b. 1990, Cambridge, Mass.; lives and works in New York
Tussle 2023 Oil on gesso board 24 x 20 in
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Livien Yin is a New York City-based artist working in painting and sculpture. Her practice creatively engages with archival sources, especially Chinese diasporic histories in the United States. In Tussle, Yin depicts a close-up view of a San Francisco teenager in the back of a car from an archival photograph captioned “Chinatown Fight, 1943." In The Brooklyn Rail, art historian Ekalan Hou writes: “[Yin's] paintings create spaces of doubts, wishes, and possibilities that unfix the past of our inheritance; they attend to furtive intimacies and everyday practices of transfiguration that are eclipsed in narratives of Chinese immigrants’ dispossession.”
Yin is currently an artist-in-residence at Silver Arts Projects, was previously a participant at Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture and a fellow at Headlands Center for the Arts, and received her MFA from Stanford University. She is represented by Micki Meng Gallery in San Francisco.
“I am excited to support Hawaiʻi Contemporary and its mission to make contemporary art accessible in Hawaiʻi through exhibitions, programs, and community collaborations.”
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Tussle | Livien Yin
Item #110
$7,500- 0 bids
Minimum Bid Increment:
$500
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$8,000
Available:
May 12, 2023 @ 08:00am - May 28, 2023 @ 05:00pm HST
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Micki Meng Gallery | Proceeds support the artist and Hawaiʻi Contemporary.
