Angela China
It's Green Where You Water It, 2023
Oil on canvas
72 x 70 in.
Angela China
Wildflower, 2023
Oil on canvas
80 x 66 in.
Angela China
Purple Landscape, 2023
Oil on canvas
104 x 80 in.
Angela China
Lovers, 2023
Oil on canvas
108 x 84 in.
Angela China
Garden of Eden, 2023
Oil on canvas
60 x 54 in.
Angela China
Artist's Studio, 2023
Oil on canvas
60 x 48 in.
Angela China
The Other Side, 2023
Oil on canvas
72 x 72 in.
Malin Gallery | New York is pleased to present, Girl on the Grass, a solo exhibition of work by Angela China. Featuring ten new paintings, Girl on the Grass is the artist's debut solo exhibition in New York and her first show with the gallery.
China's initial inspirations for this body of work were fleeting memories that evoked deep emotions and instigated spiritual yearnings. The exhibition's title, Girl on the Grass, superficially refers to the blissful sensation one feels when laying outside on a warm summer day. For China, this scenario also alludes to such moments when the mind has space for contemplation and meditation on the natural surroundings. From a metaphysical perspective, China considers the works to be expressions of creation in its diverse manifestations: biological, artistic and contemplative.
From her singular perspective, China considers the act of painting as a means of fostering her own evolution. The paintings featured in Girl on the Grass are her first body of work that largely eschews narrative and figuration. China approached the creation of these works without premeditated themes, instead allowing her own process of creation to guide the work. She strives to respond to each canvas with intention and acceptance - approaches that extend beyond painting into all parts of her life. China says of these works:
Each of the paintings is like a memory, but a memory that is more of an "idea" or "emotion" that is not fundamentally rooted in a moment in time. My hope is that the ambiguity and abstraction of the work promotes a phenomenological state wherein the viewer can have a direct, unmediated experience of the work.
