Associate Professor
Faculty of Arts
Visual Arts

Contact Information:

Office: 613-562-5800 (2770)
E-mail: jyu@uOttawa.ca
Website

Preferred Method of Contact:

Office Telephone

Research Information:

In her work, Jinny Yu attempts simultaneously to scrutinize conventions of painting and to explore new possibilities within the medium. Oscillating between the fields of the abstract painting and the object, her work seeks out aspects of painting beyond the pictorial space: she strives to depict that which is beyond the image and deliberately reveals the gestural aspect of painting as praxis. She frequently paints with oil on aluminum, whose semi-reflective surface comprises a pictorial space. This choice of materials is integral to her artistic practice and conceptual musings; the pictorial space of the aluminum is a material fact, a pre-existing condition of the as yet unpainted surface, and by painting on such a surface, one that is already pictorial, Yu's work begins where painting often ends.

Areas of Expertise:

• Visual arts

Language Preference:

French and English, Italian and Korean / Italien et Coréennes