jasmine chen: bodywork + practice
September 7 - October 14, 2023
Jasmine Chen is ¼ Manchurian, ¼ Bai, and ½ Han. She paints the Chinese Diaspora with bodies intertwined through time, distance, and history. Her art career started with a drawing test at age two and a half and continued after she graduated Harvard (B.A., Applied Math) and Brandeis (PhD, Economics) when she studied abstraction at RISD with Susan Fassatti and dynamic painting with John Murray at New Art Center.
Jasmine is a lifetime Tai chi practitioner and she uses her whole body to paint. Studies of her kids are made with lipstick kisses, and some action paintings are made with foot punches. Her large-scale paintings and eloquent brush drawings are active and gestural, tying in her own history and Chinese culture.
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This is a beautiful show of varied work! (I am the one whose back is in some of the pics!) Go see it! We are so proud to have @jasminechenstudio Jasmine Chen as the Fall Artist-in-Residence at @theumbrellaarts The Umbrella Arts Center in Concord!
Wonderful opening! Congrats on a dynamic mix of paintings & drawings & people too💛!
