Ed Pien
Artist Statement
This is the very first time Pien has used hand-made paper as a starting point to explore drawing where the “graphic trace” comprises actual material, form and space. In this work, the charged serpentine lines suggests chaotic and wreathing bodies crowned with cutout shapes of heads.
Ed Pien, It Always Happens, flax paper with hand sewn thread, 11 x 12 x 18 inches, limited series of 2 unique pieces, Courtesy of Birch Contemporary, Toronto
Bio
Ed Pien has shown work at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; The Goethe Institute, Berlin; The Drawing Center, NYC; the AGO; Oboro, Montreal; Macintosh Gallery, London; The BlueCoate, Liverpool; Art Gallery of Greater Victoria; the Musée des beaux arts and Musée d’Art Contemporain, Montreal; Songzhuang Art Centre, Beijing, and the National Art Gallery of Canada. He recently participated in Oh Canada, MASS MoCA, the Sydney, Moscow and Beijing Biennales. Pien teaches part-time at the University of Toronto and is represented by Birch Contemporary,Toronto; Pierre-François Ouellette Art Contemporain, Montreal, and Galerie Maurits van de Laar, The Hague.
