#livien yin

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Being drawn to colours that they “associate with sunrise and sunset-times of transition and daily possibility” Livien Yin's paintings have an awe-inspiring palette and such a delicate, considered finish. “I try to render the way that sunlight feels against the skin, like a caress of the subjects in the painting.” Another recognisable quality of the artists work is their repetition of imagery, specifically hands and fruit. Sometimes the hands frame the face of the subject, and the fruit lies half eaten. And, sometimes the two images come together – a model's hands lazily peel an orange, another clasps an apple, mid-bite.

Livien Yin explains that their focus on hands is a means a of referencing both manual labour that characterised the first major wave of Chinese immigration and their connection to Chinese culture and cooking; “I like to paint hands to commemorate the cultural legacies and ‘acts of care’ passed down from the generations before us.” Whereas the fruit has a more specific reference – “when ‘paper sons and daughters’ were preparing to be interrogated at Angel Island Immigration Station, they memorised the details of their new identities using something called ‘coaching notes’ which were sometimes secretly sent to them inside fruit.” And, simultaneously, when placed in the hands of women, Livien intends for it to be a metaphor for sexual agency.

on Livien Yin

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Hands clutch a bag of oranges and pass a bundle of bananas across a table. They cup a round, pregnant belly, grasp a fleshy pear with two bright green leaves still attached, hold a smoking cigarette above a newspaper, and rest upon a lounging body, warmed by the midday sun. The hands in Livien Yin’s paintings frame their subjects in these moments of rest and repose—on a bed, in front of an orchard, by the beach—illuminated by the gauzy hazes of a golden light. (source)

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Livien Yin, Early, 2021

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Alessia Di Cesare // unknown // interfluency.wordpress.com // unknown // unknown // Wendy Cope // Jean Little // Nina LaCour // Livien Yin // unknown // @smokedgoudagirl

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self-portrait: orchard (paper suns 2021)

oil on gessobord, 18x24

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Livien Yin - The Promotion, 2021

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Livien Yin “Paper Suns”

[visualandpublicart]

JOIN US ON WED., APRIL 7, 2021 FOR VPA’s VISITING ARTIST SERIES | FEATURING Livien Yin!

Date: April 7, 2021

Time: 6-8pm

Join us on Zoom | Register for link 

Free & Open to the Public. This is a virtual event of the Visual and Public Art Dept. @ CSUMB.

ABOUT Artist: Livien Yin is an artist working in sculpture and painting. Her /works center on the imperial legacies of botanical expeditions, guano mining and the Chinese coolie trade. Yin's sculptures serve as placeholders for the lost narratives of peoples within these histories. Her carvings are shaped after folk instruments and archaeological artifacts whose stories remain out of reach. In Yin's recent paintings, she revisits American realist settings where scenes were pared down to the "essentials." She stages these settings with vignettes of early American immigrants finding pleasure, belonging and new cultural proximities. Yin received her MFA in Art Practice at Stanford University and her BA in Studio Art at Reed College. Her recent awards include the 2019-2020 Graduate Fellowship at Headlands Center for the Arts, the 2019 American Austrian Foundation/Seebacher Prize for Fine Arts and the 2019 Anita Squires Fowler Memorial Award in Photography from Stanford University.

Artist website: http://livienyin.com

* This event is by registration and waiting room enabled.

All images courtesy of the artist.  Photography credit: Victor Yañez-Lazcano

[yanezlazcano]

I am excited about this fundraiser put together by the Bay Area’s  MUZ Collective. They solicited 29 artists to create individual artworks for a postcard set to support the postal service and raise money for two Bay Area organizations — People’s Breakfast Oakland (@peoplesbreakfastoakland) and Hotels Not Graves - while also celebrating a group of amazing local artists. S/O to @colpapress for printing.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

29 artists / 29 postcards / $30.  All proceeds will go to the two orgs.⠀⠀⠀

DM @muzcollective if you’re interested in purchasing. The first twenty copies sold will include a unique cyanotype postcard made by Keisha Mrotek.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

Contributing Artists:⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

Libby Black⠀ Zulfikar Ali Bhutto⠀ Kevin Chen⠀ Joe Ferriso⠀ Claudia Huenchuleo Paquien⠀ Nathan Kosta⠀ Heesoo Kwon⠀ Kija Lucas ⠀ Alicia McCarthy⠀ Jenna Meacham⠀ Gabby Miller⠀ Keisha Mrotek⠀ Natani Notah⠀ Brion Nuda Rosch⠀ Leonard Reidelbach⠀ Kate Rhoades⠀ Sherwin Rio⠀ Leslie Samson-Tabakin ⠀ Nicole Shaffer⠀ Owen Takabayashi⠀ Weston Teruya⠀ Hannah Tuck⠀ The Bureau of Linguistal Reality⠀ Raphael Villet⠀ Hannah Waiters⠀ Kristen Wong⠀ Victor Yañez-Lazcano⠀ Livien Yin⠀ Minoosh Zomorodinia⠀

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Post-haste: 2019 Stanford MFA Thesis Exhibition

The annual MFA thesis exhibit for 2019 is Post-haste. The on-line announcement described the work:

In Post-haste, Stanford’s four graduating art practice MFA students–Neil Griess, Sally Scopa, Stephanie Sherriff, and Livien Yin–each deliver their culminating work in our program. For two years they have traveled, learning with exquisite detail the weight and texture of what they carry, transforming both themselves and their abilities as couriers of urgent messages. In a world vanishing ever more into the digital and the disembodied, these eloquent young artists invite a delicate balance. They ask us to engage in the rigorous labor of noticing our histories, our positions and our residues in the world, as closely and in as much detail as possible, while still moving with the speed required by our urgent times. —Camille Utterback, faculty curator

Below is a sample of the works on exhibit at the Art Gallery:

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Cheers, Carto

MFA 2019 at the Stanford Art Museum The annual MFA thesis exhibit for 2019 is Post-haste. The on-line announcement described the work:

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little slices of devotion

Livien Yin, Wendy Cope, jean little

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livien yin

paper sun (paper suns 2021)

gouache on paper, 11.5x14

[arthurjohnstone]

Livien Yin put together an amazing collection of monsters and mackers for the first friday art show. Two of the monster cafe scenes have found a home (New Parkway and Mission Pie), the rest are still for sale. You can find her contact info and more of her works at http://livienyin.tumblr.com/

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livien yin

coaching notes l & ll (paper suns 2021)

acrylic on gessobord, 30x30