Flung out of space

Making art is the way to communicate with both my heart and the world surrounding me.

My art practice is a combination of sculpture, painting and video, creating dreamlike, fictional installations that disrupt reality and present more questions than they answer. I use artwork to invite viewers into everything that informs my life, identity, and sense of place.

I was born and raised in Inner Mongolia, China. My works have been influenced by the different cultural and ideological contexts between China and America. I use labor-intensive, repetitive methods to represent the history of Chinese working people and identity. Many of my works are imbued with cycles of time.

Flung out of space - I use painting and video, as medium to have conversations about time, space, reality and fantasy. I question and deconstruct my roles in both private and public space. Repetition and expansion are the main features of my installation and painting in this way, I give my works a vivid sense of life and mobility.

Jing (Ellen) Xu

Jing (Ellen) Xu is a multidisciplinary artist born and raised in Inner Mongolia, China and currently
based in Queens, NY. She received BA in Sculpture from Xiamen University, China and an MFA
from the University of Washington in Seattle.
Xu has participated residencies at Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Wassaic
Residency and Vermont Studio Center. She has received a BRIC Media Arts Fellowship, the Artist
Fellowship from Hamiltonian Gallery, DC and the Foundation for Contemporary Art Grant.
Her work has been included in exhibitions the Asian Art Museum, Seattle, WA; Governors Island
Art Fair, NY; Knockdown Center, NY; Her work has been featured in The Seattle Times, The
Washington Post.