About

Jia embraces the idea of her paintings serving as visualized narratives to the sculptures and vice-versa. The first of her family to become an artist, Jia is inspired by daily life—the personal and shared experiences, “the undifferentiated universality of objects,” and, perhaps most importantly, the humor of it all. Building upon her characteristic style that fuses a sense of whimsey and play with comedic wit and energized expressionism, Jia’s newest paintings take a turn towards greater abstraction.

While much of her previous work featured a Quentin Tarantino-inspired bride with an eye patch …