Ivy Wu Visual Artist
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Ivy Wu （吴爱维）was born in Shanghai. She grew up in this fascinating eastern city, a melting pot of cultures and immigrated to United States in 2013. She was granted the Honor Award Scholarship by Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) to study in her graduate school, received Master of Fine Art in painting. She is the winner of 39th SCAD Sidewalk Art Festival, featured as a passionate contemporary artist on Visionary Artistry Magazine, featured artist in VoyageATL Magazine, reported in Whitewall Art Magazine, and in other publications. She is living in Atlanta, Georgia.
Wu embraces vivacious brushstrokes in her abstract gestural work, vibrating with explosive colors and sense of lines. With a spontaneous burst of energy, she is an artist mesmerized by colors, painting rapidly in an intuitive way. She brings a range of inspirations to her work from stories, nature and landscape. Beyond visual culture, Wu has synaesthetic response to the environments. The immediate surroundings, the complexity of lived experiences lies the heart of her practice. In the myths of pleasure, the composition hovers on the edge of the abstraction and figuration that is in an open dimension.
AWARDS:
2022 Helen Seydel Memorial Scholarship (ACA)
2020 SCAD Honor Awards
2020 SCAD Spirit Award, the 39th Savannah College of Art and Design Sidewalk Arts Festival.
2020 Finalist in juried spring exhibition, The Portrait Society of Atlanta.
2019 Finalist in juried annual exhibition, The Portrait Society of Atlanta.
2019 Selected as Artist of the Month in Fulton County library system, Georgia.
2018 Third place, juried exhibition, Out and About, Sewell Mill Culture Center.
EXHIBITIONS:
2023 FREEMARKET GALLERY, Atlanta, GA
Untapped
2022 SHE/THEY GALLERY, Santa Ana, CA
What’s In Your Sketchbook
2022 Online via BeAn Culture, China
Voices of Silence
2022 SAVANNAH COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN, Atlanta, GA
Juried Spring Forward
2021 SAVANNAH COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN, Atlanta, GA
Fall Open Studio
2021 ALPHARETTA ART CENTER，Alpharetta, GA
A Slice of Life
2021 Online via Fulton County Arts & Culture
Art and Healing in the Time of the Pandemic
2020 Online via SAVANNAH COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN
39th Sidewalk Art Festival
2020 Online via THE PORTRAIT SOCIETY OF ATLANTA
Gallery of Quarantine Work
2020 Online via THE PORTRAIT SOCIETY OF ATLANTA
Spring Exhibition
2020 ALPHARETTA ART CENTER，Alpharetta, GA
Figure Group Exhibition
2020 ABERNATHY ARTS CENTER, Sandy Spring, GA
Southern Society of Artists Annual Exhibition
2019 SFA Gallery, Alpharetta, GA
Portrait Society of Atlanta
2019 JOHNS CREEK ART CENTER, Johns Creek, GA
Summer Serendipity
2019 TWO SMITH ART GALLERY, Duluth, GA
Painting Duluth, plein air exhibition
2019 ATLANTA ARTIST CENTER, Buckhead, GA
Renewal, juried show
2019 BINDERS GALLERY, Buckhead, GA
Limelight
2018 LOST CORNER PRESERVE, Sandy Springs, GA
Plein Air Exhibition
2018 SEWELL MILL CULTURE CENTER, Sandy Springs, GA
Out and About
2018 ATLANTA ARTIST CENTER, Buckhead, GA
Power Line Exhibition