Linling's profile
Linling Lu was born in 1983 in Guizhou Province, China. In 2005 she received a bachelor’s degree in Landscape Architecture from Beijing Forestry University. Lu came to the United States in 2006 to attend Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), Baltimore, MD, and received a BFA in painting with honor in 2008. She was awarded an MFA scholarship at the Hoffberger School of Painting, MICA, which she completed in May of 2011.
Lu’s work has been selected to exhibitions in the US, includes Delaware Art Museum Centennial Exhibition, (e)merge Art Fair, Maryland Art Place, as well as commercial galleries includes CONNERSMITH, HEMPHILL Fine Arts, etc. In 2011 Lu was invited by HEMPHILL Fine Arts, Washington DC to a 3 person Exhibition with Tomas Downing and Tom Green: Patterns, Three Generation of Color and Shape. Soon the HEMPHILL begins to work with the artist on her solo exhibition: LILAC, which took place in their main gallery, 2012, as a start of representation of Lu as one of the gallery artist.
Lu is not predisposed to see art as an extension of ego and not caught up by the calling of self-expression. Paintings from her series titled, “One Hundred Melodies of Solitude,” have been compared to the work of artists of the Washington Color School and color field painters of the 1960s and 1970s. Where color field painting was aggressive in relation to the architectural setting, Lu’s circle paintings lure the viewer away from the space in which the work is displayed and into an internal timeless meditative experience. Her solo exhibition: Lilac, 2012, was reviewed by Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, compare the One Hundred Melodies of Solitude series with the Taoist idea of Chi - the body’s internal energy; and mentioning the “most impressive aspects of the paintings are their purity and precision”.
With the awareness of the relation between internal energy and outer space, Lu deals with the energies between individual circle paintings, and put them together in compositions allow them become part of a more complicated picture, for one moment, or forever. In 2013, 4 groups of paintings from Lu’s One Hundred Melodies of Solitude series were displayed by City Center Project, Washington DC, as a permanent collection in the lobbies of their residential spaces located in the heart of the city.
In 2012 Linling Lu was granted with O-1 Visa (Artist with Extraordinary Ability) by US Immigration, and currently works in Maryland.
Lu’s work has been selected to exhibitions in the US, includes Delaware Art Museum Centennial Exhibition, (e)merge Art Fair, Maryland Art Place, as well as commercial galleries includes CONNERSMITH, HEMPHILL Fine Arts, etc. In 2011 Lu was invited by HEMPHILL Fine Arts, Washington DC to a 3 person Exhibition with Tomas Downing and Tom Green: Patterns, Three Generation of Color and Shape. Soon the HEMPHILL begins to work with the artist on her solo exhibition: LILAC, which took place in their main gallery, 2012, as a start of representation of Lu as one of the gallery artist.
Lu is not predisposed to see art as an extension of ego and not caught up by the calling of self-expression. Paintings from her series titled, “One Hundred Melodies of Solitude,” have been compared to the work of artists of the Washington Color School and color field painters of the 1960s and 1970s. Where color field painting was aggressive in relation to the architectural setting, Lu’s circle paintings lure the viewer away from the space in which the work is displayed and into an internal timeless meditative experience. Her solo exhibition: Lilac, 2012, was reviewed by Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, compare the One Hundred Melodies of Solitude series with the Taoist idea of Chi - the body’s internal energy; and mentioning the “most impressive aspects of the paintings are their purity and precision”.
With the awareness of the relation between internal energy and outer space, Lu deals with the energies between individual circle paintings, and put them together in compositions allow them become part of a more complicated picture, for one moment, or forever. In 2013, 4 groups of paintings from Lu’s One Hundred Melodies of Solitude series were displayed by City Center Project, Washington DC, as a permanent collection in the lobbies of their residential spaces located in the heart of the city.
In 2012 Linling Lu was granted with O-1 Visa (Artist with Extraordinary Ability) by US Immigration, and currently works in Maryland.
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