Maximalist Illustrations by Feixue Mei

Missouri-based artist and designer Feixue Mei uses vibrant colors to produce bold illustrations that are brimming with details.

“I create conceptual, iconic imagery, and rich narrative details. My work explores publications, illustrations, sequential arts, videos, installations, and performances. Internet culture, animation, comics, Surrealism, and Chinese folk decorative art are among the influences that shaped my intricate style.

Cultures and visuals migrate and go across geographical boundaries through the internet and social media. Fluid identity, otherness, mistranslation, displacement, and the struggle to find one’s own community are important parts of my practice. By using adaptation, appropriation, and reproduction, I free symbols and visuals from their original contexts and put them into new narratives. I make the familiar become unfamiliar and open to various interpretations and meanings.”

— Feixue Mei

Feixue has received a number of awards for her work, and her pieces have been exhibited nationally and internationally.

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