Xinyi Cheng: Sing to It
Matthew Marks is pleased to announce Xinyi Cheng: Sing to It, the next exhibition in his gallery at 1062 North Orange Grove in Los Angeles. The exhibition includes twelve new paintings and is the artist鈥檚 first one-person show in Los Angeles.
Cheng鈥檚 paintings begin with what the artist refers to as a 鈥渟ituation鈥� 鈥� a scene from her memory or imagination, in which people, animals, and/or objects appear in peculiar, intimate moments. She draws upon her personal life and experiences for inspiration, whether it鈥檚 models she asks to sit for her, objects in her home, or a painting encountered in a museum. Ambiguous gazes, unexpected colors, and turbulent environments in her paintings convey wide-ranging emotions, including curiosity, alienation, peacefulness, or unease. According to the artist, her subjects share a state of estrangement. 鈥淔or me, displacement means creative freedom,鈥� she has said, 鈥渓ike being able to be somewhere else, to be able to transcend something.鈥�
The paintings in the exhibition present diverse subjects and perspectives. In Lily鈥檚 Mobile, Cheng鈥檚 cat is seen inquisitively looking up at her daughter鈥檚 mobile. In Oneself, a man turns away from his reflection in a window. Two paintings, each titled Young man with gloves, recast the subject of Otto Dix鈥檚 1932 painting Nude Girl with Gloves, replacing the protagonist with a young man.
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Matthew Marks is pleased to announce Xinyi Cheng: Sing to It, the next exhibition in his gallery at 1062 North Orange Grove in Los Angeles. The exhibition includes twelve new paintings and is the artist鈥檚 first one-person show in Los Angeles.
Cheng鈥檚 paintings begin with what the artist refers to as a 鈥渟ituation鈥� 鈥� a scene from her memory or imagination, in which people, animals, and/or objects appear in peculiar, intimate moments. She draws upon her personal life and experiences for inspiration, whether it鈥檚 models she asks to sit for her, objects in her home, or a painting encountered in a museum. Ambiguous gazes, unexpected colors, and turbulent environments in her paintings convey wide-ranging emotions, including curiosity, alienation, peacefulness, or unease. According to the artist, her subjects share a state of estrangement. 鈥淔or me, displacement means creative freedom,鈥� she has said, 鈥渓ike being able to be somewhere else, to be able to transcend something.鈥�
The paintings in the exhibition present diverse subjects and perspectives. In Lily鈥檚 Mobile, Cheng鈥檚 cat is seen inquisitively looking up at her daughter鈥檚 mobile. In Oneself, a man turns away from his reflection in a window. Two paintings, each titled Young man with gloves, recast the subject of Otto Dix鈥檚 1932 painting Nude Girl with Gloves, replacing the protagonist with a young man.
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