Talk

SVA's Visible Futures Lab presents Xuan Chen, who will discuss her fall residency proposal and her past work.

Xuan Chen is an abstract visual artist. She makes non representational paintings and wall-sculptures. She was born in China and is currently a permanent resident of the United States as an “Alien of Extraordinary Ability” in visual arts.

In the past few years, Chen has been working on concepts such as Light Space Intimacy, Beyond Color Field and Op Pop. Within these concepts,  her abstract paintings, sculptures and installations are approached from the possibilities between the 2D digital image-making and the 3D complexity in our visual world, where digital images and devices play such a huge role in our daily lives.  Although her works embrace western aesthetics in contemporary abstract art, she constantly applies techniques, processes and inspirations from traditional Chinese art to her art practice.