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Crystal Lupa
LUPA was born in California in 1989. She received her BA degree in fashion design womenswear from Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London in 2012.
She is currently based in Taipei, working in areas including painting, illustration, sculpture, fashion design, and music composition. Regardless of the media, her visual language always exudes an air of Eastern mysticism and fantasy literature.
In the construction of magical and surreal sites, she has created her own context of symbols and forms. She transforms life experiences in reality or dreams into scenes and represents them with primitive, sensuous contours to explore the psychological states of the archetypal figure. She has extended these characteristics to her compositions, giving them an arrangement like the proscenium stage to interpret the interaction between the image and the spectator. The diversity of ethnicity and metaphor of fertility could also be found in her visual approach.
She explores self, complex, shadow and collective unconscious by visualizing the inner space through art . She chooses to achieve mutual interaction between her audience and the motif through atmosphere-evoking and immersive images to further state an inner, deeper resistance within people in the social context.
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LUPA was born in California in 1989. She received her BA degree in fashion design womenswear from Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London in 2012.
She is currently based in Taipei, working in areas including painting, illustration, sculpture, fashion design, and music composition. Regardless of the media, her visual language always exudes an air of Eastern mysticism and fantasy literature.
In the construction of magical and surreal sites, she has created her own context of symbols and forms. She transforms life experiences in reality or dreams into scenes and represents them with primitive, sensuous contours to explore the psychological states of the archetypal figure. She has extended these characteristics to her compositions, giving them an arrangement like the proscenium stage to interpret the interaction between the image and the spectator. The diversity of ethnicity and metaphor of fertility could also be found in her visual approach.
She explores self, complex, shadow and collective unconscious by visualizing the inner space through art . She chooses to achieve mutual interaction between her audience and the motif through atmosphere-evoking and immersive images to further state an inner, deeper resistance within people in the social context.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 Group Exhibition - ART TAIPEI 2021. ASIA ART CENTER ．Taipei
2021 Group Exhibition "Transgression thoughout the Volatile World". ASIA ART CENTER. Taipei
2021 Group Exhibition "Tea Gathering in Spring". Club Designer / CLUBART. Taipei
2019 Group Exhibition "waa weiI x LUPA". ForgoodCafe. Taipei
2019 Group Exhibition "GRADIENT - 15 Faces of Contemporary Art". J-SHAN. Kaoshiung
2016 New York Fashion Week. NY
2015 The Exchange of African Tribal Art. 44 Gallery. Taipei
2014 The Exchange of African Tribal Art. 44 Gallery. Taipei
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022 Solo Exhibition "The Unspoken TALES". Hiro Hiro Art Space. Taipei
2020 Solo Exhibition "HABITAT of ILLUSION". LIGHTWELL. Taipei
2020 Solo Exhibition "The Blaze of Flowers". MOCA CUBE. Taipei
2019 Solo Exhibition "Raven Strands & White Dreams". Galerie Grand Siècle. Taipei
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