Li-lan
dal 14/11/2003 al 20/12/2003
Segnalato da
14/11/2003
Li-lan
DoubleVision Gallery, Los Angeles
Paintings and Pastels. Li-lan employs enlarged international stamps, airmail envelopes and blank sides of postcards as her pictorial elements. Her paintings convey external correspondences with global culture as well as inner reflections of the self. Through intensely structured imagery, Li-lan's work touches upon themes of communication and language; furthermore, it hints at deep personal meanings within a complex cross-cultural dialogue.
Paintings and Pastels
DoubleVision Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition of New York
based artist Li-lan from November 15th to December 20th with a reception for
the artist on Friday November 15th from 5-8pm.
Li-lan employs enlarged international stamps, airmail envelopes and blank
sides of postcards as her pictorial elements. Her paintings convey external
correspondences with global culture as well as inner reflections of the
self. Through intensely structured imagery, Li-lan's work touches upon
themes of communication and language; furthermore, it hints at deep personal
meanings within a complex cross-cultural dialogue.
Li-lan's art depicts a self-contained universe where the subtle intricacies
interlink with individual expression and awareness. Her elaborately rendered
images are often impressionistic, together with the rich textural nuances of
the surfaces, achieved with surprisingly expressive brushwork in particular
the stamps and cancellation marks. She also introduces a different set of
illusions by depicting architectural structures. The postmarks on her canvas
from around the world suggest her personal messages on international
relations.
In some pieces, Li-lan has included an image of her eye fashioned into a
repeating stamp motif. Not only does it function as the representation of
her own unique vision as an artist, but also refers to how others perceive
her. In Western culture, the eyes are typically used as a defining physical
feature of Asian identity. The image of her eye, positioned in carefully
arranged pictorial places and moments, can be regarded as a reflection of
her self-awareness across cultural boundaries in a global context.
Li-lan's paintings have been the results of a subtle process of
distillation. Space, time, memory, and emotions are compressed and
transformed into her airy, and light-filled compositions. The impeccable
sensitivity in all her painting engages the viewer to glimpse aspects of her
inner-self through the signs she leaves there.
Li-lan was born in New York. She has exhibited extensively in the U.S.A. and
internationally, especially in Taiwan and Japan. Her work is in major public
and private collections all over the world, such as Weatherspoon Art
Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC, The Parrish Art
Museum, Southampton, NY, The William Benton Museum of Art, Storrs, CT,
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, Ohara Museum of Art, Kurashiki,
Japan, and The Sezon Museum of Modern Art, Kuraizawa, Japan. She now lives
and works in New York.
Opening Reception: Saturday, November 15th, 5-8pm
Gallery Hours, Tuesday  Saturday, 11:00  4:30 p.m. or by appointment
Image: Postrscrpt, pastel on paper, 21 x 28.5 inches.
DoubleVision Gallery
5820 Wilshire Blvd. Suite 100, Los Angeles, CA 90036
Tel: (323) 936-1553