MadeIn Gallery is pleased to announce that our artist Su Yu-xin (b.1991, Hualien, Taiwan) is going to have her solo exhibition \u201cSearching the Sky for Gold\u201d at the Orange County Museum of Art (OCMA). It is Su\u2019s first solo museum exhibition outside Asia. Presenting a new body of work created specifically for the exhibition, the Los Angeles-based artist explores various atmospheric and geological phenomena in her paintings, delving into the materiality of color. Transforming natural and synthetic materials into pigments, Su uses these colored substances as both the medium for paintings and the focus of her research. The exhibition will be on view from January 31\u2013May 25, 2025. <\/p>\n
\u201cSu Yu-Xin\u2019s captivating process\u2014collecting natural materials from Malibu to the coasts of Taiwan and crafting her own pigments to create fluid contemporary landscapes\u2014is both innovative and inspiring,\u201d said Heidi Zuckerman, CEO and Director. \u201cHer work offers a sensory exploration of landscape as an interconnected ecosystem, revealing the vibrant and volatile forces shaping our world. We are honored to present her US solo museum debut.\u201c<\/p>\n
Driven by a profound interest in the materiality of color, Su examines how pigments are extracted from the Earth\u2019s crust through processes like mining, grinding, and refining, and how color is attributed as a property based on the physical sources from which it derives. She challenges modern color systems by investigating aspects they often overlook\u2014the origins, functions, migrations, and potential futures of color. <\/p>\n
Searching the Sky for Gold, explores amorphous and seemingly invisible substances that have colored, tangible foundations: salt air along the California coastline, hot springs in Japanese onsen, underground mine fires in Utah, smog in Chinese mountains, volcanic dust over the Pacific Ocean, and nuclear gases in New Mexico. The atmosphere in Su\u2019s work is not a void but a gaseous mixture of smoke, sulfides, volatiles, and flammable substances, evoking both wonder and risk. <\/p>\n
The exhibition is organized and curated by Ziying Duan, OCMA\u2019s Assistant Curator. Supporting sponsorship of Su Yu-Xin: Searching the Sky for Gold is provided by the Taiwan Academy of Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Los Angeles and the Ministry of Culture of Taiwan.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":9032,"template":"","tags":[71],"exhibitions_type":[8],"class_list":["post-8921","exhibitions","type-exhibitions","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-suyuxin","exhibitions_type-museum-exhibitions"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madeingallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibitions\/8921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madeingallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibitions"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madeingallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/exhibitions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madeingallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.madeingallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madeingallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8921"},{"taxonomy":"exhibitions_type","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.madeingallery.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/exhibitions_type?post=8921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}