YU Ya-Lan
Aurora
Oil-based reduction print, woodcut
45×60cm
2023
Yu Ya-Lan was born in 1987 in Yunlin, Taiwan. She obtained both a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Fine Arts from the Taipei National University of the Arts in 2010 and 2014, respectively.
The artist uses printmaking as a creative medium to depict inner feelings she experiences every day, but is unable to accurately express in words. She believes that memories and induced emotional feelings vary over time. She uses the woodcut technique because once a cut is made, it cannot be unmade. Unique patterns of lines on the woodblock, smooth and harmonious strokes carved out in different density record emotional changes and memories appearing during the moment of creation.
Yu Ya-Lan was selected into the “Made in Taiwan – Young Artist Discovery” at Art Taipei art fair in 2012. Her works Close Your Eyes, You Will See, Life Is Only on Earth, and Not for Long and Brilliant have been collected by the National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts.