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CHEN GAO
Artwork by this artist ranges between £300 - £3,000. Please contact the artist directly, or Artist Talk for more information.
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MFA degree in 2D Design at Cranbrook Academy of Art. Gao is currently teaching graphic design at the School of Art + Design at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her work has taken many shapes, including free drawing, film photography, poetic writing, installation, and performance. She explores the fantasy of ideal freedom that extracts from the real world and asserts the power of unconsciousness and dreams. This is all about her emotional life of being. She is not creating a form but building an atmosphere to convey a sense of void.
Gao is interested in continuing her professional studio practice in association with art education.
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Chen Gao is an interdisciplinary artist and designer based in Detroit and Chicago Metropolitan Area, USA. She received her
Gao’s work has been celebrated in several exhibitions and (group) projects nationally and internationally, including the Library Mural Project at Toledo Museum of Art Reference Library and An Inspired Age at Toledo Museum of Art. She was selected to exhibit work in VAN GOGH Art Gallery in Madrid, Spain, Holy Art Gallery in London, and the Jackson Junge Gallery in Chicago.
My work has been working with emotions. They come from my instincts. Collaboration between the materials and myself happens when we make work together. Materials have their personality. I tend to feel the material first, become familiar with them, then finally work with them to make the work. I like to work with my intuition first and then discover the hidden traces behind it. I am always wondering about the reason each thing happened. Unknowns give me fear, so I need to find the truth. I feel like I’m standing on the edge of the boundary. They are infinite. There are so many unknowns waiting for me to explore. They contain and inspire me to move forward but also increase my fear. I am not creating a form but finding a sense of belonging in these voids.
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