Suyu Chen

Bio

Originally from the south of China, Suyu Chen is a jewelry artist working and living in Rochester, NY. She graduated from the MFA program at Rochester Institute of Technology, Rochester, NY, USA and holed a BA from Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, China. Suyu’s works utilized mixed media such as plastic, fabric and precious metals. She has exhibited her works locally and internationally, including Italy, Spain, US, and China.

Statement

Through composing jewelry works related to forms and marks, I explore relationships between practices and rituals, artificial objects, and their interconnection. Similarities among traditional art-making processes, industrial production, and art training I received, which all required massive and repetitive actions, led my interests towards experimental practices of combining artificial objects. It is a game between objects and myself - by keeping using the same artifact as a basic module, variation and transformation of forms have no end; All feeling and thinking will reveal on the surface subtly through layered painting and sanding with honest mistake and imperfection. My work aims to change the viewer’s perception of objects and materials through observation.

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