Grace Tao – Artist Biography
Painter and Senior Designer working in the industry of visual arts for years.
2007-2010 Concordia University, BFA, Montreal, Canada
Major: Painting & Drawing
Minor: Computation Arts
Grace Tao – Artist Statement
Art is an expression of emotion. If the process of touching oneself can also be conveyed to the viewer, it is an effective and silent resonance. Like many artists, the rich experience in life is my source of inspiration. Years of immigrant life, family life, and work experience have continuously enriched what I want to say as “painting”.
Post-Impressionism, Byzantium and David Hockney are the schools and painters that have a great influence on me at this stage. Their mechanisms, colours and compositions are never boring to watch.
Machinery is one of the subjects I like to paint very much, because it is very similar to my experience of life. It has both the layered beauty of the structure, which is fascinating, and at the same time, it also makes people trapped in some degree of irresistible operation. The process of painting machinery is like an outlet for emotions. By 2024, I began to add another favorite element-nature, such as wood and flowers. This sense of picture makes the expression more complete: real and unreal, perfect and imperfect, the entanglement of freedom and discipline, the collision of nature and man-made, impossible connection, contradiction and harmony.
Grace Tao – 艺术家简介
画家，资深设计师。多年从事与艺术视觉相关工作。
2007-2010加拿大蒙特利尔康考迪亚大学, BFA, 美术学士学位。
主修绘画，辅修计算机艺术。
Grace Tao – 艺术家陈述
艺术是情绪的表达，触动自己的过程如果能同样传达至观者，就是一次有效的，无声共鸣。和很多艺术家一样，生活中的丰富体验是我灵感来源，多年的移民生活，家庭生活，和工作经历不断充实我想说的“画”。
后印象派，拜占庭以及David Hockney是现阶段我影响很大的流派和画 家，他们的机理，色彩和构图，百看不厌。
机械是我很喜欢画的一个题材之一，因为它和我对生活的体验感很像，它既有结构的层次美感，令人着迷，同时也让人受困于某些程度不可抗 拒的运转。绘画机械的过程像一个情绪的出口。到2024的时候，我开始加入另一个比较喜欢的元素-自然，比如木材，花卉，这种画面感让表达更完整：真实又不真实，完美又不完美，自由与纪律的纠缠，天然与人为的碰撞，连接不可能，矛盾又和谐。