2025/01/30
The exhibition “Su Yu-Xin: Searching the Sky for Gold,” co-organized by the Taiwan Academy, a division of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Center in Los Angeles, and the Orange County Museum of Art (OCMA) in California, will be on display on January 31 to May 25.
Su Yu-Xin is an emerging new-generation Taiwanese artist. After obtaining a master’s degree from the Slade School of Fine Art in London in 2016, her works have been exhibited in London, Dubai, Shanghai and other places. She also participated in the 2018 Asian Art Biennale in Taiwan. This exhibition presents 28 works created by artist Su Yu-Xin; delving into the materiality of color and transforming natural and synthetic materials into pigments, she represents various atmospheric and geological phenomena in her paintings.
In this exhibition, she explores amorphous and seemingly invisible substances that have colored, tangible foundations: salt air along the California coastline, underground mine fires in Utah, volcanic dust over the Pacific Ocean, etc., to challenge modern color systems by investigating aspects they often overlook—the origins, functions, migrations, and potential futures of color. One of the works, “Water Close to Land #2 (Coastal Road on the East Side of Taiwan),” has been collected by the museum permanently. This work uses soil, conch shells, lake pigment, orpiment, purple shale, ochre, Dupont titanium dioxide, and other substances to reproduce the wonders of the fault coast, which reflects the artist’s life experience in eastern Taiwan.
“OCMA was established by 13 women and remains valuing female artists’ works. This is the first time for both parties to work together in promoting Taiwanese artists with the sponsorship of Taiwan’s Ministry of Culture,” said Mark Te-Yuan Chien, the Director of the Taiwan Academy in Los Angeles. “Su Yu-Xin’s works are based on the Pacific landscape, echoing the characteristics of the immigrant society in California, and are aimed to promote more cross-cultural dialogue.”
“Su Yu-Xin’s captivating process—collecting natural materials and crafting pigments herself to create fluid contemporary landscapes—is both innovative and inspiring,” said Heidi Zuckerman, OCMA’s CEO and Director. “Her work offers a sensory exploration of landscape as an interconnected ecosystem, revealing the vibrant and volatile forces shaping our world.”
For more information about the exhibition, please visit the museum’s official website: https://ocma.art/exhibitions/su-yu-xin-searching-the-sky-for-gold/
Liaison:
Tingchao Chang, Cultural Officer of Taiwan Academy
EMAIL：tcchang@moc.gov.tw
PHONE：+1 (213) 389-1215 ext. 315
