTD, China / 2020 – Present
RECENT EXHIBITIONS
- Group Ink Painting Exhibition, Wuhan Art Museum – Wuhan, China / 2021
- Solo Exhibition, Shan Art Museum – Wuhan, China / 2021
- A Thing Like You and Me, Kemper Art Museum – Louis, USA / 2021
- PARABOLA: Extraterrestrial Bruno David Gallery – Louis, USA / 2020
- Consent/Dissent Alt+Space – Louis, USA / 2020
- Child’s Play, Foundry Art Centre – Louis, USA / 2020
Artist statement
The ink painting I’m currently making is inspired by traditional Chinese scroll landscape painting. Such landscape paintings combine meticulous technique, compositional complexity, and tension between representation and abstraction to reveal an alternative universe that awaits discovery amid our mundane existence. In my work, I explore the political and social ramifications of the ongoing cultural conflict between traditional and emergent contemporary values. By using traditional Chinese elements and techniques in my painting, I give the audience the opportunity to remain a part of our rapidly growing world while contemplating the implications of our present digital condition through traditional aesthetic forms. I value the power of traditional Chinese aesthetics to reveal philosophical dispositions and incorporate this perspective through the mark-making system that I created, which emphasizes aesthetic attributes and emotional assimilation with the painting as an alternative way of being in the world.
Links
Instagram @sixueyang_art