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JIA LU
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Jia Lu
Born in China in 1954, Jia Lu grew up in a family of artists.She came to an early appreciation of the beauty and power of the human figure in a home surrounded by plaster casts of world sculpture.She worked as a nurse, a film and television actor, a naval officer, and an art editor before enrolling in the Central Academy of Art and Design to begin her professional training as an artist. Jia Lu was already an accomplished figure painter in Chinese media when she left China for Canada in 1983.It was while working as a research assistant on the faculty of Visual Arts at York University that Jia was first exposed to Western psychological approaches to the human form.She subsequently taught art in Ontario and Alberta and now lives and paints full time in Los Angeles, California.Jia is not afraid of beauty.In fact, she declares it to the world without shame or apology.She calls it forth in her paintings of young women, clothed in radiant flesh, luxurious silks, and opulent jewelry.Her s is a world inhabited by graceful figures contemplating the mysteries of existence, secure and unthreatened, supremely confident and self-assured.There are goddesses in the bodies of these young women, filled with power and knowledge.Through her realism, Jia animates lifeless material, transforming inert oil paint into a reality that awakens our senses to the existence of another plane.For 2004, Jia has created a special collection exclusively for Passions Gallery, which is comprised of both male and female figures.Premiering at our first Collectors Only Weeken d , t his collection is sure to be coveted by fans of Jia's work from around the globe.pdgn l