SUYU CHEN | The beauty of Transformation

The beauty of Transformation
SUYU CHEN

“It is a game between objects and myself; through using the same artifact as a basic module, the variation and transformation of forms have no end. All feeling and thinking will subtly reveal on the surface through layered painting and sanding with honest mistakes and imperfections.”
-Suyu Chen

Originally from Guangzhou, China, Suyu Chen is living and working as a contemporary jewelry artist at the Rochester Institute of Technology after graduating from the MFA program. Suyu received a BA from the Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, China. She also studied at RISD and Kunstuniversität Linz, Austria. Her works have been exhibited nationally and internationally, including at the Beijing International Jewellery Exhibition, JOYA in Barcelona, Spain, NYC Jewelry Week, and Burchfield Penny Art Center in Buffalo, NY.

“I explore relationships between practices and rituals, artificial objects, and their interconnection by composing jewelry related to forms and marks. Similarities among traditional art-making processes, industrial production, and art training I received, which all required massive and repetitive actions, led to my interest in experimental practices of combining artificial objects. It is a game between objects and myself; through using the same artifact as a basic module, the variation and transformation of forms have no end; All feeling and thinking will subtly reveal on the surface through layered painting and sanding with honest mistakes and imperfections. My work aims to change the viewer’s perception of objects and materials through observation.”

-Suyu Chen

See the full article in Art Market Magazine Issue #83