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Juried Art Exhibition
Undressed
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Artist Gina Yu
Los Angeles, California USA
Preface
Mixed Media
Artist Statement
“With every passing year in the States, I become less Chinese without becoming any more American”, a professor said to me over 20 years ago as we were discussing being Chinese American. These works comment on the loss of identity in the daily progression of cultural amnesia. It is faceless, often without heads, as their bodies turn away from the viewer in anonymity.
A commingling of figure and field occurs as the figures recede and merge into the background. As a Chinese-American, I draw upon the experiences of two distinct cultures. My explorations are about the combining and layering of these two worlds to create works that speak of the synchronistic oppositions and the state of being “in between”.
I am intrigued by abstracted figures, which become figurative landscapes that become anthropomorphic environments. The figure defines the ground just as the ground defines the figure, and I see my Chinese-ness and my American-ness in the same way. One defines the other, and the two are inseparable in comprising who I am, as a person and as an artist.
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Juried Art Exhibition
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