KAREN JIANG

Hexachordal Space series
2023-2025

The mind’s desire to comprehend begins at a single point. Within this series, I broke apart the elements of drawing to understand, engage, and investigate the spatial existence of nature within perspective lines: the suggestion of occupied space is rendered through the linearity of the space in which it inhabits. Here, then, exists a relational state between every element on the canvas—a shifting continuity between being and non-being. It is a suggestion that extends beyond our current field of vision.

Category
Painting

Hexachordal Space (G)
pigment and pencil on canvas
75 x 120 cm, 2023

Hexachordal Space (E-B)
pigment and pencil on calico
75 x 120 cm, 2024

Hexachordal Space (imperfection)
graphite on calico
75 x 120 cm, 2024

Hexachordal Space (E-C)
pigment and pencil on calico
80 x 130 cm, 2024

Hexachordal Space (parallel)
acrylic and pencil on calico
60 x 75 cm, 2025

Separating Water from Water series
2024-2025

In a broader sense, nothing that exists in one moment continues to exist in the next. Could the present moment perhaps be thought of as a constant variable, that is everything and nothing all at once? Positive spatial compositions, here, disperse and form bonds observed in the polarity of water molecules.

Category
Painting

Separating Water from Water (osmosis)
pigment and pencil on canvas
24 x 30 cm, 2024

Separating Water from Water (gathered to one place)
pigment and pencil on calico
18 x 24 cm, 2024

Neither dense nor series
2024-2025

A cool summer air breathes through the plants, lifting each leaf, and creating a low rustling vibration. The gradual rise of the visual density of wind in contrast to and subsequently its eventual dissipation into the foreground and background examines an element that is neither solid nor elusive, dense nor…

Category
Painting

Neither dense nor
pigment on calico
18 x 24 cm, 2024

Neither dense nor (there was morning)
pigment and acrylic on calico
20 x 25 cm, 2024

Neither dense nor (to give light)
pigment and acrylic on calico
18 x 24 cm, 2024