Feb 02 – Feb 26, 2023                

McGuffey Art Center, Charlottesville, Va. 22902           

Outside In

JING SHUI

Jing Shui, 11pm, 2023. Oil on Canvas, 16″ x 20″ 41 cm x 51 cm

– My parents waited in a long line to get a Covid test at 11pm in Sichuan, Meishan, China.

Jing Shui, Recycling Center, 2023. Oil on Canvas, 16″ x 20″ 41 cm x 51 cm (left)

– Transformation of the Recycling Center into a Covid testing station.

Jing Shui, Sex Toys Store, 2023. Oil on Canvas, 16″ x 20″ 41 cm x 51 cm (right)

– Transformation of a Sex Toys Store into a Covid testing station.

Jing Shui, Three Hours, 2023. Oil on Canvas, 18″ x 24″ 46 cm x 61 cm 

– My friend had to wait for 3 hours to get a Covid test in Beijing in the freezing winter.

Jing Shui, Baby, 2023. Oil on Canvas, 16″ x 20″ 41 cm x 51 cm

– Will Covid leave a mark in baby’s memory? It creates complicated feelings for me.

Jing Shui, Mama, 2023. Oil on Canvas, 8″ x 8″ 20 cm x 20 cm 

– Mama lives on the other side of the world. There are 7735 miles between her and me.

Jing Shui, Jing, 2023. Oil on Canvas, 8″ x 8″ 20 cm x 20 cm

– That moment.

Exhibition view of Jing Shui : Outside In.

McGuffey Art Center, Charlottesville, Va. 22902

Press release

This exhibit is my half outsider/half insider view about Chinas COVID  stories. I live in the USA, and my parents and many of my Chinese friends live in China. So I live in two different worlds every day. My Chinese family and friends have shared their COVID era life stories with me during the past three years. I half understand/half dont understand what Chinese people have experienced during these unbelievable times. Their experience have had some aspects in common with the people I know in the USA, but some of their experience have been very different in some ways that make deep marks in my mind. As an artist, I have the opportunity to express those curious moments in my paintings, and to chronicle these times through my art. Someday when I look back upon these paintings, I hope Ill be more able to understand these two countriesdifferent experience in the time of COVID.