Yuqing Zhu
Yuqing Zhu grew up between Southern Mongolia, coastal China, and the California hills. Their artistic journey began at the age of 5, when their grandma taught them how to create collages out of paper and fabric scraps around the house. Zhu most recently called Chicago home but is currently residing in Los Angeles, CA and spends their time between visual art and working as a professor in the Neuroscience Department at Pomona College.
The things which connect us to our past can sometimes be as distant as the past itself. So Zhu turned to the things they had - a heritage of steppes and life on horseback became an obsession with Western films, a desire for richly embroidered traditional garments became a collection of wrapping papers, half-remembered Gobi dunes became road trips in the Mojave, and the divides at home became a community of queer friends, each with their own pasts and dreams. These are the elements and characters in Zhu's collages, in which East shakes out the West, colors and patterns are piled high, and the stories of today are combined with fables from centuries ago. Zhu's pieces are homages to taking all that we can, leaving the rest, and embarking on the lifelong act of assembling our truest selves. "Much of my work in both art and science is inspired by literature. Juan Rulfo, Roberto Bolaño, and Kurt Vonnegut are my favorite writers." - Zhu
Yuqing Zhu grew up between Southern Mongolia, coastal China, and the California hills. Their artistic journey began at the age of 5, when their grandma taught them how to create collages out of paper and fabric scraps around the house. Zhu most recently called Chicago home but is currently residing in Los Angeles, CA and spends their time between visual art and working as a professor in the Neuroscience Department at Pomona College.
The things which connect us to our past can sometimes be as distant as the past itself. So Zhu turned to the things they had - a heritage of steppes and life on horseback became an obsession with Western films, a desire for richly embroidered traditional garments became a collection of wrapping papers, half-remembered Gobi dunes became road trips in the Mojave, and the divides at home became a community of queer friends, each with their own pasts and dreams. These are the elements and characters in Zhu's collages, in which East shakes out the West, colors and patterns are piled high, and the stories of today are combined with fables from centuries ago. Zhu's pieces are homages to taking all that we can, leaving the rest, and embarking on the lifelong act of assembling our truest selves. "Much of my work in both art and science is inspired by literature. Juan Rulfo, Roberto Bolaño, and Kurt Vonnegut are my favorite writers." - Zhu
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"Outrider", collage on paper, 25 x 19 in 27 x 21 frame by Frame Chicago, $1,100
"Hou Yi in the Time of Ten Suns", graphite, pastel and paper collage, 19 x 28 in a light, thin frame, $900
"Two of Wands", graphite, mixed media and paper collage, 30 x 34 in 32 x 36 frame w/ plexi, SOLD
"Forest for the Trees", graphite, mixed media and paper collage, 10 x 7 in 16.5 x 12.5 frame, SOLD
"Horsehead Fabler", graphite, mixed media and paper collage, 26 x 20 in 27 x 21 frame w/ plexi, $1,000
"Marbled", graphite, mixed media and paper collage, 12 x 9 in 14 x 11 frame, SOLD
"No Nostalgia", graphite, mixed media and paper collage, 20 x 26 in 21 x 27 frame w/ plexi, $900
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"The Road You Came in on" . graphite, paper, canvas and string, 12 x 12 , SOLD
"Neon Goddess Nezha", graphite, ink and paper collage, 19 x 26 in a light, thin frame, $900
"Usagi", graphite, mixed media and paper collage, 7.5 x 10.5 in 11 x 14 framed, SOLD
"La Patrona de las Pequeñas Manchas Rojas", graphite, mixed media and paper collage, 20 x 30 in 21 x 31 frame w/ plexi, $1,300
"And When They Found Their Piece of Sky", graphite, mixed media and paper collage, 20 x 30 in 21 x 31 frame w/ plexi, $1,200
"Sky Collector", colored pencil on paper, 12 x 12 in 12.5 x 12.5 frame, $300
"Stones at Night", graphite, mixed media and paper collage, 30 x 20 in 31 x 21 frame w/ plexim $1,200
"Kleio", graphite, mixed media and paper collage, 30 x 20 in 31 x 21 frame w/ plexi, $1,100
"Patron Saint of the Precession of Poetry", mixed media paper collage, 19 x 25, $850
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