Suyi Xu: All that is Solid Melts into Air
September 24th–December 18th, 2022
Opening: September 24, 2022, 4–8 pm
Location: Fou Gallery, 410 Jefferson Ave #1, Brooklyn, New York, NY 11221
Curator: Echo He
Curatorial Assistant: Melissa Yihui Yin
Curator & Artist’s talk: September 24, 5 pm
Open to Public
New York - Fou Gallery is pleased to announce New York-based artist Suyi Xu’s first solo exhibition All that is Solid Melts into Air, from September 24th to December 18th, 2022. Xu’s first exhibition with Fou Gallery features thirteen paintings from 2020 to 2022 that depict interiors and figures with historical references and idiosyncratic symbolic elements, as a direct response to the spiritual crisis of contemporary existence.
Xu Suyi brought us into a mystical world and gently closed the door behind. The artist's work is thus complete, and the rest can only be assimilated through the viewer’s experience and imagination. Brushed with layers of oil paints to allow forms to build up over time, her paintings engage viewers across time and space. Only with slow and contemplative gaze that one can observe how the artist swims merrily amongst abstract shapes and colors. Eventually, one can finally identify the rays of light that are contoured by the dust motes dancing within. Eros and Thanatos walk by each other—their encounter prescribed in light and dust in a space beyond time.
News and Reviews
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Exhibition Catalogue
Catalogue Design: Mingzi Ma
Events
Time: October 29 (Saturday), 2022, 2 pm–4 pm & 4:30 pm–6:30 pm
Responding to the current exhibition at Fou, Suyi Xu: All that is Solid Melts into Air, presenters Emily Francisco and Joana Stillwell will guide participants through a lecture and workshop on 16mm filmmaking. After analyzing some classic 16mm film examples, participants are encouraged to take inspiration from the current exhibition and create their own film loops under the instruction. As a result, their works will be projected as animations for everyone to view. The workshop will include a drawing toolkit for every participant.
Suyi Xu in studio ©Suyi Xu
ARTIST - Suyi Xu (b. 1996, Shanghai, China)
A painter who currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York, Xu earned her B.F.A. in Art History and Visual Arts from Barnard College (New York) and her M.F.A. in the Fine Arts Department of School of Visual Arts (New York) in 2022. Xu’s paintings are meditations on space, interiors, and architecture that morphs into meditations on color fields. Xu has participated in several exhibitions in commercial galleries and non-profit organizations in the U.S. and Europe, including group shows at New Collectors Gallery (London, 2021), Boomer Gallery (London, 2021) and A.I.R. Gallery (New York, 2021). All that is Solid Melts into Air (Fou Gallery, New York, 2022) is her first solo exhibition in New York.