As Nature Formed? Linocut Prints. 2009
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Artist Statement
Eva Xie is originally from China. Lives and works in Rochester, NY, Xie has been experimenting with elements of visual art and theatre. Xie sees herself as an "Idea-based" artist who always starts her work with inspiration of a concept, which is usually from personal experience, stories she heard, and the environment surround her, then chooses the media and material based on this concept. The process of developing the concept and making art (both physically making the piece and mentally processing the idea) is incredible important to her. Xie's work consists of a variety of media including of printmaking, photography, video art and recently focusing on installation and narrative environment design. She also likes to work with found objects. Through constructed structures, she lets the symbolic and the imaginary perform a decisive role conveying new meanings to familiar objects and notion. Most of Eva Xie's art address issues of culture, identity and gender. She believes that art task is to encourage the mind, to create sensuousness, to conjure up positive energies, to research possibilities and to destroy clichés and prejudices.
As Nature Formed? Linocut Prints. 2009
As Nature Formed? Linocut Prints. 2009
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Eva,
ReplyDeleteI think this is a good start. I feel like you have done a good job of painting a picture of your process, but I would love to get a better idea of what this process means not only to you, but to artistic practice in general? In other words, what is it that you are NOT doing? I am not saying that you should actually SAY what you are not doing, but I am just thinking that maybe you would want to let the reader get an idea of why you think the way in which you go about making art is right (not CORRECT, but 'right'). Do you know what I mean? What does your process say about PROCESSES? Am I being too abstract? :P
Also, I would like to get a better idea of how this transition from concept to reality works. It almost seems like you are working from a kind of meditative or anti-rational (not a bad thing!) space when you think about how to turn your thoughts and experiences into works of art. Could you say more about this? Especially since you underscore that your works often deal with issues of gender and culture... is there some way in which your method of art-making is ITSELF a statement about these very concepts? Does your method point to a different way of thinking about race, culture, gender, identity?