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Orange County Museum of Art | Ni Youyu: Dust Paintings



Ni Youyu: Dust Paintings

October 6, 2018 – March 17, 2019

Orange County Museum of Art


Chinese artist Ni Youyu draws inspiration from the tradition of landscape in art history as well as his personal experiences and cultural background. He is fascinated by science and pushes the boundaries of photography and painting to explore concepts of microcosm and macrocosm as well as the ephemeral and the eternal. Using exact replicas of photographic images of the galaxy as sources for his Dust Paintings, Ni creates the paintings by meticulously applying layers of glue and powered chalk to carefully gridded images. Conscious of the contradictions implied in using the extremely fugitive and basic material of chalk to represent entire vast nebulae, Ni essentially collapses great distances of time and space using this most mundane human writing tool and fragile medium.


This exhibition was organized by the Orange County Museum of Art and curated by Cassandra Coblentz.






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