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Masters ceramics student Shiyuan Xu will showcase her work in her senior exhibition, "Revealing Obscurity" from April 25 to 29, 2016 at the Harry Wood Gallery on ASU's Tempe campus. 

Senior exhibition 'Revealing Obscurity' to bring major attention to microorganisms

In a stage of life where young adults are persistently reminded to keep their eyes on the big picture, it's not often that they stop to ponder and appreciate the tiny facets that comprise the whole. Masters ceramics senior Shiyuan Xu is using her senior thesis exhibition, "Revealing Obscurity," to push people out of their tendency to overlook the building blocks of life and encourage them to observe the microscopic matter that makes the world go round.  Xu said her work is comprised of many porcelain-based sculptures as well as some unconventional sketches, all of which she feels present microorganisms in a powerful, intriguing new way.  "The porcelain has a very fragile, pure form," she said. "It's connected to the organisms because they kind of have relationships to the fragile moment.

By Celina Jimenez | April 24, 2016
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