Chinasquare中國廣場 Lin Yan 林延 / Art Inspired by Barack Obama

Lin Yan was born in Beijing to a family of distinguished artists. She graduated from The Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing in 1984. Among the first wave of Chinese students to study abroad as China opened its doors, Lin studied at the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris before coming to United States in 1986. Lin's works are filled with complex impulses and nuances through her quite minimal and mostly quiet forms. While traditional Chinese painting materials (paper and ink) are the foundation of her works, the crumbled layers of soft, handmade papers create a paradoxical post-industrial feeling. Informed by the struggle and resistance involved in the modernization of China and crises around the world, she balances the restlessness of these ideas with the tranquility of her materials. Her works investigate the relationship between Chinese traditional painting and modernist abstraction, as well as that between postmodern appropriation and ancient technical rigor.

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