YING HU
Ying Hu was born in Beijing, China in 1950. She learned calligraphy at the age of ten, and experienced the Cultural Revolution firsthand as a teenager and young adult. She relocated to the United States in 1988 and currently works and lives in a suburb of Boston in the U.S. She has taught Chinese language and culture at Harvard University, Tufts University, Boston College and Bentley College in Massachusetts. At the latter two, she taught Chinese calligraphy. Ying Hu’s recent works have been in acrylic, ink and mixed media.
Her experiences both during and after the Cultural Revolution profoundly influenced her, and nurtured her creative expression, influencing later themes and elements of her art. At the beginning of her artistic career, Ying Hu worked in Chinese watercolor and ink. Most of her paintings dealt with themes of good fortune, health and longevity, happiness and success in Chinese culture. Later, Ms. Hu developed her artwork by bringing her Chinese brush painting techniques to contemporary abstraction, substituting canvas for rice paper and using acrylics and mixed media on canvas, paper, etc. Some works represent the nature of the world through the buildup and composition of numerous brush strokes. Over the course of time, the scale of her work has been steadily increasing, and she now produces works far larger than traditional calligraphy ever intended.
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