Chen Yingzhou

Chen Yingzhou reimagines traditional painting through the chaotic, satirical energy of online culture, weaving together classical techniques with the irreverence of memes, mash-ups, and digital collage. He draws from meme culture, trolling tactics, mash-up aesthetics, and kitchen-sink collage methods—approaches that echo early online content creation—to deconstruct political ideologies, current events, philosophical themes, and grand narratives. His works often resemble satirical cartoons or pop-art hybrids in their imagery and tone, while being executed with a painterly rigor that mimics digital rendering. By hand-crafting effects reminiscent of computer graphics—complete with bold outlines, flattened planes, and glossy surfaces—he blurs the boundaries between analog and digital, mocking, yet embracing, our media-saturated visual culture. Through this fusion of online logic and painterly execution, Chen questions how ideology and imagery are consumed, circulated, and transformed. His practice reflects a broader inquiry into how painting can stay relevant in the internet era—reimagining representation through irony, humor, and layered visual references. ...