Project Space

Project Space
Xingze Li: Untitled Wall
On view through February 11, 2024

OyG is pleased to announce “Untitled Wall”, a solo exhibition by Brooklyn based artist, Xingze Li in our new Project space in OyG.

Untitled Wall incorporates a body of work spanning photography and flat objects inspired by mostly blank walls in domestic and semi-public spaces. Each wall has its sense of time, passage of light, and history of marks. Since 2016, the artist has lived in Brooklyn and the observation of these neutral constructs surrounding him offered a momentary room for reverie and relief when he feels disconnected from his hometown Yan'an, China. Immersing himself in the ambiguity and richness of the surface textures, and with the desire to preserve those moments, Li uses his cellphone camera to take images, often of his home, studio, a doorway, or a hotel room. He then turns those cellphone-captured photos into flat sculptural installations that appear intimate and ancient. Each of the works fuses the perspective of the scene when the artist was in front of those walls and surfaces. It emphasizes the specific appearance when the color, shade, and light all come together and make that moment special and personal.

Artist Bio
Xingze Li (b. 1992) is a multidisciplinary visual artist based in Brooklyn. He has exhibited and curated in China, America, and Denmark. He has had solo and two-person exhibitions in New York City at venues including Sweet Lorraine Gallery, Tutu Gallery, and Hunter East Harlem Gallery. Recent group exhibitions have taken place at the Cathouse Proper and Pratt Manhattan Gallery in New York City, Little Berlin in Philadelphia, and Carlsberg Byens Galleri & Kunstsalon in Copenhagen. He has curated shows including A Picnic State of Mind (2023), and F-1: Out Inside (2019) in Brooklyn, NY. Notable awards include the Marble House Project Residency, 77ART Residency, and Cope NYC Residency. Li earned his bachelor's degree in Oil Painting from Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts in 2015 and received his MFA in Painting and Drawing from Pratt Institute in 2019.