Xinyu Yu: Memory, Matter and the Poetics of Cross-Cultural Painting

Xinyu Yu’s practice brings Chinese ink traditions, Western abstraction and sustainable design into quiet, charged dialogue. In Xinyu Yu’s practice, Chinese ink traditions, Western abstraction and sustainable design meet in works that make silence feel charged. An artist and designer born and raised in China, Yu brings together Eastern artistic traditions and Western contemporary frameworks with notable restraint. Her background in ink painting, watercolour and drawing gives the work its discipline, while her studies at Pratt Institute and the University […]