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Chenlin Cai 蔡陈林

Chenlin Cai 蔡陈林

Moon Gaze

2024

Medium:

Oil on claybord

Dimension:

24 x 24 x 0.8 inch

My fascination with transparent materials led me to explore the feasibility of painting images on unconventional surfaces in an unorthodox approaching. Combining Western oil painting with the artistic language of traditional Chinese ink painting, I control the traces and physical attributes of oil paint on smooth surfaces using ink painting techniques. The microscopic organic structures resembling living organisms, combined with macroscopic natural and human landscapes, interpret representational landscapes through abstract textures.

I transform historical photos into landscapes, converting two-dimensional images into three-dimensional painted spaces. Combining the landscapes of science and art in a specific visual form. The cellular-like painting texture, through overlay and combination, transforms into imagery encompasses of destruction and rebirth. Connecting historical events with the current living environment imparts a particular "scenery" with a certain "mood."

Moon Gaze
Looming Shade
Moon Gaze
Looming Shade

About the Artist

Chenlin Cai 蔡陈林

Chenlin Cai is a Chinese visual artist lives in Philadelphia. Cai immerses his works in the conflict of these two different art cultures. Cai's works innovatively combine traditional Chinese ink painting with contemporary art expressions to create a unique visual image that fuses art and science.

Cai create paintings with visual narratives about relationships between humans and our environment, historical moments and contemporary events. He borrowed some thought-provoking historical moments from the album of time, extracted the images out from the original context, and placed them in the current time and space, thereby creating a visual contradiction and conflict. He visually expresses the effects of catastrophic events on the human body in a beautiful and poetic way.

Cai has held several solo exhibitions in Philadelphia and New York, including most recent solo exhibitions in Philadelphia International Airport, Terminal F 2024. Cai has participated in many world-class art exhibitions such as New York Artexpo in 2021 and the 12th Florence Biennale in Italy 2019. Cai won honors, including the “Coverly Smith Prize” in the Woodmere Art Museum’s 79th Juried Exhibition, Philadelphia.

Cai is also a productive mural artist. Cai has installed dozens of murals in multiple cities in the United States and China. Starts from 2018. Cai’s mural story was frequently reported by the New York Times, Philadelphia Inquirer Newspaper, ABC6, NBC10, FOX29 and Sino Vision TV. His mural projects are spread across multiple Asian communities in nationwide, and he is committed to using mural art as a medium to introduce and promote Asian culture.

Gallery

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Fractured Horizons

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Chenlin Cai 蔡陈林

About the Artist

Chenlin Cai 蔡陈林

Chenlin Cai is a Chinese visual artist lives in Philadelphia. Cai immerses his works in the conflict of these two different art cultures. Cai's works innovatively combine traditional Chinese ink painting with contemporary art expressions to create a unique visual image that fuses art and science.

Cai create paintings with visual narratives about relationships between humans and our environment, historical moments and contemporary events. He borrowed some thought-provoking historical moments from the album of time, extracted the images out from the original context, and placed them in the current time and space, thereby creating a visual contradiction and conflict. He visually expresses the effects of catastrophic events on the human body in a beautiful and poetic way.

Cai has held several solo exhibitions in Philadelphia and New York, including most recent solo exhibitions in Philadelphia International Airport, Terminal F 2024. Cai has participated in many world-class art exhibitions such as New York Artexpo in 2021 and the 12th Florence Biennale in Italy 2019. Cai won honors, including the “Coverly Smith Prize” in the Woodmere Art Museum’s 79th Juried Exhibition, Philadelphia.

Cai is also a productive mural artist. Cai has installed dozens of murals in multiple cities in the United States and China. Starts from 2018. Cai’s mural story was frequently reported by the New York Times, Philadelphia Inquirer Newspaper, ABC6, NBC10, FOX29 and Sino Vision TV. His mural projects are spread across multiple Asian communities in nationwide, and he is committed to using mural art as a medium to introduce and promote Asian culture.

Gallery

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Fractured Horizons

/

Chenlin Cai 蔡陈林

About the Artist

Chenlin Cai 蔡陈林

Chenlin Cai is a Chinese visual artist lives in Philadelphia. Cai immerses his works in the conflict of these two different art cultures. Cai's works innovatively combine traditional Chinese ink painting with contemporary art expressions to create a unique visual image that fuses art and science.

Cai create paintings with visual narratives about relationships between humans and our environment, historical moments and contemporary events. He borrowed some thought-provoking historical moments from the album of time, extracted the images out from the original context, and placed them in the current time and space, thereby creating a visual contradiction and conflict. He visually expresses the effects of catastrophic events on the human body in a beautiful and poetic way.

Cai has held several solo exhibitions in Philadelphia and New York, including most recent solo exhibitions in Philadelphia International Airport, Terminal F 2024. Cai has participated in many world-class art exhibitions such as New York Artexpo in 2021 and the 12th Florence Biennale in Italy 2019. Cai won honors, including the “Coverly Smith Prize” in the Woodmere Art Museum’s 79th Juried Exhibition, Philadelphia.

Cai is also a productive mural artist. Cai has installed dozens of murals in multiple cities in the United States and China. Starts from 2018. Cai’s mural story was frequently reported by the New York Times, Philadelphia Inquirer Newspaper, ABC6, NBC10, FOX29 and Sino Vision TV. His mural projects are spread across multiple Asian communities in nationwide, and he is committed to using mural art as a medium to introduce and promote Asian culture.