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① Artwork:
College Drive
This painting draws the viewer's attention across a mosaic of associations—a psychological landscape where the grammar of dreams gets applied to everyday, banal circumstances. This composition is part of a new series by the artist that focuses on moments that depart from reality. These works employ a combination of painterly gestures that reference Chinese calligraphy, as well as digital modeling, which provides detail and logic to the imaginary objects.
Jiang's paintings employ absurdist logic and deadpan humor to give form to the artist's fleeting reveries and sensations. The artist's work draws on strategies from magical realism and her experience of growing up among multiple cultures and languages. By honing in on the banal, Jiang explores the gray intersections between the scientific, the psychological and the magical.
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③ Artist:
Yifan Jiang is a conceptually-driven, project-based artist who works across painting, animation, sculpture and performance. The artist’s paintings explore her experiences growing up in a world of multiple cultures and languages. Drawing on absurdist logic and deadpan humor, Jiang’s work hones in on the banal—examining the gray intersections between the scientific, the psychological and the magical.
BIO:
Yifan Jiang was born in Tianjin, China in 1994. The artist received an MFA from Columbia University in New York City and a BFA from Emily Carr University of Art and Design in Vancouver, Canada.
Jiang’s work has been shown internationally at galleries, museums and film festivals, including a two-part exhibition at Meliksetian | Briggs in Los Angeles, California in 2021. The exhibition featured both Jiang’s painting and an installation of the artist’s video animation.
Jiang’s work was featured in the Public Art Fund’s Art on the Grid project across New York City in the summer of 2020. The artist’s performance work was included in the exhibition In Response: We Fight to Build a Free World at the Jewish Museum in New York City.
Jiang’s animations have shown at: the London International Animation Festival in London, UK; and the Commiserate Media Art Festival in Chicago, Illinois; among others.
Jiang lives and works in New York City and Roswell, New Mexico.
This painting draws the viewer's attention across a mosaic of associations—a psychological landscape where the grammar of dreams gets applied to everyday, banal circumstances. This composition employs a combination of painterly gestures that reference Chinese calligraphy, as well as digital modeling, which provides detail and logic to the imaginary objects.More
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