Yannie Yiyang Gu

Thumbnail of Featured Art: “The Arrival of Light”, gouache, oil pastel, color pencil on wood, 10x8 inches, 2026

Studio Street Address:: Brooklyn Neighborhood Arts Studios / 540 President Street

Studio Street Address Detail: Basement of the building. Enter from the door with sign "Arts Gowanus". Studio #5

Artist Statement: Working across drawing, painting and video, my work constructs an intuitive space where feelings of love are explored through abstraction, gesture, and recurring symbols. Buddhist art and teachings, literature and poetry, fragments of personal memories serve as formal decided in my practice, offering ways to reflect on devotion, longing, and the fragility of life and human connection. Through layered surfaces, luminous color palette, and expressive mark-making, my work is not an answer but a continuous attempt to search for an ultimate form of love that moves across romantic, familial and spiritual dimensions.

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