Yeni Mao Artist's Statement My work is the excavation of a visceral world, unfolding, collapsing, and regenerating. They are surreal semi-abstractions. The underlying structures are architectural and topographic landscapes. The overlays are sensual machinery plans, anatomical renderings, and the detailed lushness of plant life. Key images are doubled or flipped to mirror themselves, these dualities address contrasts between harmony and struggle. Natural properties of mimicry, symmetry, growth and adaptation are used to investigate larger social issues of extradition, migration, dual sexual natures, and dual cultural identities. The goal of my work is to infiltrate and scramble singular, fixed meanings; to depict the vital living process of physical and spiritual transformation, cultivating a visual vocabulary to inform issues of duality and metamorphosis in the realm of social and emotional politics. Images of work Brief CV EDUCATION 1993 BFA The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2004 Wrestlers, Flowers and Birds; Jon Tomlinson Enterprises, New York City Paintings and Drawings; Backbone, New York City 2003 Yeni Mao: Paintings/Drawings; Chela Gallery, Baltimore SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2006 Diversity and Solidarity; I-Gallery, New York City The Square Foot Show; Art Gotham, New York 2005 Dumbo Art Under The Bridge; Goodesign Studios, Brooklyn 2004 Houseworks; Heti Baker, Brooklyn 2002 Deviations Group Show; Nigel Hamill Gallery, New York City 2000 Our Dieties; Ise Cultural Center, New York City 1995 Moonlight Pour; Artworks Gallery, Berkeley 1994 Moonlight Pour; Artworks Gallery, Berkeley Rikshaw; Workspace, San Francisco 1993 DestinAsian; North Lakeside Cultural Center, Chicago Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago South Shore Cultural Center, Chicago Contact Email: yeni@yenimao.com Website: www.yenimao.com All content © the artists and EASTonline