Laurence
Miller Gallery 20 West 57th Street New York City 212.397.3930
For immediate release 4.22.04
Contact: Vicki Harris vicki@laurencemillergallery.com
Hours: Tues - Fri 10 - 5:30, Sat 11 - 5:30
DoDo
Jin Ming
water fire earth air
May 20 – June 30, 2004
Reception for the artist, Thursday, May 20, 6 - 8pm
Laurence
Miller Gallery will feature haunting, powerful and intriguing works by
Chinese-born artist DoDo Jin Ming from May 20 – June 30, 2004. water
fire earth air represents a synthesis of two bodies of work that derive
their imagery from the awesome power of nature: dramatic seascapes from
the series Free Element, and mysterious and intriguing sunflowers from
the series Behind My Eyes. Included will be grand, large-scale gelatin
silverprints of wild and turbulent seas, and toned silverprints of hooded
sunflowers, which seem to be marching to a distant heaven. In concert,
these two series form a tangible realization of the artist’s impetus
to give visual expression to the inner life of the soul.
DoDo Jin
Ming was trained initially as a classical violinist (her given name DoDo
refers to the note in the musical scale) and the idea of music as inspiration
permeates every aspect of her imagery. Her churning seascapes crash, divide
and swell like a symphony of orchestral sound. The sunflowers of Behind
My Eyes play to a different tune, a more organized sense of movement,
like a corps de ballet or band marching in unison. Particularly awesome
are six diptychs, each populated by sunflowers in different states of
growth or decay. Some are hooded as protection from birds; others have
begun to die, and lie closer to the ground. All contain multiple images
of specimens that seem human in form and movement, calling to mind the
powerful video images of Shirin Neshat’s Iranian women on the beach.
water fire
earth air is DoDo Jin Ming’s third solo show at Laurence Miller
Gallery. Her recent three-person exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago,
with Gustave LeGray and Hiroshi Sugimoto, was critically acclaimed and
reveals an artist in command of her medium. Ms. Jin Ming was born in Beijing,
and presently resides in New York City.
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