153:(1998), "an elaborately carved and painted male figure sits atop a bronze horse". Bronze horses, together with their riders, are often mass-produced, accompanying a nobleman in burial as the representation of his lifelong possession. "Chu's use of a figure mounted on a horse results from a general interest in these types of burial figures". Knowing that different materials create a distinct visual presence, Chu pairs bronze with wood. In this sculpture, "the bronze horse shares a patchy, expressive painting style with the figure. Head cocked to one side, one hand on his chest and the other raised in an extended gesture, the ballplayer is poised to throw". Their symbolic gestures suggest that horses and their riders not only indicate an individual's status in ancient China, but also serve as a necessity for political survival.
214:"But Chu's big toys are suavely cosmopolitan with their ranging allusions and shifting identifications, their syncopated construction energies of cutting and stitching, their mix of high artifice and practicality. The work recruits historic precursors from China and Europe with a fluid anthropological imagination. We are invited to eavesdrop on lively conversations between Chu and the art of museums; their talk is intimate, affable, mischievous, and filled with affectionate expansiveness. Chu's robust works neither depict other depictions nor are they pure products of the imagination. They are hybrid singularities that ardently perform both possibilities".
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anything. "Even their incompleteness emphasizes their confinement to a world of material objects: wires spring out, seams show, and wood splinters or splits". They seem to be manipulated by forces beyond their recognition. On the one hand, "Chu's sculptures argue for a secret life as a materials-oriented abstraction, the formalism disguised as vernacular figuration. The ad hoc use of wood, wire, and cloth is, in this argument, only pretending to serve the theatrical content". On the other hand, the sculptures are "expressive self portraits" that reflect the social conformity and uncontrollable performances that entangle the artist.
130:, a curator at the Berkeley Museum of Art, Anne Chu explores issues in sculpture and painting by "infusing painting into materials that are themselves used in unexpected ways. By shifting conventional expectations of the appearance of sculpture, the artist allows a reconsideration of the familiar." For example, she uses "traditional Chinese artifacts as a base from which to work". She has remade "T'ang dynasty ceramic funerary figures, sculpted Asian and Western–inspired landscapes, and painted luminous watercolors characterized by a subtle tension between abstraction and figuration".
184:(1999), "a multi–storied Han–style tower cast from bright orange urethane is surveyed by a cast-iron guardian figure that is suspended from the ceiling". Here, in opposition to realistic proportions, "Chu makes the figure and the tower approximately the same size. The grimace of the guardian figure's face is perhaps intended to ward off intruders or evil spirits. As another means of establishing a dynamic and disconcerting relationship between the two objects, the gnarled surface of the bronze body contrasts with the smooth, elegant surface of the tower".
195:"Ropes connect the puppets's arms and heads to an out-of-reach puppeteer's frame on the ceiling, while they remain frozen, like all artworks, in postures eternally soliciting attention". Their passive performance is ended by the time when Chu finished the work of sewing, sawing and assembling in her studio. Now, they tell the story of their own making: "Wire frames are ingeniously clothed to become torsos. Heads and hands are chopped from wood with a rough vigor that could be called violent if the characters’s storybookish dispositions weren't so benign.
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Chinese artisans, Chu also creates the "same figures repeatedly". While Chu's images are reminiscent of known icons, they stand somehow "separate, tentative, and thus more powerful for their subtle distortions or personalizations". "Chu has created sculpture in a variety of different sizes". Her interest in scale, however, usually relates to disproportionate human scale that serves other purposes. She uses this element as a "sensory trigger" to encourage alternative interpretations. In
168:(1999) were displayed without the title and removed from the context of her other works, one would take the drawing as purely abstract". True to the medium of watercolor, it is loosely painted in bright colors at the bottom of its animated and elongated shapes. Knowing Chu's "idiosyncratic color schemes", "the juxtaposition of yellow with lavender, red with olive green, and rose with chocolate brown" may refer to "a waterfall flowing through a rough mountain landscape, with the sun burning through a foggy morning".
237:"Dangling limply from the ceiling, the goat is a marionette without a play. Its eerie deconstructed form is also reminiscent of a butchered animal". Yet the haphazardness expressed through its appearance free the viewers from this dark implication. "It is a humble creature, a modest offering — but at the same time, an unspoken challenge, like it or not".
110:“Ms. Chu was the recipient of the 2001 Penny McCall award and was awarded grants from the Anonymous Was a Woman Foundation and the Joan Mitchell Foundation”. “Her work has been widely exhibited, including at the Dallas Art Museum, the Berkeley Art Museum, and the Indianapolis Museum of Art”. Her work may also be found in the permanent collection of the
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features — a waxy, blue, winking and slightly contorted face — its character depends on who tries it on for size and fills it with their presence". As such, this art work, featuring an object, becomes far more than a "cast-resin pseudo-soft-sculpture creation", implying the animation of the lifeless through human intervention.
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Chu's work consists largely of bold mixed-media sculptures in "wood, metal, resin, fabric, leather, or porcelain, as well as delicate watercolors and ink-based works on paper". She often combined "figures and animals with elements drawn from folklore; just as often, however, her work could be nearly
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In her shift from the "full figure to the portrait bust", Chu again focuses on what characterizes an individual: the face. And again, "she imposes an individuality on the T'ang figures". "The people in these new portrait busts are copies of Chu's burial figures (which are of course copies of T'ang
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This piece of work unveils Chu's tendency to "blur the line between useful object and conceptual creation". Between the bear’s head and shoulders, there is a faint line: "a seam, like that of a mask or headpiece of a costume for a mascot, or for theatre". "While the bear has its own distinctive
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Left of a Pair(2008), Epipsychidion(2008), Birds of Prey(2008), Dancing Girl on Wood(2008), Right in a Pair(2008), Rietberg
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