Announcing Maggie Jiang’s first solo exhibition, I-Ching Through Thick and Thin
(Seattle, WA) –May 5, 2022 – J. Rinehart Gallery announces our first solo exhibition with Chinese American artist Maggie Jiang. In I Ching Through Thick and Thin, Jiang incorporates the visual vocabulary of the sixty-four hexagrams found in the I-Ching into her work, exploring universality and fluid concepts of the I-Ching within modern geometric abstraction.
I-Ching Through Thick and Thin will be on view online and in the gallery June 25 – July 20, 2022. An opening reception will be held in the gallery Saturday June 25, 2022 from 3-6pm.
Born in Beijing and educated China and the U.S., Jiang’s life has led her down a multicultural path, inspiring her to create a visual language that can communicate across cultures.
While her painting practice is rooted in the tradition of geometric abstraction, finding influences in the work of Josef Albers, Piet Mondrian, and Frank Stella, her cultural Chinese heritage has her fascinated by the I-Ching and its emphasis on continuous change as a way of being.
This duality is present in the works in the exhibition; combining the geometric rigor of the hexagrams (appealing to her ongoing expression of hard- edged abstraction) while also being influenced by the philosophical ideas expressed in the I-Ching.
In addition to her solo show at the gallery, Jiang will be exhibiting at the Asian Pacific Cultural Center in the Fall of 2022.
Of her work, Jiang says:
“I use accessible geometric and biomorphic forms in unexpected ways in order to invoke some of the most basic human emotions such as curiosity, wonder, joy, humor, tension and conflicts. While geometry tends to communicate clarity and absoluteness, my intention is for my work to live and breathe in a space of conflicts and ambiguity”
Maggie Jiang is a Seattle-based visual artist. She studied sculpture and printmaking at North Seattle College and attended the Trowbridge Atelier at Gage Academy in 2016-17. Exhibiting regularly since 2016, Jiang won 1st prize in 2016, and 3rd prize in 2018 in the Abstract Category at Best of Gage, and a selection of her work was published in the Licton Springs Review in 2019.