Vivian Chen - Vanity Metrics
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Vivian (Ke-Wei) Chen was born in 1999 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. She is currently a senior completing her B.A. degree in Art Practice at University of California, Berkeley. Chen works in both traditional and digital mediums. She works primarily with oil, acrylic, charcoal, and sculptural work. As an artist, she draws inspiration from observing everyday scenes and improvisational happenings. Her works explore gender, identity, and social issues through a combination of realism and abstraction.Vivian (Ke-Wei) Chen was born in 1999 in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. She is currently a senior completing her B.A. degree in Art Practice at University of California, Berkeley. Chen works in both traditional and digital mediums. She works primarily with oil, acrylic, charcoal, and sculptural work. As an artist, she draws inspiration from observing everyday scenes and improvisational happenings. Her works explore gender, identity, and social issues through a combination of realism and abstraction.
"Vanity Metrics” details: utilizing contemporary palette and brushstrokes.
Artist Statement:
“Vanity Metrics” is an acrylic diptych painting. The piece examines the strangeness of conventional spectatorship, as well as visualizing solitary under social media pollution.
During the making of this work, I was constantly thinking about the story of Narcissus in Greek mythology. Perhaps we all have this little part of him in us- the selfies we take, the attentions we crave, are drowning us into the pool of conventional expectation. Living in the society of spectacles, what does it take to stop the flashy numbers, so-called vanity metrics, from overriding the power of self validation? What may diverging from such toxicity be like in a modern context?
"Vanity Metrics” details: utilizing contemporary palette and brushstrokes.
