美国艺术家LaVaughan Jenkins和中国艺术家高平的展览将在北京798艺术区举行。展览日期：2012年3月10日至20日，地点:北京朝阳区798艺术区酱艺术中心1单元/Pickled Art Unit One。本展览免费

高平简历

Gaoping

1997 Oil Painting Department

Central Academy of Fine Arts,Beijing,China

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

Artist Statement

City landscapes and toys are the main focus as subjects for my work. City landscape has been a subject since I graduated from CAFA. The city is expanding rapidly as a monster. There are new buildings being built everyday. Tower-cranes, sand-piles, steel-bars and concrete are forming another kind of landscape in the city. It affects my emotion all the time. But when I’m painting, I transform the restless emotion. There is no loud noise or messy construction sites in my painting - instead, they are replaced by peacefulness. The light colour of my palette enables my exhausted nerves to rest for awhile, and gives me more time to explore inside my heart. My emotion is being adjusted during the process of painting. In contrast, there is more sadness embodied in the Toys Series. I am using my hands to build a temporary rescue shelter for the toys. At the same time, I am trying to build an ideal home to protect myself.

I am emotional, depressed, impatient, and most often I feel helpless. But actually my life is very mundane: working, painting, and playing. Perhaps my sensitivity enhanced the feeling of helplessness. I explain my life and desire in my painting. I pay attention to the people, the fragile toys and children, and various kinds of objects. I tell people my feelings through painting. Painting is my spokesperson. It is very meaningful to me.

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美国艺术家LaVaughan Jenkins

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LaVaughan Jenkins

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Works and lives in Boston, Massachusetts

Born 1976 in Boston, Massachusetts

EDUCATION

2005 BFA, Massachusetts College of Art

2002 Yale Norfolk Summer Painting

Studied with Sam Messer, Cecily Brown, Jake Bertho

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2002 Art Barn Gallery, CT

2002 Lincoln Gallery, MA

2001 Art Market Gallery, MA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS & AUCTIONS

2006 Undressed, Judi Rotenberg Gallery, Boston, MA

2005 Introductions 2005, Judi Rotenberg Gallery, Boston, MA

Director's Pick: Group Show, Judi Rotenberg Gallery, Boston, MA

Mass College of Art Senior Show and Auction

2004 Mass College of Art All School Show and Auction

2003 Mass College of Art, All School Show and Auction

2002 Mass College of Art, All School Show

2002 Mass College of Art, All School Show

PUBLICATIONS

2005 Arts Media Magazine, January-February

AWARDS

2005 Nominated into Bridgewater State College Hall of Black Achievement

2004 Senior painting grant

2003 Mass Arts painter of the year

2003 Rob Moore Grant

2002 Yale Norfolk summer painting program

2001 Rob Moore Grant

STATEMENT

Raised in Pensacola, Florida, I now live in Massachusetts. I moved here in April 1997. I now am entering my fifth year at the Massachusetts College of Art, majoring in fine arts.

With a strong foundation in the traditions of figurative painting, I create paintings dealing with the physical and emotional recreations of situations I’ve forgotten over time. I attempt to recover these situations to understand my current situations in life. My paintings are emotionally charged figures that are responding to what has them in a certain situation, or to further depict what is happening. Through this I create a point in the painting to have a sense of reality, where as everything else is being remembered through the working of the painting.