JONAS YIP @ TRYST II with 3C GALLERY
August 23-25, 2024
about the artist
Jonas Yip is a fine art photographer and musician based in the Los Angeles area. Born in Princeton, New Jersey to a poet-writer-professor father and an art historian mother, Jonas was raised in a creative environment steeped in art and music, poetry and performance, design and architecture, and plenty of world travel. Yet somehow Jonas decided to become an engineer, building a successful career in Silicon Valley startup companies. Over the years, however, he never stopped pursuing his creative passions: music, design, and photography. Jonas has since left the high-tech world to concentrate exclusively on these smaller, more personal projects.
Jonas has been honored with numerous photography awards and his work has been exhibited internationally. He has published two books, Somewhere Between (National Taiwan University Press, 2017) and Paris: Dialogues and Meditations (Nanjing University Press, 2008), in collaboration with renowned poet and scholar Wai-lim Yip. An exhibition, “Paris: Dialogue”, featuring photographs and poems excerpted from the books, traveled through Taiwan, China and Hong Kong and was also exhibited at the San Diego Museum of Art. Jonas’s work has been accepted into the permanent collections at the San Diego Museum of Art in San Diego, CA, the National Museum of Chinese Literature in Beijing, China, and the California Museum of Photography in Riverside, CA, as well as numerous private collections. More information and news is available at jonasyip.com.
See my CV for details of exhibits and honors.
shan shui: landscapes revisited
Shan Shui: Landscapes Revisited is a series of evocative, abstract mountain- and cloudscapes, organic and layered, reminiscent of Chinese shan shui landscapes. Placing emphasis on expression rather than representation, classical Chinese landscape paintings did not aim to show the realistic appearance of nature but instead to capture its essence and rhythm, revealing the artist’s inner landscape.
In this series I search for expression by exploring the boundaries of photographic process, delving into the photographic materials themselves. The photosensitive chemicals in instant film, exposed to ambient light and hand-extruded, are worked in stages over time, capturing movement and gesture and recording evidence of the artist’s hand, which ultimately finds expression in the collision of light, chemicals, film, and physical manipulation.
Archival Pigment Print | 22" x 14" | 35" x 22" | 54” x 34”
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This is a small selection from the full series. For further information or a PDF catalog, please inquire.
To acquire a print, please contact Susan Spiritus Gallery.
her dresses
from the small years
My ongoing project The Small Years attempts to encapsulate the feeling as our daughter's childhood slips away, that subtle sadness and nostalgia of watching as each stage ebbs—each fascinating, frustrating, fabulous stage—and knowing that it's never coming back. Over time as that feeling fades we revisit things we've held onto, trinkets and scrawls, photographs and movies, to remember, and realize once again the fragility and ephemerality and beauty of childhood.
Her Dresses, one series within The Small Years project, features small, delicate prints of my daughter's childhood dresses, rendered in subtle pale tones that are barely there, on thin, translucent Japanese paper that itself will wrinkle and buckle as it is handled, fragile and faded, like lingering ghosts of childhood memories.
