Galerie Lelong New York is proud to announce the representation of Chinese artist Lin Tianmiao

　　Born in Taiyuan, Shanxi Province in 1961, Lin Tianmiao is one of the first female artists from China to achieve international recognition. During the 1980s, Lin studied in the Fine Art Department of the Capital Normal University in Beijing. Following her studies, she moved to New York with her husband Wang Gongxin, a celebrated video artist. They returned to China in 1995, where they now reside. Early in her career, Lin worked as a successful textile designer, later translating her experience along with the crafts of weaving, sewing, and embroidery into her practice as a visual artist.

　　林天苗，1961年出生于山西太原，是首批获得国际知名度的中国女性艺术家之一。20世纪80年代，林在北京师范大学美术系学习。之后和知名的影像艺术家丈夫王功新移居纽约。1995年回国，定居至今。在早期，林是一名成功的纺织品设计师，之后将学习的经验并结合编织、 缝纫以及刺绣等技巧应用到艺术创作中，成为视觉艺术家。

　　Best known for her installations—such as The Proliferation of Thread Winding (1995) consisting of a bed of needles linked to individually hand-wrapped balls of white cotton thread, with a monitor depicting the artist's painstaking handicraft laid beneath a sheer pillowcase—Lin also works in sculpture, photography, video, and a variety of other media. Like The Proliferation of Thread Winding, much of her work addresses women's issues. Lin links thread and the activity of binding and weaving to the female experience and her Chinese background, but the final result evokes a shared human experience for the viewer, regardless of gender, race, or nationality. Conceptual and obsessed with the intricately hand-made, Lin’s work operates within numerous dichotomies such as the private vs. public, personal vs. cultural, male vs. female, natural vs. unnatural, remembered past vs. lived present. Through the use of common materials and the transformation of quotidian objects, Lin evokes personal interpretations for each viewer while maintaining a universally recognized experience.

　　她最知名的装置作品--如《缠的扩散》（1995）包括一张布满了针的床，连接着手工缠绕的白色丝线球，在一个简单的枕头下面有一个屏幕，播放着艺术家辛苦的手工活动--林同时也用雕塑、摄影、影像等多种材料进行艺术创作。和《缠的扩散》一样，她的很多作品探讨女性话题。林将丝线以及缠绕活动和女性的经验以及她的中国文化背景联系起来，不论观众是男是女，人种如何，国籍是哪里，最后都给他们带来了人类共有的体验。观念再加上复杂的手工劳动，林的作品总是呈现二元特性，如私有与公共，个人与文化，男性与女性，自然与非自然，回忆过去与活在现在。通过使用普通的材料以及对日常用品的转化，林在让每一个观众有共同体验的同时也产生个人的解读。

　　From September 7, 2012 to January 27, 2013, the Asia Society Museum in New York will present Bound Unbound, Lin Tianmiao’s first major solo museum exhibition in the United States. The exhibition will survey the last 20 years of Lin’s career and will include several entirely new installations. An illustrated catalogue with a statement by the artist and essays by leading scholars on Chinese and Feminist art will accompany the exhibition.

　　从2012年9月7日到2013年1月27日，纽约亚洲协会美术馆将在美国展出林天苗首次大型个人回顾展“缠了，再剪开”。此展览将回顾林20年艺术创作实践并且包含几件全新创作的作品。同时随展画册中将有艺术家陈词以及在中国及女性艺术领域的知名学者撰写的评论文章。

　　Lin’s first exhibition with Galerie Lelong will be presented in New York from October 25 to December 8, 2012. The exhibition will highlight Lin’s installation Badges (2009), a collection of hanging embroidery hoops in various sizes, each emblazoned with a different word used to describe women in contemporary culture. The work was previously shown using only Chinese characters, but Lin has created a selection of hoops embroidered in English to be integrated into the installation, fostering a new cross-cultural identity. Sculpture and a large-scale piece from The Same series will also be on view. For more information about Lin Tianmiao please visit: www.galerielelong.com and www.wanggongxin.com.

　　林与Galerie Lelong首次合作的展览将于10月25日到12月8日在纽约呈现。本展览以装置作品《徽章》（2009）为亮点，其中包含大小不等刺绣圈儿，每一个刺绣圈描述了当代文化中女性的词汇。此作品之前仅展出中文，但这次林又将一些英文词汇融入其中，使得作品有了跨文化的特征。《一样》系列中的大型装置作品也将在此展呈现。了解更多详情，请登陆 www.galerielelong.com 和 www.wanggongxin.com.

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