Jenie Gao

Thank you!

My recent solo show, The Integrity of a Story, at Alberta Printmakers Society.

Much of this new work I made during my art residency at Women's Studio Workshop. 💗

Thank you to the A/P team and Calgary community for being gracious hosts. 💚

#printmaker #woodcut #contemporaryart #printsky 💜🖼️ 🐡

Front cover of the novel, Against the Loveless World, by Susan Abulhawa. It's a hardcover book with jewel toned blues, pinks, violets, and peaches in an abstract geometric design overlaid on a starry night sky. The text is gold and white.

Current reading: Against the Loveless World, by Palestinian American author and activist Susan Abulhawa. 💙📚 #palestinianwriters #decolonizeyourbookshelf

So exhausting..

This is what I want from my reps or I don't want them at all, tbh

As a millennial, I recall a simpler time on the Internet when pedophiles had usernames like PrincessPeach1982 and Californiagurl69xo.

Today pedophiles have usernames like POTUS.

😞

#potus

One of my famous installation guides. I do my best to be kind to the curators and installation teams that handle my work.

For my upcoming solo show, The Integrity of a Story, at Alberta Printmakers, opening Sept 26 in Calgary, AB.

#contemporaryprintmaking #printmakers #printsky #installationart

Wall color for my upcoming solo show. #contemporaryprintmaking

Remember in films that lifelike avatars would be all "I'm sorry, my limited programming does not allow me to answer that question" and now we have LLM that will happily generate incorrect answers!

My other kitty, Marigold, and yet another graphic novel about cats.

Cats of the Louvre, by Taiyo Matsumoto.

#graphicnovel #comics #cats 💙📚

I know a lot of you have already heard or read about BDS Movement's call against Microsoft, and felt weird and bad about it all, but decided to move forward as normal because of some degree of ambiguity.

"What service is Microsoft providing?"

Here it is, clear as day. A direct line to death.

Re: time traveling, Kindred was so stressful, in some ways more so than Parable of the Sower 😩

The first one is a real doozy to read in 2025. 😅😩 Ready to dig into the second one!

How long ago? Maybe worth trying again?

Agreed!

It’s terrific and poignant. My favorite of her works thus far.

Front cover of Parable of the Sower, by Octavia Butler. The title is in red serif letters at the top, the author's name in large capital sans serif typeface at the bottom. The cover is simple with a white background and an illustration of a Black woman's silhouetted profile wearing a red dress and head wrap with a few leaf like shapes around her.

Decided to scare myself by reading Octavia Butler's prescient novel, Parable of the Sower.

Written in 1993. Set in 2024-2027. The book follows a disabled Black youth who devises survival strategies amidst high unemployment, addiction, militarized states, privatized cities, and religious zealots.🪐📚💙

Thank you!

Viewpoint overlooking blue mountains, islands, and blue ocean waters, and artist Jenie Gao's legs and hand holding a long horizontal sketchbook containing a watercolor painting of the scenery. Cypress Mountain viewpoint of Gambier and Bowen Islands. This hike is located in West Vancouver, on the lands of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples.

Lil #watercolor sketch of Cypress Mountain viewpoint of Gambier and Bowen Islands.

This hike is located in West Vancouver, BC, on the lands of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh peoples.

#enpleinair #mstland #pacificnorthwest #vancouverbc

Photo of the artist, Jenie Gao, sitting on a rocky ledge overlooking a mountain and ocean view. Jenie has black hair and olive skin, is holding a sketchbook, and is wearing a green tank top, bucket hat, and shorts.

A stranger took a candid photo of me making a #watercolor #painting from a viewpoint at Cypress Mountain.

💜🖼️🐡 #sketchbook #enpleinair #mountains

I dream of a time when we elect leaders who are not genociders. #FreePalestine.

A group of protestors standing in front of King Charles Street Arch holding Palestine flags and wearing keffiyeh. Some of the protestors are holding up a big yellow banner which says ‘Starmer, will you oppose ethnic cleansing? UK Jews say: Stand up to Trump!’

Na’amod @naamoduk.bsky.social (British Jews against occupation) protesting Trump’s visit to the UK near Downing Street today ✊🏽🇵🇸❤️

Photo of my hand—with an orange long sleeve—booping my cat, Mintaka, on the nose. Mintaka is a fluffy longhaired black cat with gold eyes. On the table adjacent to Mintaka is the book, Junji Ito's Cat Diary: Yon & Mu. The cover is black, white, and yellow and consists of a line art portrait of Junji Ito at the bottom, his wife at the top, and their two cats, a white cat with a black cap on the left and a fluffy tabby on the right.

My cat, Mintaka, plus literature.

Junji Ito's Cat Diary: Yon & Mu.

💙📚 #catlovers #blackcats #booksky #graphicnovels #comics 🐈‍⬛

Yay I'm glad!

One pleasant surprise when I joined Bluesky earlier this year is how robust and active the #printmaking community is here.

Follow and share your work with over 100+ folks on the #Printsky feed! 🌟

It searches for a variety of print-related terms and filters out AI content.

Formosan Sika Deer keep their spots long after they grow into adulthood.

They are indigenous to Taiwan, and I've included them in my newest #woodcut and #printmaking projects as a part of familial storytelling.

#printpromptmonday #growth #taiwaneseamericanartist 💜🖼️

Photo of a white cube contemporary art gallery called Dairy Arts Center in Boulder, CO. Jenie Gao’s artworks are on the far wall: two woodblock print diptychs in blue (left artwork) and green/red (right artwork), and also on a plinth in the center of the room, an artist’s book designed to resemble a Chinese takeout menu. There are a few other artworks in this shot, including a green chain link fence installation, a 2D photograph, and a sculpture of hands holding pingpong paddles. Photo by Wes Magyar.

Photo of a white cube contemporary art gallery called Dairy Arts Center in Boulder, CO. Jenie Gao’s artworks are on the far wall: two woodblock print diptychs in blue (left artwork) and green/red (right artwork), and also on a plinth in the center of the room, an artist’s book designed to resemble a Chinese takeout menu. There are a few other artworks in this shot, including a green chain link fence installation, a 2D photograph, and a sculpture of hands holding pingpong paddles. There is a grayscale 2D artwork of a landscape in the foreground of this photo. Photo by Wes Magyar.

Photo of a white cube contemporary art gallery called Dairy Arts Center in Boulder, CO. This is a close-up of Jenie Gao’s woodblock diptychs. On left: My Migration Route | Iris Roots Clean the Water, two long pale blue woodblock prints on canvas of a map of the Great Lakes overlaid with an iris flower. On right: Cycle | Breaking and Making: Pigeon and Fènghuáng, two woodblock prints on canvas hung like scrolls, of a pigeon (left) and fènghuáng / Chinese phoenix (right), in an elliptical chase designed to look like large green/red jade pendants. Photo by Wes Magyar.

Photo of a white cube contemporary art gallery called Dairy Arts Center in Boulder, CO. Jenie Gao’s artworks are on the far wall: two woodblock print diptychs in blue (left artwork) and green/red (right artwork), and also on a plinth in the center of the room, an artist’s book designed to resemble a Chinese takeout menu. There are a few other artworks in this shot, including a green chain link fence installation, a 2D photograph, and a sculpture of hands holding pingpong paddles. There are grayscale 2D artworks of landscapes in the foreground of this photo. Photo by Wes Magyar.

I was fortunate to have my work in Go West, a group exhibition showcasing Asian American artists in Boulder, CO this year.

Thank you to Dairy Arts Center, curator Stella Witcher, and jurors Rajiv Menon + Roseline Nevling for including me in this showcase.

#contemporaryart #printmaking #woodcut

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Thank you!!

Front cover of We'll Prescribe You a Cat: A Novel, by Syou Ishida, translated by E. Madison Shimoda. The cover is light blue with an illustration of a grey and white tabby cat perched inside of an orange medical prescription container. The title text is in a black serif typeface.

We'll Prescribe You a Cat: A Novel.

Chill read at an easygoing, slightly off beat pace with very mild twists as the plot reveals itself. Almost as if an aloof cat wrote it lol.

It won't make my favorites list but I finished it quickly and enjoyed it!

💙📚 #cats #catlovers