Yu-Wen Wu, Echo
Echo, 5:05, Boston Harbor (42°97’N 71°2’W), 2009
mixed media on canvas, diptych 48″ x 96″ x 2″. Courtesy of the Artist
New England Currents at the Danforth Museum
September 13 — November 8, 2009
Opening Reception Saturday, September 12, 6 – 8 pm
Gallery Talks Wednesday, September 23, 12 pm & Sunday, November 1, 4 pm
About the Artist
Artist Yu-Wen Wu was born in Taipei, Taiwan. She attended Brown University, where she received a Bachelor of Science before attending the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. She received the Massachusetts Cultural/ NEA Grant for Painting, 2004, 1998, 1989, and the Traveling Scholars Award, Fifth Year Competition, School of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA, 1989. The artist is represented by Miller Block Gallery, Boston, MA. Her work has been exhibited throughout New England and is held in major collections.
About the Exhibition
This work speaks of suspended time and the subjective realities of this suspended place where time moves infinitesimally. For a fraction of a moment perceptions are heightened. Then there is the first breath of release and time and our surroundings flow on. Within the format of a scroll, of a filmstrip, of a visual song cycle, the fluid and mutable identity of water and clouds parallel and juxtapose the structures of music, timetables and the mapping of activities. In a place between art and science, the fluid and the immutable, the intuitive and the concrete, the east and the west, the creations of nature and the creations of man, I search for intersections and a balance between seeming polarities.
Related Media
“Wayland artist’s work sings”
By Chris Bergeron, The MetroWest Daily News, October 8, 2009