Author: Jingyi Zhou

I choose to look at Ai Weiwei, who is a an outspoken human rights activist, and often uses sculpture as his means of communicating to the public. He even said that being an artist gives him more freedom to talk about politics, because people will accept art more than simply politics. In one of his… Continue reading Jingyi Zhou – Art21 Contemporary Sculpture Assignment 2

For this project, I’m borrowing the symmetric features from Tracey Sarsfield’s Reflected. I like the interconnection from the two similar figures, and the wires connecting them. For my own project, I’ll develop a 3-stage human relationship process, and incorporate the symmetric structure.

The question/problem I’ll explore is human relationships.  I ask myself these questions frequently: What defines a relationship? What promotes a relationship? What undermines a relationship? Am I doing this right with xxx?  Often times, I find myself being either ­too nice or too mean on other people. It’s so hard to find a balance in… Continue reading Project 3 – Jingyi Zhou

I watched several videos from Lynn Hershman Leeson. The first impression I had with Lynn is that she as a woman tried to break the stereotypes of male-artist-dominance in the art world. She talked about her work was rejected because “Women artists didn’t make a good investment.”, and UCLA in the 70s closed her exhibition… Continue reading Jingyi Zhou – Art21 Contemporary Sculpture Assignment

The shrine will be focused on cats, because I’ve always been attracted to the mysteriousness of cats. I love its strength, spontaneity, cuteness, elegance, and independence, and I’m especially drawn to their life style, living in the moment and looks chill all the time. Sometimes in life, I couldn’t balance work and life, and end… Continue reading Jingyi Zhou – Project 2