Jing Feng (b.2000 Taishan, China) is a multidisciplinary artist and designer who works with jewelry, ceramics, mixed-media sculpture and assemblage. Drawn to the act of myth-making as an imaginative, world-building instrument, Feng’s jewelry and sculptures are characterized by their fantastical dimensions and sacred, narrative qualities that embody a heroine’s journey.
Feng imagines the heroine as one of psychic hybridity & multiplicity: the maiden, warrior, mother, queen, princess, angel, victim, demon, tragedienne, creature, the divine and the scorned are all one. These archetypes and their counterparts appear in her work frequently as chimeric fragments of an abstract odyssean journey: a horned six legged hare, a harpy perched upon a tower, a centaur girl wielding a sword, and varied necklace silhouettes with mythical creatures and symbolisms that channel the regal and grotesque.
Informed by her personal history and inspired by mythology, art history, literature, poetry and philosophy, Feng creates works to make sense of her existence and explore the transcendent possibilities of myth and metamorphoses. Her practice examines the feminine hysteric as well as the relationships between violence and tenderness, human and animal worlds, and divinity and powerlessness. Feng graduated with a BFA from the University of Southern California in 2022 and now works and lives in Brooklyn, NY.
jing@harlothands.com