Day of the Dead and Other Works

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By Sylvia Ji

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Day of the Dead and Other Works showcases Sylvia Ji's haunting and seductive portrayals of women that blend psychedelia with cultural symbolism. Drawing heavily from La Calavera Catrina, the emblematic figure of Mexico's Day of the Dead, Ji's art intricately weaves macabre themes with glamorous, darkly exotic imagery inspired by the Sugar Skull tradition. This lavish monograph offers a rich retrospective of an artist whose work challenges conventional notions of femininity and straddles the boundary between high and lowbrow art.
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This book will appeal to readers interested in contemporary art, cultural symbolism, and explorations of femininity through visual storytelling. Fans of Day of the Dead traditions and psychedelic art will find this collection especially captivating.

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Sylvia Ji's haunting, seductive and psychedelically tinged portrayals of women offer a whole new slant on femininity, and blur the line between high and lowbrow art. The dominant influence on her work is La Calavera Catrina, the iconic skeleton dame of Mexico's Day of the Dead celebrations, and her macabre, yet glamorous, take on the Sugar Skull tradition.

This retrospective monograph offers a lavish overview of an artist who draws inspiration from life and death to create highly charged and darkly exotic work.

Day of the Dead and Other Works by Sylvia Ji captures these unique artistic expressions beautifully, celebrating the intersection of art and culture.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780993337413

Publisher: Korero Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 20 October 2016

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Korero Press

Illustration: 1 Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 208.0mm

Height: 260.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 112

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction Sylvia Ji

About the Author

Sylvia Ji was born in 1982 and raised in San Francisco, California, USA. She graduated with distinction in 2005 from the Academy of Art University of San Francisco with a Bachelors degree in traditional illustration and had her first ambitious and successful solo show while still in her last year of school. Ji's work has been featured in numerous gallery exhibitions worldwide, as well as Art Basel's Art Fair Now in Switzerland and Art From The New World at Bristol's City Museum & Art Gallery in the UK. She has been profiled in publications such as Juxtapoz, Trace, and Mesh Magazine, and her painting Dona Dolorosa graced the cover of LA Weekly. She lives in Los Angeles.