Group Exhibition on View
THE WAY
20th January - 20th February 2022
We are pleased to announce that the “THE WAY” Online Group Exhibition opens on January,20 2022, exhibiting the work of 20 artists.
WHEN YOU CHANGE THE WAY YOU LOOK AT THINGS,
THE THINGS YOU LOOK AT CHANGE.
Wayne Dyer
Exhibition link : AlbeArtgallery.com/theway
Exhibitors
AGNES SHEIKH / ACQUAETTA WILLIAMS / ANASTASIYA KROKHMAL/ BROLY SU/ FABIO GIORGIANNI / FRANCESCA BRIVIO / GIOVANNI GRECO / JASON ENGELBART / JORDANA RAE GASSNER / JOSEPHINE FLORENS/ KATARINA CHYRVA / KRISTINE NARVIDA / KSENIIA ANTIPINA / LOUISE HAPTON / MANON RAMAN / MATHILDE LÂM / MATINA VOSSOU / SONIA BUKHGALTER / TONI BARBOSA/ SUNNY J
60x80cm 23.6x31.5’’
Acrylic paints and passementerie for the swing.
20x28” 50.5x71.1cm
Acrylic paints and acrylic inks on canvas + collage for the swing (acrylic skin).
20x28” 50.5x71.1cm
Acrylic paints and acrylic inks on canvas + collage for the swing (paper 180gm + acrylics).
20 x 20” 50.8x50.8cm
Acrylic paints and acrylic inks on canvas + collage for the swing (paper 180gsm + acrylics).
Since April 2020, a swing has appeared in my work, lonely, visible or almost invisible, still or in motion. It symbolises this period we are living in, where the future remains uncertain. I use acrylics and I have 2 series going on. In both of them, the swing is always glued on the canvas as the final touch. My series “Resilience” allows me to relate to Nature and spiritual thoughts. The swing, considered as a self-portrait, acts as a form of meditation and a catharsis, releasing negative emotions, leading to the restoration and renewal of feelings. Using only acrylics, I love playing with paints and inks, their opacity and transparency and the different consistencies that I create. With this series, I can paint what I am fascinated with, fields, clouds, calm waters… My second series “Papa”, is directly related to my father, 93, leaving in a retired home in France. Life has changed dramatically for him since the pandemic. The impact of the lockdown-almost a year- is terrible...He used to be very active…Now, he sits front of his window, looking at the birds, the wind, the clouds, the colors of the sky. I like to think that he dreams. Therefore this series celebrates the ability for the mind to dream, soothing the pain of this loneliness. The swing represents my father finding Sanctuary in within his reverie. Empty rooms accentuate the confinement while windows highlight the power of mentally escaping the reality…
acrylic and vinyl, 24” x 24”
acrylic, paper and vinyl,
24” x 36”
acrylic, pastels and vinyl,
24” x 24”
acrylic, paper and vinyl,
24” x 24”
24” x 24”
Why Do I create Art?
To remind people of their humanity. Throughout my journey creating art, I have worked in a variety of mediums: glass, paper, canvas and wood. The materials are of a diverse nature, they are the surfaces as well as depths of renderings: forms, lines and shapes. There are also the stories that emerge from these environments: stories about identity, love, compassion, anger, sensitivity and of being human. My art has been an assemblage of re-purposed materials, as in my series titled Deconstruction Memories were I utilize roller skates, pocket watches, camera lenses and clarinets to create fragmented compositions of expressive lyrical movement. Explosions of saturated energy overpower the rigid stability of a rectangular space, establishing bold and shifting perspectives that constantly offer more to be discovered. I approach my canvas like that of a worn plaster wall. Layers of papers of repeatedly glued announcements that are torn and weathered from sun, wind and rain, peeling away — exposed. This is where I start my art process. This wall is obscured and hidden from the viewer. I find it to be mysterious. I see in it the richness and colors of the Faceless. It speaks to me. My collage paintings are made of diagonal, horizontal and vertical lines. Moon-shaped eclipses rotate counter-clockwise, woven together with worn, scribbled messages that keep the eye constantly moving. The reflective energy of vinyl plays to the illusion of shapeshifting through the tiniest of light; it moves and flickers refusing to settle down. The vinyl pulls the canvas away from the wall at the same time drawing the viewer in. Suspiciously lurking in the shadows is paper — exploding in volume, texture and form. Its repetitive nature adds dimension and distinctive details; it complements my geometrical sense of balance. It offers a juxtaposition between meditative and aggressive, a bridge between brittleness and fluidity. Faceless Melodies embody the street musician, the religious frantic and the homeless. Their voices echo emotional agitation and sensitivity, often through music. Balanced, repetitive curves reveal more physical form, gritty texture, and sharp bold color, while speaking to us with compassion and love. Who is orchestrating this music? “I am homeless.” Layered surfaces unzip and gently peel away, revealing the spiritual transformation — the heart and determination of individuals who have become invisible.
oil on canvas on cardboard, 30 * 28 cm.
oil on linen canvas, 60*80 cm
oil, canvas. 120 * 80 сm
oil on linen canvas, 70*90 cm
oil on paper, 38 * 54 cm.
50 * 50cm.
I paint expressive oil paintings in the figurative genre. The main theme of my paintings is feelings and conditions of people, including conditions related to the spectrum of mental disorders. My artistic practice is based on self-reflection, emotional intelligence and personal life experience with anxiety-depressive disorder. The characteristic features of my paintings are pronounced contrast, drips of paint, raw paper margins or pieces of canvas. With these techniques, I strive to share my energy with the viewer. Art for me is not only the result of my experience and reactions to everything that happens, but also the opportunity to combat the stigmatization of mental deviations.
Series "Self-destruction and / or self-rebirth?"
The people in the paintings reflect my own struggle with that part of myself, with that unhealthy part of the psyche that prevents me from living a full and happy life. People in the paintings are fighting for themselves, for their existence in the truest sense of the word, because sometimes mental illness and death are separated by one step into the abyss. Who will win this battle? What will this battle mean in the end: self-destruction or self-rebirth? There is an imperceptible line between these concepts, and only each person within himself knows this truth. Art
digital illustration, 10 x 10
digital illustration, 10 x 10in
digital illustration, 17 x 5.5in
digital illustration, 8.5 x 11in
digital illustration, 8.5 x11in
digital illustration, 10 x 10in
digital illustration, 40 x 24in
digital illustration, 10 x 10in
digital illustration, 10 x 10in
Born and raised in Changsha, China – a city filled with love for hip-hop music and street culture, I was introduced to Kanye West for the first time at the age of 13.
The groove and rhythm were so unique and special that I couldn’t help discovering more about hip-hop music. Most of my illustration work has been a visual presentation of the knowledge and beliefs like positivity, integrity, perseverance, and justice that I have learned from hip-hop music, graffiti, and street culture throughout the years.
I believe illustrations have the power to bring changes, whether it is alternating how street culture is viewed or criticizing social injustice, which is also the main reason I love creating illustrations that have narratives.
pastel pencils and fusain charcoal on paper
50x35 cm, pastel pencils and fusain charcoal on paper
50x35 cm,soft pastels on paper
50x35 cm, pastel pencils on paper
42x32 cm, pastel pencils and pierre noire on paper
Fabio Giorgianni is a self-taught painter.
He was born on the slopes of Etna, in Catania and, despite having never attended painting courses or attended academies, he felt the passion for graphic-pictorial art grow in him from a very young age. He moved to Turin at the end of the 1980s to follow his university studies at the Faculty of Architecture of the Polytechnic and, during these years, he experimented with different styles and various pictorial-graphic techniques that led him to mature his personal style in which he blends his roots. etnee with contemporary art. The passion for the East and for Japan in particular, the practice of martial arts, yoga, meditation and spiritual research, influence many of his works, where the continuous search for new suggestions leads him to a phase of study in where the realism of representation coexists with graphic and formal abstraction.
Fabio Giorgianni's works live and change thanks to the continuous suggestions that the surrounding natural environment evokes to the artist. The subjects of his works range from hyper-realistic portraits to volcanic landscapes, from the Sicilian hinterland with its sunny wheat fields to Mediterranean gardens and urban landscapes, creating an ever-changing emotion in the observer, leading him to get lost in those worlds. that in realism find a magical and spiritual dimension.
... In my works I try to make you feel a human vibration that enhances feelings through shape, line, color and intentionality; the encounter with the unexpected, for the opening of new worlds and new possibilities of vision where the work itself is understood as a result of the encounter between man and nature in an alternation of empathy between pure form and its complexity; strongly attracted by the material relationships that the eye is able to grasp in the surfaces of objects, along the walls of the city or even more in the memory of the already state;
I am intent on developing a discourse on structurality, and particularly on the technique in which color is assumed in its linguistic value, which also applies to signs, which are admitted to constitute an alphabet without a code that guarantees a form that reflects a idea or trace and document an emotion; and so in the color they are inserted into the layout, into the diagram of tensio ns, of the rapidity, of the cadence which the gesture encounters as it explores the interior space and the surface to be painted. In search of a point of access or contact
oil on canvas ,150X100cm
oil on canvas, 70x60cm
Francesca Brivio, from Italy, learned how to paint very young, focusing in oil painting on canvas. She graduated at artistic high school and then studied design. After a period in London, as well as a few other experiences in the fashion industry, She began working in a new field that allowed her to travel. Currently, She paints almost every evening in her new studio. She is drawn to subjects such as portraits, the human bodies, animals, magical creatures, water and untouched landscapes.
“When, looking at a painting, you immediately recognize the author, it means that He is original, coherent and authentic. In Francesca Brivio's canvases we immediately grasp her decisive and dynamic traits that are made delicate, despite the rapid brush strokes, with harmonious colors and the lightness of the paint. A constructive and pictorial gesture, fast and without second thoughts that animates the canvases inside, giving her subjects a manifest vitality and a strong emotionality. Francesca focuses on numerous themes even though the feminine world prevails while never stereotyped or banal. On the contrary, her elegant and fluid style gives the figures, simultaneously, a unique and universal character. These are introspective and lonely characters who experience emotions that we all feel and share. Sometimes they appear to us indeterminate but never uncertain or weak, instead gritty and strong despite the sweetness that inhabits them. Spontaneity is the technical and expressive mean that Francesca chooses and that allows her to transfer what she feels and what she experiences at that moment on the canvas. In fact, the Author must always finish the paintings “alla prima”, the next day would be too late. Her excellent technique is never an end in itself, but placed at the service of the emotion she feels and that asks to get out to stick on the canvas. It is difficult not to be enchanted and captivated by her works; we are faced with a rare case of artistic intensity, maturity and truth.”
75 cm x 120 cm x 3 cm, fine art print on Dibond with acrylic sealing
Tondo Diameter 120 cm x 3 cm, fine art print on Dibond with acrylic sealing
165 cm x 135 cm x 3 cm, fine art print on Dibond with acrylic sealing
95 cm x 170 cm x 3 cm, fine art print on Dibond with acrylic sealing
100 cm x 128 cm x 3 cm, fine art print on Dibond with acrylic sealing
I AM WORKING TO LOSE MYSELF – TO FIND MYSELF!
The source of my inspiration can be found in the masterpieces of the High Baroque from 1650 to 1720 and the Late Baroque. The trigger for my abstract-baroque serie of works was a visit to the Würzburg Residenz in Germany. Overwhelmed by the opulent ceiling frescoes by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Antonio Giuseppe Bossi and Johannes Zick inside the Baroque castle, a deep desire arose in me to mirror this splendour of spirituality in the form of an abstract translation into the present. I closed my eyes while looking at the exuberant works on the walls and ceilings, except for a narrow slit of vision, until the figurativeness of the paintings dissolved into abstraction. Thus, the foundation stone for my work cycle THE JOY OF BEING was laid. Driven by my search for the perfect moment, the moment of perfect love, the divine, I trace these values especially in the masterpieces of the baroque art epoch. Using my characteristic digital painting technique, developed over the years, I abstract selected original baroque works of Guido Reni, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Johannes Zick and others by superimposing picture levels, blurring, overpainting and re-composing them. In the work process, my very own flowing structures and pictorial rhythms emerge, while the original color composition remains largely untouched. In sum, colour and form transform into a single aestheticabstract event that is experienced on a purely emotional level as a holy moment. My Works invite the viewer to consider the spaces of our lives that we are able to perceive at a subtle level, but that which we often forget or ignore in our day to day. In a restless and at times superficial world, I would like to remind us of the love, the freedom and joy as our natural birthright. My artworks are a testament to a cultivation of wholesome, human qualities, for positive change and development, which I state as my principle artistic vision. The underlying historical works thereby experience a current dimension of perception while at the same time creating the impression of a déjà-vu when contemplating my abstract neo paintings. Through this form of digitally painterly, an abstract re-staging of the Baroque painting, I build a finely balanced bridge to contemporary art without disenchanting.
oil and acrylic on canvas
120 x 120 cm
oil on canvas
50 x 50 cm
Oil On Canvas
95 x 95 cm
oil on canvas
50 x 50 cm
The scent of lavender is what catches some people off-guard. As I take the Cerulean Blue and a hitch of White, I prepare to paint part of an expansive sky. Using my palette knife on a glass palette to combine them, before my brush hits the canvas, it detours to a small metal container containing an aid to consistency or dry time. Having learned the best mediums for my uses are the ones I personally mix, most of the ingredients are ones that’ve been used by artists for a long, long time. When my landscape has completed, space view, or earth view, I’ll cover it over. I’ll take a very wide brush, or mix a few different colors shaken together in a glass jar, including a slightly different dose of medium, and what some would say “destroy” the first endeavor of paint on a canvas. Landscapes and cosmic views are easy to me, they are a known, always more to be discovered, but I want to dig even deeper. If I begin with a “space-y” view, with stars and constellations, I’ll move forward towards an earth view as the last layers. When my first layers begin with an earth landscape view, regardless of abstracted-ness, I’ll end with something many of us cannot directly identify. Working through micro to macro variations, looking for synthesis in experience within, what to me is, a dualistic universe, I endeavor to discover that etheric something that brings life together. A pronged scraper brush helps separate out tendrils of paint and a sponge helps create more surface texture in another area. Sometimes my canvases are rolled onto one another, face to face, sharing their experience. It’s like people meeting one another… we all make an impact, even if it’s a brief interaction. And like people, my works have what some might call “perceived imperfections” and my realized idea is to show that that, too, can be beautiful. Wrinkling, blistering, scraping off otherwise completed areas, yellowing and other ways of “misusing” Burnt Umber, Ultramarine Blue, Cadmium Orange and all the rest, is what brings my idea forward. Listening, to my breathing, my heart, all the while molding with hands and tools, I work at deciphering fallibility and shortcomings of personal experience or those related by others, into a neutral compassionate witness. For an arc of paint there, a brightness, I create a dark, contrasting mark. Juxtaposed dark and light, same but different; my subconscious always looking for an equilibrium or transcendence to the image being formed.
oil on canvas, 60 cm x 70 cm
Graduated from Odessa Law School , Odessa National Law Academy and received a Master's degree in Civil Law , graduated from Odessa International Humanitarian University and received a Master's degree in International Law.
She started painting in 2017. She studied at the painting school "Art-Ra" with the Odessa artist-painter Sergei Simora .. The main direction of study was the South Russian school of painting .
Josephine Florens is an honorary member of the Union of Poets and Writers of the World, an international organization of poets, writers and artists from around the world.
Josephine Florens is a member of the Odessa Union of Marine Painters, Ukraine. Member of the "Primorsky Boulevard" section.
Creates oil paintings in various genres, such as portrait , landscape , still life , genre painting , animal painting , marina . Works with oil paints. The painting styles used in the work are realism, impressionism, mixed styles.
40x120cm , Mixed media acrylic on canvas and digital graphic.
Materials: graphic print on wood
25x150cm
Author's own technique: acrylic on canvas and digital graphic
Materials: fine art print on aluminium board 3mm under 4mm plexi.
45x120cm
Author's own technique: acrylic on canvas and digital graphic
Materials: fine art print on aluminium board 3mm under 4mm plexi.
45x100cm
Author's own technique: acrylic on wooden board and digital graphic
Materials: graphic print on wood
In her artist’s statement she writes: The purpose of my art is to pursue the Truth. We get closer to the Truth about the world when we first observe it from different points of view, perceive through many senses, and then integrate it in one act of artistic expression. In my artwork, I create an abundance of shape and colour transformations that give the viewer an illusion of infinity. It becomes a reflection of our world, which is immensely diverse and virtually endless. I also constantly look for new media and technologies and mix them with their traditional repertoire. My search for an ideal merge drives me while experimenting with varieties of their combinations. For example, I merge oil or acrylic painting with digital graphic technologies to augment the effects of each technique. As a result, I believe that I am on my way to develop my unique artistic style. My work is an interplay of unconscious flow, which sparks the creative process, and conscious, deliberate perfecting of an image, giving the form to the infinite energy of the flow. Thus, every detail, every colour and shape, and surrounding elements have their meaning and are precisely constructed – like in baroque ornaments. My goal as a human being is to lead other people on their journey of self-discovery while maintaining inner balance and harmony. Visual arts are a perfect vehicle for non-verbal communication because they form a universal language recognised by everyone. Hence, they are my way of communicating with other people whom I take into the realm of happiness, tranquillity, and harmony, thereby changing the world. Doing it drives me throughout life, gives me energy, and serves as a source of endless inspiration.
Oil on canvas, 40x50x3cm
Oil on canvas, 30x40x3 cm
Oil on linen, 100x80 cm
Oil on linen, 120x100 cm
Oil on linen, 30x40x3 cm
Oil on linen, 30x40x3 cm
Oil on canvas-40x50x3 cm
It is important for me to know that this is the real life, and not a place for nostalgia. Through the understanding of time, the acceleration of which we can physically feel, through the vis-à-vis of a living human model, a pause is created, a place is created for the emergence of the present. Every line and every brushstroke are precise, just like every meeting with this person, a dream, a thought. A technical work with a thought makes it possible to see how the ideal becomes material. I observe the movement, participate in it, and this process is what gives honor and meaning, joy and suffering.
photo print, 21x29.7cm
photo print, 21x29.7cm
photo print, 21x29.7cm
photo print, 21x29.7cm
photo print, 21x29.7cm
photo print, 21x29.7cm
photo print, 21x29.7cm
photo print, 21x29.7cm
photo print, 21x29.7cm
In her works, Kseniia tells the audience about the emotions, feelings, and complexes that any person may experience. The importance of this topic lies in the fact that it is normal to experience different emotions; it does not make a person bad or wrong. It is normal to feel scared, it is normal to feel not at ease, and it is also normal to experience joy without a particular reason.
Humans percept other humans' emotions first of all through facial expressions. Therefore in these photos, faces are intentionally hidden. With this, Kseniia moves the attention away from faces, and instead, viewers are expected to experience the visual image as a whole. Thus, viewers are first of all confronted with their own feelings that these artworks invoke in them.
Everyday materials are used to create images - fabrics, paper, wire, headbands, scarves, and more. Particular attention is paid to visual aesthetics and color-related accents.
spray paint on paper
A3 format
spray paint on canvas,
80x80cm
A3 format
spray paint on paper
spray paint on canvas,
80x80cm
spray paint on canvas
50x70
spray paint on canvas
80x80 cm
spray paint on canvas,
50x70cm
100x100cm
spray paint on canvas
There is no conscious decision-making while I create, it all flows naturally. As a result, the way I feel while I'm creating something is portrayed in the work. My painting process is very intuitive. I often start with a photo reference of a face or a body. I use layers of different kinds of mediums to create texture and depth. Without choosing my colors beforehand the image starts to come to life.
I am drawn to women as a subject of my work. I admire the way the female body can flow and impress. The interest in female bodies and shapes has always been there though it was only recently that I discovered why:
Growing up in a world where we get constant messages from businesses that profit from us hating our bodies, it’s no wonder I have often not felt good in my own skin. Our society teaches young girls and boys that beauty can be used as a weapon and that you get further in life if you are 'pretty'. To this day my self image remains a constant struggle. So I paint as a form of therapy, to get myself to understand that beauty is not in how skinny or symmetrical you are but that beauty comes from within.
acrylic and wall paint, pen on canvas, 16"x20"
acrylic and wall paint on framed canvas,
12"x30"
acrylic on stretched canvas, framed
60cm x 80cm
acrylic and wall paint on canvas,
14"x 33"
acrylic and wall paint on framed canvas,
19.5"x25,5"
acrylic and wall paint on framed canvas,
36.5" x 38.5"
acrylic and wall paint on canvas, framed behind the glass,
23" x 31"
acrylic and wall paint, sharpie on canvas,
9" x 12"
acrylic and wall paint on canvas panel,
9" x 12"
Manon Raman was born in ’96 in Wetteren, Belgium. She spent part of her teenage years in The Netherlands but moved back to her home country where she studied at the Royal Institute of Theatre, Cinema and Sound. Before she painted on canvasses she worked on faces as a make up artist for series and movies.
She is a self thought artist who started painting at age 22. Her early work is colourful, bold and revolves around women and the naked body.
Her art became less evocative when she moved to Niger, Africa at age 23 where she started painting full time. With her African inspired art she has had multiple successful solo shows, part of which also contributed to a charity or cause to help the local population.
Recently Manon has moved to New York where she is working from her home studio on a new body of work, exploring simpler shapes and rougher features in people.
Acrylic on canvas, 100 x 100 cm
Acrylic on canvas, 80 x 60 cm
Acrylic on canvas, 50 x 40 cm
Acrylic on canvas, 70 x 50 cm
Acrylic on canvas, 70 x 50 cm
Acrylic on canvas, 70 x 50 cm
Acrylic on canvas, 90 x 90 cm
Acrylic on canvas, 70 x 60 cm
Acrylic on canvas, 95 x 80 cm
Acrylic on canvasboard, 50 x 60 cm
The works of Mathilde Lâm begin with the search for her heritage/ identity as a half-Asian person. Through inspiration from Taoism, she explores the harmony between nature and humanity which symbolizes the balance between east and west. The women she paints are one with nature and thus one with their origin. She furthermore focuses on the humanization of mainly Asian women, who are constantly stereotyped as weak or hypersexualized objects. The women she paints are her own subconsciousness as well as every woman that experiences the pressure of today’s society that is built on the male gaze. Their worn-out glances, covering clothes and staring faces confront those who dehumanize them.
acrylic on canvas board, 30cm X 40cm
acrylic on canvas,
40cm X 40cm
acrylic on canvas board,
30cm X 40cm
acrylic on canvas board,
40cm X 30cm
acrylic on canvas board,
30 cm X 40 cm
acrylic on canvas,
45cm X 35cm
acrylic on canvas,
24cm X 30cm
I believe that every face is a journey. Probably looking at faces is going to be our longest most adventurous and knowledgeable trip. Every color is an emotion. What we feel is the only present we know and by this we define our lives. Every one of us is a perfectly unfinished mosaic of emotions and ideas. Everything is connected.
digital photography/painting, printed on gallery wrap canvas, 14x11 in
digital painting, printed on gallery wrap canvas, size 12x12 in
Toni Barbosa is a scenic artist with additional skills in set design, costuming and set dressing in the entertainment field. Her education is in Environmental Design from University of California Irvine and a scenic art workshop from Royal Academy of Dramatic Art, London.
She has over 20 years working in performing arts, films, theme parks and themed events. Beginning her career in architectural space planning, drafting and rendering, later adding work in visual display. Eventually her lifelong love of dance and painting provided the direction as a scenic artist, designer and costumer with regional ballet companies and dance schools, from there expanding to all areas of entertainment.
Oil and Faux Gold Leaf on Canvas, 70x50 cm
Oil and Faux Silver Leaf on Wood, 20x30 cm
Oil and Faux Gold Leaf on PVC Board, 12x17 cm
Oil and Faux Gold Leaf on PVC Panel, 10x15cm
Oil and Faux Gold Leaf on PVC Board,
12.5x17 cm
Oil and Faux Silver on Paper,
10.5x18 cm
Oil and Faux Gold Leaf on PVC Board,
12x17 cm
Oil and Faux Gold Leaf on Paper,
18x11.5cm
Art is an experience, something that impacts us through our senses and connects with the emotions that dwell within us. Before the global pandemic but even more so in these times, the freedom to look outside or leave our homes to experience the natural world is not a given. In my personal experience I have found that nature has an incredible ability to wipe the mind clean and remind us of our connection to the world and others, but also of our easily forgotten fragility. In my work I represent the connection between the vastness of nature and my own emotions. I use landscapes and colors on gilded surfaces to connect to the state of being that I desire, to simply dwell in the emotions that I am experiencing, or remind myself of my role as a tiny part of something bigger.
41 x 51 cm x 5 cm
Oil and crochet on canvas
Quadriptych, 60 x 240 cm
Embroidery, crochet and oil on canvas
36 x 36 x 8 cm (53 x 53 x 10 cm with frame)
Oil and yarn crochet on canvas
36 x 36 x 5 cm （38 x 38 x 7 cm with frame）
Oil, plastic and crochet on canvas
embroidery, sewing, watercolor and ink wash on
layered paper
19 x 27 cm
26 x 46 x 6 cm (canvas size 16x10 cm / 10x 8 cm)
Oil, paper thread and gouache on canvas
ø 40 cm
Oil and embroidery on canvas
60 x 60 cm
Oil and embroidery on canvas
Sunny J calls herself an erroneous narrator. She invents stories of identity confusions and plurality, and hides them under cruel eroticism.
With a multifaceted practice spreading across painting, performance, textile, installation, and various crafts, her fundamental visual research rests on the definition of identity. She drains inspiration from the Dissociative Identity Disorder, portraying the mutual manipulation that happens between the selves within one body, and exploring the temporal and spatial discrepancies that result from such identity multiplication. She is particularly interested in the expression of the body in time and space, notably Chinese women’s bodily transformation throughout history.