Born and raised in Hong Kong, Gwen Yip is an artist who has lived and worked in Shanghai, Amsterdam and London before settling in Brooklyn. She paints the faces of those she knows and the backs of those she doesn’t. Backs is a series of paintings of strangers in London, Hong Kong and New York. The empty space and blurriness of identity in her paintings depict loneliness and isolation in city life.
last night i was thinking about what kept me alive. this morning my cat came walking in on his four little paws and meowed at me, and the answer was clear.
