ARTIST INFORMATION

Jenny Yu-Chen Liu

Like memories, my paintings present traces from the past constantly overwritten by new inscriptions. Just as traces-do, journeys all exist within the present, excavated from actions past, suggesting both absence and presence that thread through a colour-field of paint. These marks and forms are events I view as journeys, random excursions decisions and hesitations, all defined as pathways released through the subconscious.

For me the image I created by various lines, colours and textures is not a representation of something objective, it is a device to release aspects of the subconscious to challenge mine and the viewer's perception of reality. I am interested in the idea that my paintings are unveiled slowly, not to give everything of themselves at once.

Just like water or light, the painting appears to be in a state of constant flux. There are events that appear, or readings that emerge that are not available on a first look. My aim is to create an impression that through time, the painting releases itself slowly to the viewer. The encapsulation of the fugitive element of colour and how the eye and mind perceive the work in time is my central preoccupation.

My paintings are like screens onto which one can project one's own reading, finding one’s own way through the maze of colour inter-reaction. The whole notion is that they can exist like a mirage, enigmatic in character. I want their resolution to exist in the viewer’s mind's eye, more in terms of bringing their own thoughts and reflections, in recognition that the journey offered in the work is a multi -dimensional affair. I hope my work transcends the accepted conventions of vision whist stirring the imagination and evoking one's experience of differing space and time.

Education

2001-2003 MFA (MA in Fine Art)-Painting, Slade School of Fine Art (UCL)
1998-2001 BA (HONS) FINE ART-Painting (1st), Chelsea College of Art and Design
1997-1998 BTEC Diploma in Foundation Studies, Chelsea College of Art and Design

Selected Exhibitions:

2008
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Art, London
Beyond Limits, Fiumano Fine Art, London
2007
An exhibition of Recent Paintings, Asian House Fine Room, London
Connaught Village Christmas Festival, Fiumano Fine Art, London
2006
Liberty of Expression. Barclays HQ. London UK
Myths: Ancient and Modern, FarmiloFiumano, London
Lunch of Gallery, Spencer Arts Gallery, Essex
2005
A Mid Summer Night’s Dream, FarmiloFiumano, London
Art Fortnight London, Sarah Myerscough Fine Art, London
Boundless, Sarah Myerscough Fine Art, London (Solo)
2004
Small is Beautiful, FarmiolFiumano, London
DLA Art Award 2004, Sarah Myerscough Fine Art, London
2003
Top Fusion, Gallery 48 London,
Feeling between the Lines, FarmiloFiumano, London
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Art, London
2002
'Regail per Natale', FarmiloFiumano, London
Abstract Painting Parts 1, Start Gallery, Brighton
Hang the curator, The Central Space, Hammersmith, London
2001
Future Map 01, The London Institute Gallery, Millbank, London
Autumn Exhibition, FarmiloFiumano, London
Knowledge is an organisation’s DNA, Arthur Andersen, London
2000
Come and Hear the Change of Voice, St Martin’s Gallery, St Martin-in-the-Fields
Rising Damp, Students Gallery, Wimbledon
Knowledge, Arthur Andersen, London
1999
Engaging Gestures, Lethaby Gallery, London, Organised by the Tate Gallery in association with the Pollock Exhibition

Awards and Scholarship:

2004
DLA Art Award, DLA
2002/2003
Friend’s Scholarship award, University College London
2001-2003
Euan Uglow Memorial Scholarship, Slade School of Fine Art
2001
Duveen Bursary Award, Slade School of Fine Art
1998
Undergraduate Bursary award, The British Council Taiwan

Selected Public Collections:

DLA, London
Egon Zehnder International, London
Gissings, London

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