Weiting Wei
My identity as a mother and caregiver is entangled with being an artist, knowing how materials work, using processes that are similar to domestic life allows familiarity with the forms, and muscle memory, so that I am able to engage with the subtleties of the materials, how they move and respond to my hands and the combination of clay forming and also the use of kitchen tools that I utilize to create the work. My work crosses the domestic through use of tools and themes focused on pregnancy, children, and motherhood while being entangled with memories and traditions from my life in China.
My recent works focus on the paradox of parenting, specifically, being the primary caregiver. Although you would not look at the artwork and see domesticity and children, the paradox is in the contrast of colors and forms, black and white strike against one another, octopus suction cups to pull and keep things close, layers of edges to hide or protect oneself from emotion and need. As I create the forms it provides me with peace and relief from the anxiety and tension, the ability to have moments of flow using my body, while making, relieve the anger. Even though I may reflect on the moments of my day that I am least proud of while I am making, the artwork promotes an invitation to look closer, to study the details contained within its monochrome and stark surfaces, the intricacies and beauty, we can overlook if we are not careful.
Education
2018 MFA in Visual Arts, Columbus College of Art and Design Columbus, OH
2005 Bachelor of Education, Fujian Huanan Women’s Vocational College, China
Exhibition Record
2022
Small Worlds, Crooked Tree Arts Center Carnegie Galleries, Traverse City, MI
Nocturne, Artlink Contemporary Gallery, Auer Center for Arts &Culture, IN
Greater Columbus Arts Council Professional Artists Award
Surface, D’art Center, Norfolk, VA
2022 Wild Arts Columbus, Wild Goose Creative, OH
Materials Hard + Soft, Greater Denton Art Council, Denton, TX
Ohio Art League the 2022 spring Juried Exhibition, OH
High Road Gallery Solo Exhibition, OH
2022 INTERSTATE Exhibition, Central Washington University Department of Art + Design, Sarah Supeurgeon Gallery. Ellensburg, WA
The 24th San Angelo National Ceramic Competition, San Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, TX
“The form that remains” ROY G BIV Gallery
Ornamental, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
School of Visual Arts Residency
2021 Biennial Juried Exhibition extension exhibition, Medici Museum of Art, Warren, OH
2021
ROY Small Works Exhibition, ROY Gallery, OH
TONDO, Manifest Gallery, Cincinnati,OH
3060 Gallery Featured Artist, OH (12/01/2021-12/30/2021)
2021 virtual Fall Juried Exhibition, Ohio Art League, Columbus,OH
2021 National Juried Art Show, The Art Council of Wayne County, NC
2021 CCAN Exhibition, Center for Contemporary Arts, TX
Black And White online exhibition, Site: Brooklyn Gallery, New York
2021 Biennial Juried Exhibition, Ohio Art Council’s (OAC) Riffe Gallery, OH
“Observing Motherhood”, ARC gallery and Education Foundation, Chicago, IL
2021 virtual Spring Juried Exhibition, Ohio Art League, Columbus,OH Third Place
2021 DAAL Spring Show, Dublin Area Art League, Columbus, OH The Best of Show
Women In Art Reflection, Nuu Muse Contemporary Art, Dallas, TX
8th Annual Abstract Sanctuary Exhibition, Verum Ultimum Art Gallery, Portland, OR
2020
White on White, Vancouver Art Space, Vancouver, WA People’s Choice Winner, First Place.
Represented by Art Mums Unite
“Fragments", Arc Gallery on-line exhibition, San Francisco, CA
60th Mid-States Art Exhibition, Evansville Museum, Evansville, IN
North by Northwest: Women’s Work! Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT
Gesture and Motion, Site: Brooklyn Gallery, Brooklyn NY
Mixed Media 2020, Core New Art Space, CO
Breaking Ground MFA Exhibition, Wild Goose Creative, OH
2019
ROY small works exhibition, ROY G BIV gallery, Columbus, OH
Work “Lost” Published on Spotlight Magazine Issue 17
The seeing of sound, Art League Rhode Island,The VETS Memorial Auditorium Gallery, RI
INTERSTATE: Where I-90 Meets I-82, Central Washington University Department, Sarah Supeurgeon Gallery. Ellensburg, WA Honorable mention award.
2nd National works on Paper Exhibition, University of Utah - PaperWest, University of Utah, Art and Art History Department, Salt Lake City, Utah
Cimarron National Works On Paper, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK
Represented by Circle Art Foundation
Abstract Only! Multimedia Exhibit, Hawaii Island Art Alliance, Hilo, Hawaii
“Ohio 74th Annual exhibition, Zanesville Museum of Art, OH. Winner of the sculpture category.
“Sancturay” , ARC Gallery(On-line Gallery),San Francisco,CA
Bodies of... Juried Exhibition of Ceramic Arts, Crooked Tree Arts Center, Traverse City, MI
FIERCE and FRAIL II: Of Beings,Beasts, and Seed, Verum Ultimum Art Gallery, Portland,OR
“his-ter-ee-ah” show, ARC Gallery, Chicago Juror awards.
2018
2th DeHua Ceramic Biennale, DeHua China.
9th Annual Vision In Clay Exhibition, LH Horton Jr Gallery , San Joaquin Delta College, CA
Be a light sleeper, LOTTI X HUMMI, XiaMen, China.
Abstract, Art Room Gallery, On line exhibition. Second Place.
Collision, MFA Thesis Exhibition, CCAD, Columbus, OH
2017
The Beautiful Struggle, Contemporary Art Works Exhibition, QuanZhou, China
LOTUS : EOS, Columbus College of Art & Design, Columbus, OH
2016
Take Care : EOS, Columbus College of Art & Design, Columbus, OH