Nova Jiang
Works by Nova Jiang draw attention to urgent social and environmental issues by translating abstract, complex information into generous, playful, embodied experience. She has had recent exhibitions at LAXART, Los Angeles; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Telfair Museums, Savannah; National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung; ICC, Tokyo among other venues. She is the recipient of Fellowships from Skowhegan, Eyebeam and Wave Hill as well as major public art commissions in Los Angeles, Cambridge, Sacramento, Seattle, Charlotte and San Diego. She has presented her work at ICA LA, the Hammer Museum, UCLA, USC and Carnegie Mellon. She currently lives and works in Los Angeles.
Recent works by Nova Jiang address two primary concerns of our time: xenophobia and climate change. Through painting and sculpture,images, forms, and materials communicate ideas that exceed language. Familiar elements are juxtaposed and arranged in unexpected ways with the aim of communicating with people on a physical and perceptual level. In this way, Jiang hopes to create work that crosses cultural and linguistic barriers, reaching beyond cultural constructs to the core of what makes us all human.
