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Jiaqi Ma
  • Art Studio and Classical Studies
  • Class of 2017
  • Beijing

Jiaqi Ma Exhibits Painting Thesis at Freeman Gallery

2017 Sep 26

Jiaqi Ma's senior painting thesis is on display at Wesleyan's Freeman Gallery. The five paintings are based on her experiences living in Beijing. On Sept. 20, Ma presented an artist's talk inside the gallery.

"I feel as though I made my memories real by building my own city through the process of painting," she said.

"My painting process is similar to the never-ending development of a city," she explained. "Buildings and passages are created and erased, changed and layered, compositions and neighborhoods shift and mature. Similarly, my feelings and memories of my hometown, Beijing, have evolved as I distance myself geographically and chronologically."

Ma, a Freeman Asian Scholar, is double majoring in classical studies and studio art and minoring in archaeology.