Samantha Nianqi Forkin is a Chinese American artist currently residing in California where she received her B.A. in Studio Art from Fresno State University. Samantha’s practice is rooted in a painterly background that ventures into other mediums as well, such as animation and 3D multimedia in which she uses to create her calm yet deep atmospheres that are striking and immersive. The balance between a dreamlike and digital quality creates an abstraction of subjects focusing on the intensity of memories and experiences, inviting you to dive deeper into the everyday.
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NEONQI comes from a play on my middle name Nianqi that I created. The latter’s meaning “to look at a beautiful piece of jade.” The word neon conjures the alluring glow of neon signs and their artificial beauty. Qi generally refers to the Chinese concept of the energy that can be found in everything, both living and nonliving. These concepts and the referentiality to myself and my identity has become a stamp in all of my work.