Artist statement

Most people view their daily lives as too ordinary. For them the life – repetitive daily routine – is too tedious to appreciate every second, every moment. To break this platitude, something fresh and something new and exciting are constantly sought to turn the ordinary into extraordinary. However, sooner or later, whatever was once new and exciting and extraordinary becomes ordinary and they again turn to different sources of stimulation to go back to the state of extraordinary. This is in a way a never-ending tread wheel.

However, there is an interesting aspect to ordinary moments that most people overlook. We can never be in the same moment again however ordinary they seem. Let’s stop everything and look around this moment. The view at this one moment is composed of various shapes and color and even if it was the same street and the same background of one of the same days, the complexity and uniqueness cannot be replicated – It is the scene that can only be seen at that moment by me standing at that place. Weather, sunshine, cloud and wind, all these come together to affect the color of background and the posture of people adds more dynamic to the world that were “too ordinary” for most.

Ultimately, what is seen as new and special are not separate from ordinary elements in the life: ordinary and extraordinary are inseparable, like both sides of the same coin. I create my work to embody the beauty and appreciation of the moments that will never be met again. My depiction of the scene of daily life is meant to show what is considered too ordinary embraces precious moments which cannot be lived again and which should not be taken for granted.

Education

2014 BFA, School of Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Exhibitions

1st Solo Exhibition
‘EXTRAORDINRY WITHIN ORDINARY’
@062gallery in Zhou B Art Center
September 15th – October 12th, 2017

Group Exhibitions
– The Other Art Fair Los Angeles,
presented by Saatchi Art, March 2018
– Artprize 9 at the B.O.B in Grand Rapid
September 13th 2017 – October 8th 2017
– Conception Art Show at Dover Brewery  in Chicago
June 24th 2017
– BFASHOW at Sullivan Gallery in Chicago
March 2014