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Livien Yin — Gleaner
Livien Yin

Gleaner

2024

This large scale oil painting presents a figure rendered in luminous greens and warm golds, composed with gestural brushwork that emphasizes surface and materiality. The figure, wrapped in draped fabric, is depicted from the torso upward against a pale landscape background where small figures can be discerned in the distance. The artist employs a restricted palette of jade, ochre, and terracotta tones, building form through layered application and expressive mark making. The work engages with portraiture and figuration through a contemporary lens, drawing on traditions of expressionist painting while maintaining a distinctly modern sensibility. Yin's practice reflects a sustained interest in the human form as a vehicle for exploring color, gesture, and the materiality of paint itself.

Medium
Oil on linen
Overall

Notes

Tina Kim Gallery, Frieze New York 2026, Booth A9, The Shed, May 13–17, 2026. Inquiries: info@tinakimgallery.com.

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Livien Yin, Gleaner, 2024

This large scale oil painting presents a figure rendered in luminous greens and warm golds, composed with gestural brushwork that emphasizes surface and materiality. The figure, wrapped in draped fabric, is depicted from the torso upward against a pale landscape background where small figures can be discerned in the distance. The artist employs a restricted palette of jade, ochre, and terracotta tones, building form through layered application and expressive mark making. The work engages with portraiture and figuration through a contemporary lens, drawing on traditions of expressionist painting while maintaining a distinctly modern sensibility. Yin's practice reflects a sustained interest in the human form as a vehicle for exploring color, gesture, and the materiality of paint itself.

Medium
Oil on linen
Dimensions
overall: 116.8 x 91.4 cm
Year
2024
Seen at
Tina Kim Gallery, New York, NY

Related themes

Landscape Background, Color Study, Palette Exploration, Linen Support, Expressionism, Body Politics, Portraiture, Textile Reference, Gestural Abstraction, Figuration, 21st Century, Oil Painting, Brushwork Focus, Asian Contemporary, Material Culture, Contemporary Art, Gallery Represented, Human Form, Large Scale, Contemporary Figuration

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