2022 GRANT RECEIPIENT YI GAO
BIOGRAPHY
Yi Gao (b. 1988, China) is a 2023 MFA candidate with a concentration in painting at UCLA. This is her second grant award from the Martha Alf Foundation.
Through a series of improvisation, paint splatter, writing, and erasure, Yi Gao's works evoke the playfulness and insouciance of childhood experience. The quick, gestural marks made with acrylic, inks and Chinese pigments on Yupo paper paintings contrast humorous optimism with the stark urgency of our current condition.
