Bingyi
Chinese artist
Bingyi (Chinese: 冰逸) is a Chinese artist, curator, scholar, architectural designer, cultural critic and activist.
Education
Bingyi received her B.A. from Mount Holyoke College in 1998, her M. A. from Yale University in 2001 and a Doctorate in Art History from Yale University in 2005. Her dissertation entitled "Rereading Mawangdui, From Chu to Han" was ranked the sixth most read dissertation by ProQuest amongst 70,000 dissertations in 2006.
Work
Bingyi is best known for her enormous-scale ink paintings in which she works, over months or years, with the environmental conditions of a specific site, to capture a reality-scaled record of the climatic and topological forces shaping a natural or urban landscape. She is also known for her "ink bomb" Shanshui paintings using forces such as helicopters. She is one of the most provocative painters within the shanshui tradition yet manages to also work in different media and domains such as urban planning, film-making, poetry-writing and multi-media installations. At the other end of her wide-ranging practice, Bingyi explores the microscopic origins of organic life in intimate, small-format paintings, in which her minute and meticulous brushwork paradoxically reveals a profoundly creative, gestural, and "calligraphically expressive" quality drawn from her daily calligraphy routine. Through her hypnotic, obsessive endurance, and execution both painstaking and nuanced, one senses the loving power of nature itself as it crafts animate life from inanimate matter. Her work has been described by critic Jonathan Goodman as "epic" in scale.
After working as an archeologist and art historian, Bingyi began showing her paintings in 2007.
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