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March 13, 2008- May 3, 2008
Reception: March 20, 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Lin Tianmiao
Mary Ryan Gallery
527 W 26th StThis exhibition is presented as part of Asian Contemporary Art Week, March 15 — 24, 2008. For more information: www.acaw.net
Mary Ryan Gallery is pleased to present Lin Tianmiao: Focus. Lin is one of China’s best known contemporary women artists and her work has been exhibited widely across Asia and internationally.
This exhibition will feature prints and unique works on paper from two series, Focus and Seeing Shadows, completed during her residency at the Singapore Tyler Print Institute in 2006. Printed on handmade paper, the works blend lithography, embossing, and the incorporation of embedded elements, lending them unique texture and dimensionality.
Each work in the Focus series is based on the magnified image of a significant person in the artist’s life. The images—monumental in scale—are cropped and blurred, veiling them in anonymity. Each image conveys such softness and sensitivity that they evoke someone remembered, rather than someone real. On the surface of these images, and in some cases within the paper itself, Lin layers formations of thread, styrofoam balls, and embossed impressions of needles. Materials and their materiality are essential to Lin’s craft. She uses thread both as means to bind her work together and to set her images apart.
In these particular works, Lin was able to manipulate the paper as it was being made. She experimented with printing on freshly dipped papers, adding paper pulp for richer texture, and applying Japanese lace-making techniques to wash away holes made in some of the prints. The resulting works are haunting, delicate, and arresting.
Seeing Shadows is a four-paneled series that presents a panoramic view of a traditional Chinese interior in disrepair. This image preserves old Beijing, as many of the old structures are being demolished in pursuit of a newer, more modern city. While exploring space rather than people, Lin continues to use embedded thread and embossed ink, along with silkscreen and lithography in this series.
Lin Tianmiao was born in Taiyuan Shanxi Province, China in 1961. She studied Fine Art at Capital Normal University in Beijing, and then at the Art Student’s League in New York. For nearly a decade she and her husband, artist Wang Gongxin, lived in New York City, where she designed textiles until the couple moved back to Beijing in 1994. She has participated in group exhibitions across the globe, most recently Global Feminisms (2007) at the Brooklyn Museum in New York. This is her first gallery exhibition in the United States. Lin’s work has been acquired by the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and is currently on view in the exhibition Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now.
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