Ginkgo (2024)

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Title & Year: Ginkgo (2024)

Artist: Victoria Fu

Materials: Painted mural on water silo

Install Date: July 2024

Description: Victoria Fu’s Ginkgo is painted onto a working grain silo that serves the Draft Republic & Tarantula Hill Brewing Co. brewery.  The site is one of the key public space anchors and congregation zones in North City and Ginkgo marks an incredible, visual landmark in this area. 

Consistent with Fu’s aesthetic and conceptual approaches with moving image installations, the 360 degree, "all-over" composition has been created using cast shadows of plants illuminated by colored lights. Deep purples, reds, greens, and blues are rich and compelling hues, and further complicate the spaces as defined by form and color. The plants are drawn from medicinal herbs found on walks in San Diego--in this particular case, ginkgo and goldenseal. By fusing pure color with the abstraction of local vegetation, the work is distinctly of Southern California. 

Special thanks to Dylan Flaherty, Jordan Readyhough, Matt Rich.

Curated by DVDL

Artist Bio: Based in San Diego, Victoria Fu (b. Santa Monica, California, USA) is a visual artist who received her MFA from CalArts, MA in Art History/Museum Studies from University of Southern California, and BA from Stanford University. Fu has received grants from Art Matters, Rema Hort Mann Foundation, Harpo Foundation, and is a 2015 Guggenheim Fellow. Her artwork is included in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Pérez Art Museum, Miami, FL; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA. She lives and works in San Diego, where she is Professor of Art at University of San Diego.

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