artist statement

duality industries is a multidisciplinary practice in photography, painting, and installation. through the mathematical concepts of duality and superposition, i  interrogate consumer culture, technology, and human connection.

my painting practice extends and reverses a specific lineage: rothko's rectangle becomes the UI rounded rectangle; warhol's repetition reverses its arrow toward the viewer as participant; basquiat and neel give the unfinished mark; duchamp the readymade; koons the shiny colorful rounded surface. underlying this is the mathematical intuition that meaning is emergent, arising at the threshold between the simplest abstract shape and representational form. the color language is genealogical: ancient chinese imperial palettes are the origin of the flatness and soft pastels that modern UI design later absorbed and westernized. as a chinese artist working in the vocabulary of consumer technology, this is reclamation. the work also asks what is lost in the sterilization of the self — the smoothing of quirks to be liked. a key part of my process is the design principle of negative space--temporal and visual--which allows the paintings to breathe and the viewer-participant's eye to rest and focus.

this practice and gallery exists to bring art closer to humanity. we will never charge fees to artists. we aim to provide a space where viewers can exist, relax, feel welcomed, and leave restored.