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Yu-Chen Wang studied at Chelsea College of Art and Design, London (MA Fine Art 2001-02) and Goldsmiths College, London (PG Fine Art 2000-01). She has exhibited widely both in the UK and internationally, including Suggestioni dell'anima, Galerie Onno van Toor, Rotterdam (2009); Kunstvlaai, Amsterdam (2008); Satellite Works, La Centrale, Montreal and Galerie L'Oeil de Poisson, Quebec City, Canada; Saison Vidéo 2007, FRAC Nord-Pas de Calais, France; New Life and the Dream Garden, Fieldgate Gallery, London; Two Hopes, Tbilisi Opera and Ballet Theatre, Georgia; My Still Life as a Personal Object, Alma Enterprises, London (2007); Darklight Film Festival, Dublin; BBC Big Screen, Manchester; Archipeinture: Moving in Architecture, Camden Arts Centre and Curzon Soho, London (2006); Synch Festival, Athens (2005); Tank.TV, ICA, London (2004). |
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Text by JJ Charlesworth 2007 |
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The relation between representation, distortion and transformation is one formulation of this intention. Yu-Chen Wang’s meticulous pencil drawings of apparently organic or biomorphic forms are also an investigation into the point at which a non-figurative line stops being a line and, with a little shading, starts to become a form which might represent something else. Wang’s drawings never impose a definite identity for these shapes; they operate between representational and decorative form, and while scattering clues about what they might be, they remain always in an in-between state, as lines gather and form into resolved objects, or disintegrate back in mere outline and sketch. |
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UltraCreature, City Inn Westminster, London 2008 |
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Yu-Chen Wang’s drawings are beautifully rendered colourful compositions of flowers and machines melding into one another. However, there is a strangeness to the flowers and machines – flowers look genetically modified in their almost saccharine beauty and brightness while machines lack evident purpose or appear to offer a mostly superfluous purpose. Drawings are jewel-like floating on a stark white sterile background devoid of context other than a laboratory. |
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Text by Alasdair Duncan 2008 |
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Yu-Chen Wang's colourful drawings of abstract organic forms spread on paper across a wall, spilling playfully onto the wall around. Her forms move in and out of one another, interacting on the way, referencing to the functional aesthetics of animal and botanical biology, her images flux from highly finished effects to sketchier areas, giving a sense of seamlessly varying graphic functions. Drawing over an electric socket so that it mirrors her paper, this sense of the function of her imagery seamlessly morphing carries through her work. |
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