Artist’s First LA Art Exhibit Opens March 4th
Born in Beijing, China in 1999, artist Jesse Liu is presenting her first solo art exhibit entitled Spring Fever at the Yiwei Gallery (1350 Abbot Kinney, Venice, CA 90291), opening on Saturday, March 4th from 12-5pm.
JESSE LIU – Art Exhibit
Spring Fever
Opens Saturday, March 4th (12-5pm)
1350 Abbot Kinney Blvd
Venice, CA 90291
A graduate of the esteemed School of Visual Arts New York, Liu’s mesmerizing paintings are illusionary – blending together her imagined world with small fragments of her personal memories and emotions. Her inspiration for each work comes from a fascination with the concept of memory, itself a product of subjective consciousness – memories are more about recording emotions at a specific moment rather than an object fact. When she paints, she connects her reflected moments to the present day. People who are lost in one reality appear in this painted one, longing or playing, hiding or seeking, uncomfortable or blissful.
All of her paintings are of Asian women, showing their mysterious sides in different environments and postures, while also highlighting their relationships with other women. She primarily works with oil on canvas because it holds and stores and layers something important to her with each brush stroke. Her first exhibit Spring Fever focuses on these women who are sparks of her own memories and experiences she has encountered mixed with the inner emotions and world that she has created.
Growing up in Beijing, China, Liu came to South Carolina for high school, and then graduated from School of Visual arts in 2022, majoring in illustration. At that time, what interested her most was how to tell stories through visual representation, but throughout college she felt restricted by having to focus on specific themes and backgrounds for creating illustrations. In her senior year, she began painting for freely which sparked her passion for creation and provided her free reign for expressing her emotions and inner world. As a person who is not good at expressing herself in words, painting became a bridge for her to communicate with the outside world.