Anica Xie is an multimedia artist based between New York and San Francisco. She is currently pursuing an BA in Art History at Barnard College, Columbia University.

 

She is a strong advocate for dispensable aesthetics. Works are created spontaneously in within one sitting or through candid shots. Beauty within the mundane strangely transfixes the artist with a lingering but blurry mystique. Seeking to capture the pure subjective essence of ephemeral pictorial experiences, her artworks facilitate the toil of decluttering her mind to extract raw elements of emotion.

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Thematically, Anica's art practice concentrates on restraint--exploring the everpresent tensions between discipline and emotion, the impersonal and the sensitive to come to terms with impermanence and self-reflection. In a growing metropolis, bodies of water are expanses of silence, anonymity, and reservoirs of peace. ​​

 

Her creative influences include Gilles Deleuze, Yves Saint Laurent, John Singer Sargent, Gerhard Richter, Richard Prince, Agnes Martin, Édouard Manet, and Marguerite Duras.