Education:
Ph.D in electronic music composition
M.A. in Education
M.A. Music composition
Events:
Chinese Calligraphy Workshop September 22-29, 2017 at the Firelands Association for the Visual Arts, Oberlin, Ohio
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FireFish Arts Festival in Lorain for the Third annual Incarnation October 6, 7, 2017 Five visual artists chosen by the art committee of the original Ingenuity Festival, Cleveland World Festival.
Exhibits:
Group show /Events/Exhibitions
Zensville Art Museum, Zensville, OH Sep.-Dec. 2015
Group exhibition
International Art Expo, Cleveland, OH Sep. 20-26, 2013 Group exhibition
Mansfield Art Center, Mansfield, OH July-Sep, 2010 Group exhibition
Coburn Art gallery, Ashland, OH May-Sep, 2010 Group exhibition
FAVA Art gallery, Oberlin, OH May-Aug, 2000 Group exhibition
Ginkgo Art gallery, Oberlin, OH Present
Solo exhibition at FAVA, Oberlin, Ohio 2015
International Art Expo, Cleveland, OH Sep. 20-26, 2013 Group exhibition
Solo Exhibition, Beck Center for the Arts, Lakewood, OH Jan. 11, 2013
Solo Exhibition, Cleveland Public Library Art Department, Cleveland, OH
June-October, 2012
Solo exhibition, Mansfield Art Center, Mansfield, OH May-July, 2011
New Paragraphjingjing Luo on Chinese Calligraphic Form evolution
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Jingjing Luo
Oberlin, OH, United States
About | jingjing Luo
Luo, is a self-taught artist. She moved to US from Beijing nearly a decade. Her complexes of memories exist, vanish, and then reappear, ancient and yet modern. These memories result from a dark, intimate, distortion and spatial equilibrium that are reflected in each work. The feeling of simplicity and unfinished fluidity echoes in from both her cultural backgrounds which revolves around the flowing spontaneously, stimulating the strokes, colors and textures in the painting, the flowing motion creating ongoing waves one after another, unfolding with new possibilities, increasing the capacity to evoke much deeper and various associations and interpretations. Luo's work evokes the beauty of death and birth presented in the invisible energy of nature.
"Die Verfolgung" by Jing Jing Luo is a #quartweet commissioned by the Princeton Symphony Orchestra and performed by the Signum Quartet at the IAS in Princeton as part of their #quartweet residency with the PSO. http://princetonsymphony.org/
Luo, Jing Jing a native of Beijing, China, is a prolific composer and performer who was described as one of “the first generation of avant-garde composers… whose music muses over the remote past and then depicts the results of her wealth of reflections…” by the music critic from the Hong Kong Arts Festival. Recently, New York Times critic Steven Smith wrote that her new work “Tsao Shu” was “suspended stark, deliberate daubs, fidgets and jolts against copious silence…”
Jing Jing was a child prodigy who won first prize in the Beijing youth piano competition at the age of 7 and entered the Central Conservatory of Music Prep. school at 5 years old. She then entered Shanghai Conservatory as a piano major.
Luo continued her career as a piano recitalist after she arrived in US. She has recorded her piano solo works and her orchestral works were produced by International Record Inc., which is today’s Naxos records in 1984. She has had performance with the NEC Contemporary Ensemble, the Stanford Contemporary Ensemble and the Central Philharmonic Orchestra among others.She was invited to perform in many US music venues and private foundations until 2010 when she retired from piano performance. Since then her focal point has turned to teaching and composing.
Luo’s musical language connects East and West and transcends traditional boundaries. She has received a commissioning award from the Koussevitzky Music Foundation, twice from the Rockefeller Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Letters award, and dozens of other awards. Luo is celebrated in both her homeland and the West for her distinctive and original musical language. The American Academy of Arts and Letters praised her as “…expressive, a fascinating mixture of sources, and exciting virtuosity. …refining her special language with each new score…”
While Luo tirelessly explores her own rich musical heritage, she incorporates the Western contemporary music language with an amalgamation of East and West penetrating all of her works. Her constant struggling with the conflicts between an individual’s voice with societal demands becomes a frequent theme reflected in her new works.
Luo’s orchestral work, “Tsao Shu”(2011), deliberates the visual paint stroke effects from an ancient Chinese calligraphy technique as a subtle timbre transformation with a sublime timing throughout the piece. It engages and excites performers and audiences. Her work “Spirare Potes Spirare”(2013) for solo flute and cello was praised as “one of the most important American chamber works” by the international flute diva Claire Chase for whom the work was written. (Claire Chase and katinka kleijin gave the world premiere at the Chicago Cultural Center on November 9th, 2014.) This work marks a new and significant direction in Luo’s music career.
Luo’s interests in electronic and digital media brought her to study with the late Electronic pioneer Bulet Arel at Stony Brook University in late 80’s..Luo states in one of her essays: “To me, electro-acoustic sound is associated with nature; it enriches and enlarges the fundamental sound of nature.” Her up-coming project, “Multiple Objects”(2016), is an environmentally themed multi-media work that utilizes stereo-playback and solo cello with an object player. Luo was named as the Composer-in-residence with the Princeton Symphony in 2016 as the winner of the “Music Alive Composer” award.
Using Sumi ink and Chinese ink, oil, acrylics, leaves, tree skins or branches, blood, milk, and other found objects paint on hand-made rice paper (or fabric, or wood), her mixed media in painting explores a multi-dimensional and philosophical foundation. In her work appears a raw and refreshing spirit that resonates the conflict between the past and the present. Her work creates a conflict and an unfinished fluidity that evokes the unfolding of new possibilities. She has been exhibited both nationally and internationally.
Luo has taught art classes and courses in numerous art institutions, galleries and fine art centers nationally. Saatchi Art currently represents Luo’s visual work.