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I was born in 1982, Shanghai, China. I moved to New York City in 1994 with my family, and have settled here and obtained all of my subsequent education since junior high school in the United States. I attended F. H. LaGuardia High School in 1997. During my senior year there, I was awarded with a full-tuition Jerry Seinfeld Scholarship in order to further my studying in the School of Visual Arts. I graduated successfully from SVA in 2004 with a BFA degree, and was selected to have a two-person exhibition with one of my classmates in the SVA Gallery located in Chelsea under the title of 1 Painter 1 Sculptor. In 2005, I was honorably awarded with a fellowship from the New York Foundation of the Arts under the category of Drawing. Today, I am living in New York City and enjoy artistic creativity passionately. |
| About the Artist | |
I am an artist who follows a multifarious discipline. My portfolio consists of calligraphy, cartoon, painting, digital imagery, drawing and prints. Together they made up as a whole which manifest my artistic aspiration. Intellectually I am configured as a bilingual and oriental/occidental human being. My works thus embrace all of those different facets of humanity. Some themes of the cartoons are Vietnam War, futuristic warfare, Roman-Barbarian war, ancient Chinese warfare, etc. In my calligraphy, there are poetries of my favorite ancient Chinese anthology as well as my own writings and thoughts. Painting is by far my biggest ambition manifested. It consists of rhapsodic and ecstatic visions I had during my artistic odyssey. |
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Phoenix Soaring in Lofty Mount
2004 |
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| "Phoenix Soaring in Lofty Mountain and Flowing Water" is a major task of senior year and I dedicated both fall and spring semester to this monumental scale, 17 feet wide by 6 feet tall multi-media painting. It is so far the biggest painting I’ve ever done. The painting is the outcome of years of speculation on the ontological issue of civilization’s transformation. It is a visual interpretation of a poem I wrote in Chinese: here I’m providing my own translated version:
“When master has collected the herbs from the mountain and headed back home,
he sees the South Mountain engulfed in a storm of mist and cloud; everything begins to transform:
trees to skeleton,
foliage to feather,
clouds to wings,
the head of phoenix emerges out of the hilltop,
its wings rise out of hills and ravines;
In an instant, the eternal sound of nature trembles;
All of a sudden I hear Mr. Qu’s lament: “Let us call back the souls of the dead, those who will arrive back to us by riding on the phoenix.”
I remember Muo jie had once sat alone in the hut among the bamboos singing to the moon, playing the zither and whistling amidst heaven and earth.
His voice echoes in the eternal universe and falls into my ear—still a formidable tone.
I turn around and scan over the mortal world; everyone carries a hoe toiling in the field looking towards the next harvest
“What you reap is what you sow.”
Lao Zi says: “numerous beings in this world, all has got its root to go back to.”
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Thule I
2004 |
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| Thule I is the first piece of a series of four. The painting’s title is derived from Western mythology which connotes the term to identify the most northern realm of the world. I find such geo-esotericism coincides with the Chinese religion, Taoism, a subject I devote to passionately. And in one of the passage in Taoist text, it also mentioned “the north-most regionâ€, where one is suppose to draw from it psychic energy and essence of life. |
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When Gong Yi Pluck a String
2004 |
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| "When Gong Yi Plucks a String is" an echo of the long lost heritage of our ancestor’s mastery. Gong Yi is a magnificent contemporary Gu Qin player and the songs he plays are from those ancient scale. When his music comes out of my computer, our ancestor’s grandeur has come alive once again. The visual representation of this is through a computer manipulated image of a classical Chinese painting. When I finish the piece, I did what the ancient artists did in the past, wrote down my thoughts along the side of the painting: instead of a brush, I used a silver marker and wrote in Chinese: (this is my own English translation)
“In the year 2003 AD
Yuan Bin made this painting: When Gong Yi Plucks a String, he conjures up the Dark Dragon from the void who came to listen to him.
This is the moment of divine revelation.
When Gong Yi plucks the string and the dragon comes, the tree start to dance along with the wind. Using a palette knife and color tape in Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue and Violet; they form numerous rainbow stripes in order to illustrate the birth of the Beast of the Deluge.”
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Giant Beast Inhaling Water I
2004 |
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| "Giant Beast Inhaling Water I" is the first one of a series of three bearing the same title |
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Calligraphy series
2005 |
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| Translation from orginal Chinese text: "Long Live PUNK!" This is one of many calligraphies I’ve done, a discipline which I investigate quite extensively as well, not only for its aestheticism, material peculiarity, but the single most important phenomenon and uniqueness it exhibits, namely, literary weight it conveys simultaneously with visual appreciation. Thus the art work serves not only as a visual means of emotional catharsis, but also a contextual device to transcribe short verse, prose, utterance, and poetry. |
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Chu-Han Conflict I, II
2002 |
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| The cartoons I did still follow some of the very ancient Chinese visual formulas, such as scroll format, inscription and insignia along the border. However, the materials I used are pure evidence of modern technology: Bristol paper, color markers, all of which are western standard art materials alien to traditional Chinese artists until very recent times. In turn, the images, even if they depict ancient Chinese warfare, have got an urgent modernity to it. |
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Panorama Vietnam War I
1996 |
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| The western subject, such as the Vietnam War, has got an Eastern and childish twist to it. |
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Heaven
2005 |
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| The three horizontal "yao" (Chinese meaning the one horizontal stroke) is the first symbol among the "Eight Diagrams" in Chinese mythology. This first diagram is the primordial representation of "heaven". |
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| Education and biography | |
| 2000-2004 School of Visual Arts -BFA/ Fine Arts 1997-2000 F.H. LaGuardia High School of Art, Music, and Performance Arts -Art major 1999 -Cooper Union Outreach Summer Program |
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| Website: www.geocities.com/projecteureka/home.html | |
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