Nicholas Metivier Gallery is thrilled to announce Hidden Variables, our first exhibition with Jinny Yu. The exhibition will open on Saturday, November 8th and run through Saturday, December 6th.
Based in Ottawa, Yu spends part of her time in Berlin where she focuses on works on paper, a fundamental part of her practice. Favouring watercolour and gouache, Yu pays particular attention to edges which never quite come into focus and often overlaps boundaries of colour. Her intricate brushwork is echoed in her larger oil on aluminum paintings. Yu has worked on aluminum since 2004, her chosen support material for its ability to reflect light and retain an element of intangibility. Yu carefully controls the level of transparency throughout the work by allowing each layer to dry before applying the next.
