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AI JING
All the World is Green
Helen J Gallery is thrilled to announce Ai Jing’s solo exhibition, All the World is Green – her first in Los Angeles and with the gallery.
Sun #1, 2023Gold Mica and Mixed Media on Canvas
Moon #2, 2023Gold Mica and Mixed Media on Canvas
18⅞ x 18⅞ in.
Love in Gold #1, 2023Gold in Mica and Mixed Media on Canvas43 x 35 in.
Ai Jing’s artistic exploration, which includes both sculpture and painting, is imbued with profound sentiment, life, and a feeling of purity.
The song "All the World is Green" by Tom Waits, with its blend of hopefulness and melancholy, aligns with Ai's exhibition title and reflects her overall perspective. She endeavors to maintain this emotional bond through her art.
Mr.R #10, 2018Oil on Canvas
59 x 59 in.
I Love Color #62, 2019-2021Oil & oil sticks on Canvas
35⅜ x 35⅜ in.
Ai's creative practice revolves around the theme of love.
Experienced individuals understand that love is inherently challenging and might be considered synonymous with hardship. She realized after some time that everything is about love and derives from love; the challenge is to discover a means of presenting and releasing this insight. The symbol transcends its mere representation and elicits recollections, events, scents, and the fundamental influences that mold our existence.
Girl and Swing, 2018, Mixed Media, 47¼ x 15¾ x 15¾ in. Ai only started to sense a desire for home after achieving global acclaim and spending several years living overseas.
During her youth, Ai had a strong desire to leave where she was raised, but now she is actively searching for a feeling of coming back. Ai's investigation into painting, film, and installation art has been motivated by this nostalgic sensation. Her sculpture, Girl and Swing, depicts a brief moment from Ai Jing's childhood, depicting her with her head thrown back in exuberant laughing, her hair fashioned in a bowl cut. It projects depict the delightful moments experienced by several children of factory workers in the past. This is a memory of happiness that were reality. The hyperrealistic statue is juxtaposed with block-color artworks and a meticulously replicated grassy environment, mirroring the artist's internal landscape through vivid shades of dazzling sun and sprawling greenery.
Details of one of Ai Jing’s oil on canvas paintings“I believe we are all small in the universe, nothing against a virus, or technology, or development, or transformation. But art has power because it allows you to feel something, and to reach for something.” -Ai Jing
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