Li Luo, Chinese artist specialising in painting, textiles and ceramics. Li Luo was born in 1990 in Sichuan, China. A graduate of business administration from Shanghai Jiaotong University, she specializes in oil painting, acrylic paint and textiles. In 2019 she began using textiles and natural dyes to create a series entitled: “Yinyang and the Five Processes”. Throughout 2020 she continued to deepen her engagement with this theme in the field of oil-painting.Li Luo has never received any formal artistic education, basing her unique artistic style on a love for traditional Chinese culture and an innate passion for experiment and creation.
Li Luo’s “Yinyang and the Five Processes” series engages the structural details of an ancient and sophisticated Chinese philosophical tradition. Determined primarily by calendrical dates (birthdays, weddings, etc.), each individual work in the series is related to an event in her life. As such, the series as a whole constitutes a biographical record of Li Luo’s life, representing an artistic universe in which life and creation are coextensive. Believing that every entity in the universe possesses its own unique form of beauty, Li Luo engages with philosophical speculation as a potent means of expressing human aesthetic imagination. By making use of the “translational capacities” spontaneously present in human intuition, she strives to break the individual limits of subjective perception, fashioning an individual artistic language that constitutes the foundation of a colorful and abundant aesthetic universe. She believes that, for the purposes of self-expression, art is the most vital and appropriate medium available.
Before deciding to devote her life to art, Li Luo worked at a number of jobs, most pertinently as a fashion designer and an art gallery guide. While she has not received any formal artistic education, her deep aesthetic intuition is able to directly express pure and simple artistic truths. Because her style has not undergone the ornate polishing of an institutional education, it possesses a strange and vivid quality, serving as a natural and incisive vehicle of artistic expression.