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ARTIST STATEMENT:
“As an artist and technologist, Jennifer loves the beauty of equilibrium – it represents balance and long lasting. Through her unique lens of food sourcing, preservation, sculpturing, the project questions “what is forever? Can we capture the moment in time?” She selected 4 neighborhood eateries that impacted her significantly in 2020. The sculpture pieces are made of real food from the selected eateries – brioche, croissants, har gow (shrimp dumplings), manousheh (Lebanese flatbreads), coffee and cruller etc. This mixed- media project is experimental and complex – each food item is captured as an individual entity that represents equilibrium, physics in visual art form. Each sculpture piece is accompanied by photographs and audio captured on premise; Jennifer hopes to deliver an immersive experience to the audience and bring the audience with her on the adventures. Each sculpture installation represents Jennifer’s narrative about the eatery, her interpretation of the food items, and interesting stories told by the owners and culinary staff.”
BIO:
Born and raised in urban China then moved to Las Vegas at age of 16, Jennifer experienced education, art, culture, and community change during her journey where she embraced challenges and opportunities. Qian is considered a multidisciplinary artist and scientist – she pursued undergrad in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Information Science with focus on Human Computer Interaction at Cornell University. Growing up with rigorous science and math curriculum, Jennifer loves to indulge in dance, painting, and playing with various forms of medium when it comes to art. Currently Jennifer is a master student focusing on art and data science at New York University Gallatin. In her recent experiments, she combines the concept of math and science like time, kinetic energy into visual art form. During her art creation process, Jennifer documents the end to end iteration; valuable footage contributes to the final output of the project.
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