Ye Cheng is a Chinese-American artist currently based in New York. Ye Cheng graduated with a MFA degree in Fine Art from the New School at Parsons, New York in 2022. And a BFA degree in painting from Maryland Institute College of Art in 2016. Ye Cheng exhibited in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Beijing. Her work was selected and featured in e-flux Education and Artnet.
Bright, bold colors on a deep black background and the impossible, Escher-like spaces, Cheng’s deceptively intricate and surreal architectural paintings center on conceptions of home and hybridity. The painting series Memory map shows abstracted and distorted places from memory - a garden, an apartment building, Ye seeks to explore her relationship with home, both as a physical place and as an idea. Ye questions whether the feelings of safety and longing are attached to real locations or spaces that exist only in her memory and imagination, emphasizing the comfort of home and the destabilization that occurs when disconnected from it.
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