Bicheng Liang
Bio: Bicheng Liang, born in China, now lives and works in New York. His work is multifaceted including large sculpture installations, photography, ceramics, and printmaking. He focuses on the subtle traces of time in the landscape and natural materials. Liang’s work has been exhibited at museums both nationally and internationally, including Curatorial Practice in School of Visual Arts, New York, CAFA Art Museum and Tsinghua University Art Museum, China; International Print Triennial Society in Krakow, Poland.
Liang is the co-founder of Alchemyverse Collective, an artist duo which will be the 2021 AIR at LMCC and 2022 AIR with La Wayaka Current.
www.bichengliang.com
Instagram: @bicheng_liang
Thesis Exhibition
Artist Statement: I investigate our relationship to time, scale, and meaning through processed-based interactions with sites and materials, with concepts arising from a deep physical engagement in the environment. For me, the printmaking process—layering, masking, transferring a repository of information— provides a channel through which the works of sculpture, photography, and ceramics converge and reveal traces of the natural marking of the world. I create experiences to explore mediated perception and layered information: how do we perceive the world as we live through it—nature versus artificiality, truth versus fiction, life versus decay.
In my practice, natural objects become the index of geologic time. Their form and anatomy: the texture, weight, color, temperature, and volume, unfold in time while intertwined with the work’s substances, actualizing an intuitive and poetic experience. We are part of nature yet outside of it. And this tension can only be relayed by an unspoken exchange of feelings. My work stands for the confluence of nature and culture as a process of transference and translation emblematic of the interchange between humanity and the natural world.
Stir, Full of, Abounding In, (84" x 120" x 3," Cyanotype collage, rocks, pit fired ceramic fragments, 2021); Left Without The Means To Move, (204" x 204" x 180," Lava rocks, anodized aluminum, bone conductors, pit fired wild clay and sound recorded within, desert soil, amplified microphones, speakers, subwoofers, and other mixed media, 2021)
First Year Exhibition
Bicheng Liang and Yixuan Shao, Bleikr, (92 x 96 x 84 in, Cyanotypes on Japanese paper, twelve-channel spatialized sound, transducers, bench box, 2020)
Bicheng Liang and Yixuan Shao, 隙 / At Intervals, (72 x 108 x 30 in, Earth and fire on aluminum sheets, 2021)
Open Studios
