Exhibition
Shi Jiayun
Frames Without Rims
Duration_ November 2–December 21, 2019
Opening_ Saturday, November 2, 2019, 6–8 PM
Opening_ Saturday, November 2, 2019, 6–8 PM
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Gallery Vacancy is pleased to present Frames Ｗithout Rims, Shi Jiayun’s first solo exhibition in Shanghai. It will be held on the second and third floors of the gallery, from November 2 to December 21, 2019. The exhibition consists of 14 paintings, in which the artist uses image as a thread to explore its structural relationship within the paintings and viewing patterns. Shi is skilled in using abstract composition and exquisite brushstrokes to translate as well as loosen the realistic missions of the imagery’s narrative indications. Shifting through vignetting, she marks the differences and ambiguities embedded in the image reproduction of real-life objects.
Frames Ｗithout Rims intends to describe the state of relative positions and to complete the association and imagination through subjective consciousness. Consequently, Shi’s methodology becomes a metaphor for the translation process, as well as the individualized approach of the artist capturing the objective world. Translating concrete visuals and structures, Shi utilizes colors, lines, lights, and shadows to extract the functional and task based instructions of image and imagery, and to overlay the 2-dimensional surface as a medium of re-representation. Painting is therefore elevated as the window to connect and to exchange the distance between objective reality and representation, which penetrates through the dialectical relationship of the grand delusion between image and imagery, and ultimately vested in the pure language of painting that reemerge in personal viewing experience. In Shi's artworks, the subtle chromatic aberration and the progression of light and shadow cast the perceptual viewing experience onto the canvas, while underlying the basic sense of order that lurks beneath. In Light Strips #3 (2018), the horizontal light blue stripes on the bottom layer intersect perpendicularly with the longitudinal beige stripes on the surface, gradually disappearing towards the two ends. The formality appears to be simple but deftly establishes a tranquil sense of space by revealing an unnamed but repetitively confirmed universe. Green #7 (2019) consists of a green background alongside black and beige shapes. The composition is laconic and assured, without any redundant elements. The physical texture composed by the delicate brushstrokes and grains from the green background conveys a visual touch. Generated by the beige shape below, the extensity of the image is emphasized through perception, unexpectedly balancing the overall schema and palette of the painting that was spatially broken by the black from previously. Shi Jiayun was born in Chongqing, China in 1992. She received BFA from Sichuan Fine Arts Institute and MFA from School of Visual Arts, New York. She now lives and works in New York. Regardless of the uncertainty of her subject as an image, an object, or pure imagination, Shi Jiayun composes in a restraint and introverted way that is in relation of forms beyond her immediate experiences. Her works have been exhibited at Gallery Vacancy, Shanghai; Madeln Gallery, Shanghai; J: Gallery, Shanghai; and The BogArt Open Studio, New York. |
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