About Huang Li-Ying (黃立穎)
Huang Li-Ying (b. 1993) is a Changhua born, Taipei-based artist. He graduated with a master’s degree in fine arts from National Taiwan University of Arts. In 2019, Huang awarded both Kaohsiung Award and CTBC Arts Award. He has been invited to several group exhibitions in Taipei, and has held three solo exhibitions in the same year awarded. The exhibitions are respectively The Truthy Stone, located in NTUA Nine Single Arts Practice Space and USR 329, and S.S Project, located in Hsinchu 241 Art Gallery. Huang uses his intuition to perceive from stones, that were born in nature. By gradually adding up layers of the pencil traces, he seeks for the sense of mysterious and specialty in his works.Confronting the stones, Huang receives the nature through truthiness, which he associates things in a straightforward way. It is transformed from the three-dimension reality to a two-dimension platform, then constructs into a whole new look with traits of the media and medium. As a result, his works have revealed a surrealism and cryptic feeling. In the single-colored or low-chroma drawings, he applies the reflective characteristic of pencil-drawings. Huang breaks through the usual measures learnt from his past trainings in sketching, instead, he accumulates the traces deeper as the light being more intense. Thus, looking the works from different angles, the appearance of the stone remains changing. As such, Huang combines his observation and imagination, so as to organize the whole new world in his works of art.