Danni Shinya Luo
"Chaotic Harmony"
April 1 - May 1, 2011
Opening Reception: Friday, April 1st; 8-11 PM
Danni Shinya Luo's female forms breathe with a sensuality and intuition that will shatter your preconceptions about her chosen medium, the watercolor painting. Shinya's fluid and organic figures are quite lovely, full of feminine mystery and romance. Her colorful animals are magnificently fierce, emanating a primal magnetism that is practically pheremonic. In Chaotic Harmony, using whimsical and subtly erotic figures, the interactions of human beings with their avatars from the animal kingdom convey modern psychological truths while relating age-old mythologies. The concept of this new collection is birthed from the artist's own internal world; her past experiences are transformed into physical creatures, textures and color palettes. The subtextural inclusion of archetypal symbolism is never forced nor heavy-handed, but further enriches the central, "surface" view with allegorical depth –a reward for those willing to investigate just a bit further...
Originally from Shanghai, China, Danni Shinya Luo moved to California in 1995. She fell in love with art in grade school and after a few years of private study (and an apprenticeship with Chinese watercolor master, Ding Ha) was accepted into Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, where she majored in illustration and graduated with honor in 2006. Quickly transitioning from recent-art-school-student to next-big-thing, Shinya participated in key group shows, select solo exhibitions, and saw her work published in periodicals like Bust and Initiativa, books like Eye Candy and Sugar & Spice, as well as design projects like Nickelodeon's Neopets and a line of toy dolls for Hasbro. In the year that has passed since her last featured exhibition (2010's Spiritual Deficiencies), Shinya has published (and completely sold-out of) a collected volume of her gallery exhibited work, Breaking the Ice. She also helped develop the re-branding of Marvel Comics' signature female mutant X-23 (providing the cover art for the first three issues). Later this year, her second book, Soft Candy: The Art of Danni Shinya Luo, will be released through seminal art publisher Last Gasp Books, featuring a collection of 200 full color pages of brand-new drawings and paintings, including those featured in Chaotic Harmony.
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