2019 MFA Thesis Exhibition | Liyao (Rose) Chen

On view:
Friday, April 5–Sunday, April 28, 2019

Reception:
Friday, April 5, 2019 | 6–9 p.m.

See the work of emerging artists and designers at the CCAD MFA & MDes Thesis Exhibition. For the first time, the show will include strategic and service design projects from MDes candidates. MFA candidate work spans a number of different media and genres, such as painting, sculpture, photography, design, video, illustration, and animation. The exhibition and reception are free and open to the public.

Artist Statement:

Everything that goes through a person, a blank piece of paper—a color, a brush stroke—enriches. Memory fills with time. What is the meaning of a self-portrait? A self-portrait is not only the appearance of this person, but captures that person’s personality and experience. Love, as a material or spiritual form, is amniotic, like water.
Around the life cycle, water, has created a character portrait. I use four paintings to represent each stage of life I am currently experiencing. Each painting consists of several independent paintings.