Ivy Wu

Atlanta, GA

​Wu embraces vivacious brushstrokes in her abstract gestural work, vibrates with explosive colors and sense of lines. Channeling her creative energy onto large-scaled surfaces, she paints and smudges paints rapidly in an intuitive way. She finds a range of inspirations in nature and personal narrative. Beyond visual culture, the immediate surroundings, the complexity of lived experiences lies the heart of her practice. She paints herself as a silhouette figure as part of the obscure abstraction. She lives in her work. That is her synaesthetic response to the chaotic but unified world. In the myths of pleasure, the composition hovers on the edge of the abstraction and figuration in an open dimension. A style of automatic painting or blind drawing, with a status of stable and unstable in shapes and colors, rooted in her imagination.