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Body Ajar Z. Cecilia Lu, "Variations on a Calf I"
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Z. Cecilia Lu, "Variations on a Calf I"

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2024
Glazed stoneware, paper pulp, brewed then dehydrated Chinese medicine
14” x 9” x 1.5”

ARTIST STATEMENT
My interdisciplinary practice considers traditions of grief and medicine from both personal and cultural vantage points. Born in China and raised in Upstate New York, my work explores the confluences of these identities and how they create hybrid understandings of mourning and healing. I’m interested in the spaces between life and death and in decentering hierarchies of animacy in our relationships to plants, food, and medicine.

BIO
Z. Cecilia Lu is a Chinese-American artist based in New York. Her art practice engages multi-generational and familial histories in the context of mourning and non-western healing practices.

She has commenced solo undertakings/shows at The Soil Factory (Ithaca, NY) and The Herbert F Johnson Museum of Art (Ithaca, NY) and participated in group shows in Upstate NY and NYC. She was artist-in-residence at Monson Arts Center (Monson, ME), Jingdezhen Pottery Workshop (Jingdezhen, China), Woodstock Byrdcliffe (Woodstock, NY), and has received grants from The Northern Clay Center and Cornell University.

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2024
Glazed stoneware, paper pulp, brewed then dehydrated Chinese medicine
14” x 9” x 1.5”

ARTIST STATEMENT
My interdisciplinary practice considers traditions of grief and medicine from both personal and cultural vantage points. Born in China and raised in Upstate New York, my work explores the confluences of these identities and how they create hybrid understandings of mourning and healing. I’m interested in the spaces between life and death and in decentering hierarchies of animacy in our relationships to plants, food, and medicine.

BIO
Z. Cecilia Lu is a Chinese-American artist based in New York. Her art practice engages multi-generational and familial histories in the context of mourning and non-western healing practices.

She has commenced solo undertakings/shows at The Soil Factory (Ithaca, NY) and The Herbert F Johnson Museum of Art (Ithaca, NY) and participated in group shows in Upstate NY and NYC. She was artist-in-residence at Monson Arts Center (Monson, ME), Jingdezhen Pottery Workshop (Jingdezhen, China), Woodstock Byrdcliffe (Woodstock, NY), and has received grants from The Northern Clay Center and Cornell University.

Shipping is not available. Please contact us regarding delivery before purchase.

2024
Glazed stoneware, paper pulp, brewed then dehydrated Chinese medicine
14” x 9” x 1.5”

ARTIST STATEMENT
My interdisciplinary practice considers traditions of grief and medicine from both personal and cultural vantage points. Born in China and raised in Upstate New York, my work explores the confluences of these identities and how they create hybrid understandings of mourning and healing. I’m interested in the spaces between life and death and in decentering hierarchies of animacy in our relationships to plants, food, and medicine.

BIO
Z. Cecilia Lu is a Chinese-American artist based in New York. Her art practice engages multi-generational and familial histories in the context of mourning and non-western healing practices.

She has commenced solo undertakings/shows at The Soil Factory (Ithaca, NY) and The Herbert F Johnson Museum of Art (Ithaca, NY) and participated in group shows in Upstate NY and NYC. She was artist-in-residence at Monson Arts Center (Monson, ME), Jingdezhen Pottery Workshop (Jingdezhen, China), Woodstock Byrdcliffe (Woodstock, NY), and has received grants from The Northern Clay Center and Cornell University.

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