Graduated from National Taiwan Academy of Arts, Hsu Yu-Jen abandoned the practice of ink painting for oil painting while still at art school, only to return to it many years later. His works bring alive an integral dimension of literati art, in that the poetic voice and the writing hand come together to create the visual imagination. Hsu is also the author of the poetry inscribed on his paintings. The artist has invented a very personal brush language to capture a sense of crystalline transparency in the structure of spatial objects. Depicting places in Taiwan familiar to the artist, the images embody a luminosity and architectural spatial structure that reflects the sensibility of a city dweller amid glass towers.
