Karen Jiang
Category
Selected Projects
Year
Karen Jiang
Category
Selected Projects
Year
Mark making emerging in the canvas vibrate in the space constructed by vertical lines. This vibration has a rhythmic quality that differs: when marks are made by an additive placement of pigment on canvas, forms are suggested through implied positions (the dimension of the rock is sculpted by the perspective lines upon which it sits); when marks are made through a subtractive process of pigment on canvas, fluid forms resound to the surface of the canvas like shafts of sunlight. The subtle shifts that occur across forms created through this additive and subtractive process attempts to examine “[a] time of living with a ‘minus’ way of thinking along with our ‘plus’… by simultaneously considering to make something and to dissipate something” as described by Lee Ufan.
Each phenomenon within linear space is distinctive and irreproducible—highlighting the relative rather than the absolute. The paintings are between stillness and motion, whole and divided, painted and bare, but never either. Line and form are not arbitrarily placed, nor do they depict land or sea. The ubiquitous nature of this encounter is reflected in the seemingly monochromatic palette of each painting. This internal directionality of questioning opens a dimension where the possibility and impossibility of knowing and being outside of the human condition exists.
2023/24
Bachelor of Fine Arts Industrial Design, Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), Providence, USA
2015/19
2021
Brown University Selected Course Work: Literature and Medicine; The City: An Introduction to Urban Studies; Introduction and Seminar in Music Composition courses and Independent Study (Composition studies with Eric Nathan, Wang Lu, and Shawn Jaeger), Providence, USA
2019
2024
Within a Cosmos, 3331 Arts Chiyoda [AIR 3331], Tokyo, Japan
2022
In Between Stillness and Light, Studio Kura Gallery, Fukuoka, Japan
2022
2024
Hazy Horizons, Noho Showrooms, London, UK
2024
RCA Painting Postgraduate Degree Show, Royal College of Art, London, UK 2024
GEISAI #21, Tokyo Big Sight, Tokyo, Japan
2022
Senior Thesis, Woods-Gerry Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, USA
2019
NES Exhibition, Skagastrond, Iceland
2019
Memory, BEB Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, USA
2017
Triennial Exhibition, Woods-Gerry Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, USA
2016
2023
Mass Cultural Council Grant, Boston, USA
2023
Nohga X AIR3331, Tokyo, Japan
2022
Studio Kura, Fukuoka, Japan
2022
NES Artist Residency, Skagaströnd, Iceland
2019
2024
Artist Talk: Karen Jiang, Vermont Studio Center, Vermont, USA
2023
2019
Eau, for clarinet, violin, violoncello, piano (3’), Premiered by Verdant Vibes, Orwig Music Building, Brown University, Providence, USA
2018
#228, for soprano and piano (2’), Premiered by Fred Jody, organist, and Pauline Lim, soprano. First Unitarian Church, Providence, USA
2018
Dans la vallée, for solo piano (5’), Premiered by Wang Lu, pianist, Grant Recital Hall, Brown University, Providence, USA
2017
2022