Wei Gao
Long term spiritual food and some real bread
Exhibition June 1–June 5 2021
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Bolsky Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design
9045 Lincoln Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90045
The exhibition will be available for viewing online after June 4 at https://www.otis.edu/mfa-fine-arts-thesis-exhibitions/2021
“I am mixing fiction writing, drawing, and music to reveal art-making’s commonality in various forms. Long term spiritual food and some real bread is a multimedia art project. It’s a story about a special generation that grew up in Beijing in the 1990s while figuring out the maze of life and the idea of being a human. I also created a soundtrack and a series of digital drawings from the same gene pool: the book’s emotion. I am exploring methods of combining graphics, text, and various narrative strategies.
I started to write “the cut” at the beginning of the Coronavirus pandemic. When people cannot show their faces in public, we rely on other senses to believe in something. I locked myself in the garage and typed out the sentences that have been stuck in my throat. I began to recall protagonists and plots that I would never conjure under other circumstances.
I used my iPad to create daily drawings and meditate during the writing breaks. The artwork in this book is all digital, and all produced during writing breaks. I felt like Covid-19 helped me dig into the digital world to create art, and my stubborn ego still prefers the look of old techniques of drawing and painting but translated into the virtual universe.” —Wei Gao
Wei Gao is an interdisciplinary artist, musician, and writer who has exhibited works internationally. He has held solo art exhibitions in Los Angeles, Beijing, and Shanghai. He is also a veteran journalist. In recent years, Wei Gao has been active in the field of future mobility. More info at: weigao.us.
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June 06, 2021
