Anica Xie is an multimedia artist based in New York and California. 

 

The fault lines that exist between blurriness and clarity, discipline and inhibition, or ephemera and eternity are part of her language of restraint. Each work begins from a state of meditative blankness and quiet reflection. Allowing memory and thought to dissolve into deconstructed forms, she first renders color onto each canvas before carefully reducing the chaotic complexity into one emerging recollection. Photography and films explore the same process with heavier emphasis on the candid. Nevertheless, the result is a body of works which are instinctive and at times visceral, yet also refined reservoirs of anonymity.

 

The artist is deeply interested in floral arrangements and has learned much from the aesthetic rumination required from selecting and pairing flowers with unique textures and color combinations. Her works reflect a trained eye in negative space and composition developed through both Western and Ikebana styles. ​​She deliberately cuts elements as to create atmosphere as opposed to painting with exacting detail.

 

Color theory principles crucial to different Modern Art movements and international cinema in the 20th Century have been seminal in shaping artist's theses regarding painting techniques. However, Medieval, Greco-Roman, and traditional aesthetic principles from the Chinese Song Dynasty are also sources where inspiration is gleaned.