Ellicott City, MD | www.lillianchun.com | @lillian___chun
Lillian Chun (b. Allentown, PA 1989) is a mixed media artist and art educator. She earned her BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in 2011 and MAT in 2012. Chun currently lives and works in Ellicott City, MD. Her work has been featured in galleries in Maryland, New York and online international exhibitions. Paradoxical narratives surrounding time, womxn and motherhood, are often themes within her work.
Suspended between reality and a warping in space, Reclaimed, is a series of mixed media paintings that visualize the markings of our personal timeline. Over time, our bodies visibly become a time capsule with residue from our histories such as scars, stretch marks and wrinkles.
Energetic lines, slashes, tallies and scribbles layer upon the figure as documentation of their experiences, exposing the unseen fragments that womxn’s bodies accumulate.
These paintings derived from an ongoing photo series on medium format film, Unraveling, that investigates how womxn and mothers physically respond to anxiety, vulnerability, escapism and the act of carrying on. The subjects in the Reclaimed paintings were initially photographed in an anxious state, in their moments of unraveling. Through an intuitive process of combining image transfers, compiling imperfect marks and a disentanglement in painting, the subject is transported onto a new space where an enchanting sanctuary is created for them to counter their trajectory with anxiety and reclaim power.
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