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Installation view of Fruiting Body, 2018

“I appreciate the word artist more than I do painter.” In tandem with expanding her artistic identity, Brook Hsu looks to dilate viewers’ perspectives by employing mythic and spiritual symbolism wavering between abstraction and figuration. Her work is a profusion of oil painting, texts, sculpture and carpet pieces that present contemporary narratives of love, pain, humor and connectedness. “I hope that my use of symbolism provides a freedom for the viewer to be able to think and feel deeply, to ask the big questions… to keep asking the obvious, why is the sky blue?, to have space to grieve, to laugh and feel joy.” https://www.culturedmag.com/brook-hsu/

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Brook Hsu at Et Al in San Francisco

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Panic Angel, Deli Gallery, New York, 2017

Brook Hsu’s ability to connect disparate themes in order to summon deeper thought may come from traversing vastly different cultural and topographical landscapes. She grew up in Stillwater, Oklahoma, and attended the Kansas City Art Institute and Yale University. There was a stint in Los Angeles before returning to New York. “Panic Angel,” her 2017 exhibition at Brooklyn’s Deli Gallery was a meditation on her mother’s battle with breast cancer and a breakthrough show. The partner text, “Take Away,” introduced the pain of cancer through the allegory of the Greek god Pan and referenced everything from Rimbaud to Roy Orbison.

Hsu’s solo show last summer at Detroit’s Bahamas Biennale gallery strung together disparate themes requiring viewers to interpret complex emotions and her first institutional show, a four-person presentation at the Renaissance Society in Chicago, is on view through January 27, 2019. “It’s difficult to feel our humanity right now, but we really need to feel it now more than ever,” Hsu says. “Art’s greatest power is in its ability to inspire change in us.”

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Panic Angel, Deli Gallery, New York, 2017

Brook Hsu (b. 1987 in Pullman, Washington) Lives and works in New York. Hsu received her BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute in 2010 and her MFA from Yale University, New Haven in 2016. She has exhibited nationally and internationally including at the Renaissance Society (IL), Bahamas Biennale (MI), BBQLA (CA), Deli Gallery (NY), Double Double Land (Toronto, Canada), Carrie Secrist Gallery (IL), Galleri CC (Malmo, Sweden), GRIN Contemporary (RI), In Lieu (CA), Page (NY), Vacant Farm (MO), Vernon Gardens (CA).

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Brook Hsu at Bortomali in New York City

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Brook Hsu at Bortomali in New York City

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Brook Hsu at Et Al in San Francisco