GROUP EXHIBITION

2013 Times Contemplation - Seventh Annual Chinese influence AAC Art Exhibition Tour Today Art Museum | Beijing

Art Beijing Art Fair National Agricultural Exhibition | Beijing

2012 Jiangsu Province Artists Association, the fourth new art exhibition Jiangsu Art Museum | Nanjing

Concept Beyond - Documentary Exhibition of 2012 new Meticulous Art Museum of China | Beijing

2011 2010 Humble House Cheats New Generation Annual Exhibition - Contemporary Ink | Taipei

Yang Yu's fine inkbrush court ladies are exquisite in their image-design. The line drawing seems done with wisps of floating silk, and restrained use of fine-hatch shading lends richness to her character studies. The rhythmic sinuosity of her lines, with their endless variations, evoke an elevated temperament. The traditional five grades of ink intensity find their consummate application here. Although the picture plane is in black and white, there is an amazing chromatic richness. Her female figures are not gentle and restrained like the elegant court ladies of traditional fine inkbrush painting, nor are they like the realistically drawn modish females

favored by current fine inkbrush art. Rather, they are marmoreal, dreamy modern femmes in a symbolically fraught ambience. Yang Yu takes Chinese tradition as her foundation stone. She absorbs and fuses all kinds of graphic perceptions to portray life’s evanescencewith its joys and sorrows to form her highly identifiable personal style of fine inkbrush human figures.