China Faith Star

Artist: China Faith Star,

Statement:

“A thread across all of my series work is that it’s my wish that the observer take the time to lose themselves in the work, allowing their daily thoughts to quiet and their mind to expand through meditation of form. I create parameters for my work so that I can similarly lose myself in the process of making. Each series starts with a concept and a set of rules and evolves from there: #DTOLY is a part of the Painted in the Language of Maps Series; illustrations of people and place collaged into a mandala of hyper color and pattern. I chose images specific to my experience living and working in the Downtown Core: music, good food, people and beautiful views. The rules : draw from media, collage images into a mandala, color in a limited palette.”

Artist Bio:

China Faith Star is an auto-didactical, overly practical, visual trickster, sound/ word mixer. Born in Los Angeles to Punk Flower Children and raised in a world of diverse interactions, she fled to the woods to bathe with trees. She writes poetry, occasionally. Mostly she conjures ideas, transmuting socio/political/emotional concepts into aesthetically visceral maps/translations: popping color, repetitious pattern, dimensional texture, expressionistic, meditative. Her medium-diverse visual artwork, animation, theatrical, wordsmithing and musical performances have been exhibited in 25 cities nationally/internationally and her work has been added to public and private collections. In addition to a full-time studio practice and regular performing, China’s band GRRRLSXXX facilitates a free monthly event called Rage Salon, a femme facilitated space for free improvisation through sound and movement. She occasionally teaches. She received her B.A. in Fine Art at The Evergreen State College and currently lives in Olympia, WA.