Now through Thursday, September 26, 2019

Suyao Tian is exhibiting her work at Gallery 120 in the Fine Arts building on the campus of Inver Hills Community College now through Thursday, September 26, 2019. You can learn more about Suyao Tian by visiting her website and her online design store:

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Suyao Tian at Gallery 120

Now thru Thursday, September 26, 2019

Monday/Wednesday: 10 a.m. to 1 p.m
Tuesday/Thursday/Friday: 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Gallery 120

Fine Arts Building
Inver Hills Community College
2500 80th Street East
Inver Grove Heights, MN 55076
General: 651-450-3000
Gallery: 651-450-3101

Artist statement

My name is Suyao Tian, I am living and working in the Twin Cities. Painting is my own language to connect to the world, and my way to find and connect the similarities in our soul that we all share.

I am a one-child-only generation of China-born in the 80s. Growing up, I hadn’t any siblings; I couldn’t have pets, and making friends was limited by rules, inhibited communication and confidence. As a child, I often caught all kinds of small bugs, put them in jars. I spoke to them, played with them, and they were the only listeners in my childhood.

Now I still often talk to these creatures, but instead of putting them in the jar, I put them into my creations. They become a symbol and language of my own.

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Artist’s statement (cont.)

I mainly use watercolor medium, but I also use different pen marks to define the details of each painting to give the audience layers and depth of the painting. For example, I use color pencil, ink marks and a variety of pen marks in each painting. It creates a very interesting micro and macro world.

My creative process is to extract the fragments of memory and separate, reorganize and integrate them. This process is my communication with them, and a process of self-release and expression. These peculiar images often appear in my memory, dreams and subconscious imaginations, so I use abstraction to catch a moment, feeling, and unclear form when they appear in my mind.

I use bright colors to celebrate my freedom! The title is the moment in time when I start creating, these moments are transferred my mind through beauty or ugliness I put into my work, that becomes my identity to speak out to the world.

Learn more about Suyao Tian at Gallery 120 by contacting:

Joel Starkey
Gallery Curator and Coordinator
651-450-3101