Yi Cynthia Chen

Tiny details in my paintings reveal each story. If one steps close enough, one sees rhizomes unearthing and forming roots, often emerging from architectural constructs, or false objects eclipsed by imagined scenes. My paintings are storytellers, each one stemming from tensions between opposing sides. The canvas is almost a visual courtroom, aiming to reveal as many perspectives of the narrative as possible in order to find a workable mediation. Faced with wrongdoings, dichotomies, ironies, the act of painting can expose new visual pathways. In this way, I view painting as a form of visual problem solving.