The Flat Files from Turley Gallery

LIU KINCHELOE
Born 1985 in Torrance, CA. Lives and works in Brooklyn.
BIO
Liu Kincheloe relates ornament to its esoteric capacity, referencing alchemical and tantric texts and diagrams that often assign families of correspondence, association, and meaning to familiar forms and natural elements. Creating patterns may be approached as a devotional experience or a divination process—the geometries that emerge in kaleidoscope reflection have an elemental signature and reflect elemental characters. Local form, its placement, color, and numerical weight take on esoteric symbolism as works aspire to be functional sigils or talismans. The structural geometry or ‘skeleton’ of the paintings often start with a motif unfolded in mirror symmetry—where new forms appear in the axis of reflection. Symmetry expands the energy of that original motif or selection, and makes it readable, like a tarot card, and new forms are serially found and culled in these sets of transformations. The inter-relationship of form within a flat pattern is special because neighboring forms co-create each other—positive form and negative space become interchangeable in daisy chain resonance. In this way, a symmetrical pattern is a device to denote transcendence and painting them is an act of embodying that relationship.
EDUCATION
2021 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Alumni Summer, Madison, ME
2013 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Madison, ME
2012 MFA Painting, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
2009 BFA Studio Art, The University of Texas, Austin, TX
2009 BA Psychology, The University of Texas, Austin, TX
EXHIBITIONS
2020 Taking with the Left Hand, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, New York.
2017 Thing Gap Method, SPRING/BREAK Art Show, New York.
2013 A LA CARTE, MINIMAL ART, Shoot the Lobster, New York.
2012 Prolonged Exposure, The Invisible Dog via Recession Art, Brooklyn.