Biblio Gallery Exhibit: Feimo Zhu

About the Artist:

Feimo Zhu is a second year graduate student in the master of fine arts in illustration program in the College of Visual and Performing Arts.  She is an illustrator who has always been interested in interdisciplinary research and loves to use many scientific concepts in her illustration, influenced by her cousin, Yitian Tucci, who is a Senior Scientist, holding a Ph.D. Pharmaceutical Sciences degree from the University of Michigan.

Feimo got her BFA degree from the University of Kansas, where she majored in Illustration and Animation, with a minor in Business. After graduating from KU, Feimo went to Savannah College of Art and Design to continue to pursue an Illustration MFA degree. After studying for one year at SCAD, Feimo found that she wanted to explore the new possibilities of illustration art. In her hopes to conduct interdisciplinary experimental illustration research, she decided to transfer to Syracuse University.

Artist’s Statement:

I have always believed that illustration art is an artist’s expression of his own emotions. The most important thing for artistic expression is to face one’s heart honestly. My mission is to express the truest heart in my art. I have always been interested in the way humans communicate in the future. I believe that Illustration art is one kind of visual language that can help humans communicate in the future. The image language has more intuitive power than words. No matter where we come from, our different cultural backgrounds, we can still communicate through visual language. Breaking down the barriers of cultural geography to communicate with people all over the world is my mission. My higher goal for illustration art is to explore a new way of understanding the world. From ancient times to the present, artists of different art genres have been actively exploring new ways of understanding the world. I also think that, in fact, all disciplines in the world are interlinked. Mathematics and physics are the most basic subject knowledge about the composition of the universe, and art and philosophy are the ultimate secrets related to the origin of the human universe. I hope that my art can bridge the gap between different disciplines, to explore the ultimate mystery of the universe or the origin of our humans.

To View Feimo’s online portfolio:

www.behance.net/feimoart

For more information on exhibiting in the Biblio Gallery, contact Ann Skiold.