painting
Justine Lai lives and works in San Francisco. She received a BA from Stanford University in 2008.
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painting
My goal is to create calm, beautiful, and sometimes depressing scenes, atop an undercurrent of confusion, rage, terror, fascination, love, wonder, and even jest - all based upon a random combination of obvious themes, and obscured meanings - for others to interpret, or project, as they will.
No matter the concept, or the underlying meaning, I present a great amount of activity, drama, and even chaos, in the most tranquil and serene settings and poses - I aim for each piece to present something new to each viewer with each and every day.
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painting
Chaos manifests itself alongside form in my work. Chaos is powerful in that it is beyond human control; specifically, it interests me in depiction as catastrophe - as the uncontrollable and random force of natural cataclysms. I enjoy the emergence of fragments of imagery in relation to a destructive force - they become reduced and ephemeral, they are representative of the momentary and transient. However, according to the scientific study of chaos, it is the minute and transient that manifest as larger factors, further down in the equation, in the study of matter.
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painting
My first inclination towards drawing came in my high school years. I later progressed into oil painting when I started to teach myself from any cheesy (or not) how-to book I could get my hands on. I love color, and am forever inclined to paint people in realistic, but slightly forced, distressing situations.
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digital
I love to bring dreams and ideas to reality.
I live my inspiration in life through visual art , and I hope my imagery awakens and inspires the viewer somehow. Currently, I am on an exciting new path of original content creation through story telling for films, music videos, and experimental motion imagery.Please view my new motion creations on my web site: www.tinydragonproductions.com
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photography
I am an artist living in New York City. I love photography, but also work as a writer and graphic designer. I publish a small fashion magazine called Debonair. In addition to the arts, I love spending time with my friends and family and am a die-hard baseball fan. My ambition is to direct a feature film.
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painting
Art does not need to be deep. If I like a subject, I paint it. If I like a color, I use it.
Art is a way of expressing life's complexities AND simplicities.
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photography
My work is about that failures and slippages of meaning that arise in the production of fine art objects. I feel that it is when a work of art fails, when it unintentionally ruins the subject it means to exalt, that it most poignantly underscores the basic impulse behind its creation: the often-fraught and infrequently-realized desire to communicate something of one's own understanding of the world and to locate oneself in history.
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painting
For many years I have liked the look of film stills, and my experience in animation has made me much more aware of how the single can represent the whole.
Conceptually the series has evolved, conveying more personal interpretations of the stills.The juxtaposition of personal memories on cinematic imagery is a theme that I am continuing to develop.
Splitting the frame into top and bottom is one of the most interesting aspects of the work. While making the subject matter more dynamic, it also represents the passage of time and more literally the film frames frozen between one and the next.
artists
As a woman who draws women, I explore the female gaze. I go beyond any objectification or simplification of my subjects and delve further into their underlying emotions and personhood.
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