Meet the Artists
John Arnot
YU-CHIA CHU
SOLO GALLERY: June 26th- July 31st, 2010
Binding: The Work of Yu-chia Chu
Taiwan Resident Artist Exchange
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“Drawing from my own background and through research, I was inspired to find an object to represent women –the ovary. The follicles within the ovaries of women produce the basic element of life; this is similar to the self- a split propagation. This kind of tandem modeling and duplication contains the feminine life energy and also represents the feminine self-identity. I borrow this identifying mark and its structure in my work to transmit emotion and mood indirectly.
I believe there is a type of emotional self that cannot vent out from the inner power- existing in a state of repression. This emotional self is constantly in the mindset of growth, including extension and proliferation. These kinds of emotions and feelings are surrounded or trapped inside- caught in tangible or intangible objects. Occasionally it will involuntary overflow to objects outside, as in the situation of Asian women wanting to rebel against authority or tradition, but cannot resist society’s expectations.
My work explores the traditional idea of feminine self-regard to the restrictions of the outside world, of suppressed emotion and the constricting ideas. I convey this through the continuous layers of construction in the work revealing the inner, emotional self-weaving process.”
Yu-Chia Chu arrived in Baltimore in February 2010. Through the Taiwanese Artist Exchange Program at Baltimore Clayworks, she has created a body of sculptural work which will be displayed in the Solo Gallery June 26-July 31. Yu-Chia originally studied nursing for eight years, whereupon graduation, she took a nursing position for two years. Yu-Chia left nursing to pursue her interest in art and enrolled in the National Taiwan University of Arts in Taipei where she studied sculpture for two years. She is currently enrolled in the MFA program at the Tainan National University of the Arts.
