"Monologue – Exhibition of Printmaking by Jiang Miao" which was organized by AFA and Orient Foundation will be held at Casa Garden, Orient foundation at 6pm on December 10.The exhibition is curated by James Chu Cheok Son. 11 pieces of wood cut works created in the last four years by Jiang Miao, a young artist from Mainland China, will be shown in the exhibition.
 
Jiang Miao currently lives in Beijing. She was selected by the Printmaking Department of China Central Academy of Fine Arts to be the instructor of a short course in printmaking studio of Macau Art Museum in 2005. During a month in –residence in Macau, she created some artworks and was shown in an exhibition. Her works had ever been selected to exhibit in many international craving exhibitions like "the AJAC Exhibition of Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum", "International Printmaking Biennial in Japan and Busan in South Korea", her works were also collected by China Central Academy of Fine Arts, Guiyang Art Museum, Nanjing Museum, Macau Art Museum, other institutions and personal collections.
 
We often think of Ukiyo-e(picture of floating world) when we are talking about printmaking of wood cut. "Floating world" is a term derived from Buddhism, refers to the wide range of phenomena, can also be interpreted as the daily life of social phenomena. Though Jiang Miao’s wood cut works do not have bright colors like Ukiyo-e, the image are the association of people and things she saw in her daily life. Early Ukiyo-e, usually were beauty-centric genres painting and landscape, but Jiang Miao devoted herself in the "beauty" in her heart– the creation of "Girl Series".  From the numerous works in "girl series”, there was girl meditating in silent, girl having fiery and forthright character blazing with anger, or naked girl, also girl coquetting to show their beauty; In addition, there are many surreal "girl” as well. It is worth mentioning the background of her works, most are composited with lines, on one hand to create a sense of space, on the other hand greatly highlighted the main characters - the girls’ location. The black and white monochromatic works, the creation of a sense of space and the composition of the main characters’ position becomes the personal symbols of Jiang Miao’s works.