Jocelyn Tsui (b. 2002) was born and raised in Hong Kong, where overwhelming density became deeply embedded in her maximalist configurations. Her work is largely inspired by architecture, engineering, psychology, and literature, and as a result, becomes an aggregation of varied maps, patterns, and semantic systems. Overall a multimedia artist – working with collage, sculpture, video, and installation – Tsui still prides herself as a printmaker first. In both her research and artistic practice, she is compelled to pursue methods of high discipline and rigor, a consequence of her intense childhood education. Growing up in a city where millions are contending for the same positions, Tsui describes the body-to-body competitive experience as “perhaps inevitable that I felt the pressure push me into flatness. Working on the flat plane allowed me to oversee every detail and every line; it is where I found control.” The precision, repetition and sequencing of printmaking serves as the foundation of her work, but in the end, she aims to free herself from it in an exhaled search for uniqueness. It is within this push-pull relationship that her work evolves into complex abstractions and grid-like worlds that, upon close examination, reveal subtle yet firm possibilities of disruption, disorder, and uncertainty. Group exhibitions include The Will Barnet National Arts Club Student Show at The National Arts Club, NY (2024) and Transcending Form at 25 East 13th Gallery, Parsons School of Design, NY (2024).
