Xuanlin Ye: Bamboo In My Chest
@ Chinese American Museum of Chicago
238 W 23rd St, Chicago, IL 60616
Opening Sunday, April 28th, from 2PM - 5PM
On view through Sunday, June 9th
The Chinese American Museum of Chicago (CAMOC) is excited to announce Spotlight Series, featuring artist Xuanlin Ye. Please join us on Sunday, April 28th, from 2pm-5pm CT for the opening reception.
Xuanlin Ye’s painting examines how the diasporic self intersects with lingering spirituality and overwhelming waves of memories and love. Through the labyrinth of culturally encoded images and the precarious lines and forms that re-embody Ye’s self-interrogation on his flickering memories of mother, land, religion, and universe, Xuanlin Ye invites the viewers to meander among the overarching sense of history with unconscious expression of self to understand the unresolved tension (or sartorial incompleteness) that is in between his root and his life in America, to feel the pulsing vibration of the bamboo in his chest.
The Spotlight Series is a new initiative to showcase recent and past work by emerging and mid-career artists of Chinese descent locally. Curated by Larry Lee (Molar Productions), the project aims to introduce, promote and celebrate the divergent artistic visions and experiences of being Chinese in America looking at and reflecting upon our relationship to contemporary visual culture to a wider audience within our community and Chicago.
About the artist:
Xuanlin Ye, a Chicago-based artist, holds a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2017), an MFA from Hoffberger School of Painting at Maryland Institute College of Art (2020), and an MA in Art History from the University of Chicago (2022), where he completed his thesis with art historian Wu Hung. He is honored with the Hoffberger Fellowship, Soho Fellowship, and the Longform Award from Ox-Bow School of Art. His work has been showcased worldwide, including exhibitions in New York City, Baltimore, Chicago, San Diego, Dallas, and Seoul (Korea). Featured in publications like New American Painting and the Wenzhou Daily Newspaper (China), Ye’s art has been displayed in institutions such as the Chinese American Museum of Chicago, Ox-Bow School of Art, and Czong Institute for Contemporary Art (CICA) in Korea and Valencia College Orlando. Through exhibitions in American cities, his work explores the tense relationship between objecthood and personhood and interrogates the complex discourse of cultural transformation within contemporary gallery spaces.
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