Jinny Yu | Partial Order

JINNY YU

PARTIAL ORDER Saturday, September 19th - Friday, October 9th

Nicholas Metivier Gallery is thrilled to present Partial Order, an exhibition of new paintings and watercolours

by Jinny Yu, on view through October 9th. This marks Yu's second solo exhibition at the gallery.

In Partial Order, Jinny Yu continues to embrace the language of abstraction as a means to investigate and understand the world around us. Working with watercolour on paper and oil on aluminum, Yu superposes shapes of colour, forming folds of three-dimensional forms while remaining just outside the realm of possibility. These shifting compositions serve as a metaphor for the spaces we inhabit and the fluid nature of identity.

Drawing inspiration from concepts in quantum physics, Yu views "partial order" as a way to think about movement and displacement. Rather than seeing movement simply as migrating from point A to point B, Yu considers it a generative process in which past, present, and future remain intertwined, allowing competing positions to coexist, not as a problem to solve, but as a permanent condition to inhabit.

"The concept of 'partial order' is an exploration of dimensional generation, where movement is not a change of location but the absolute creation of space." - Jinny Yu

Jinny Yu Superposition W26-03, 2026 watercolour on paper 23 1/2 x 21 1/2 in.

Jinny Yu Superposition W26-15, 2026 watercolour on paper 23 1/2 x 21 1/2 in.

Jinny Yu Superposition W25-02, 2025 watercolour on paper 23 1/2 x 21 1/2 in.

Jinny Yu Superposition W26-12, 2026 watercolour on paper 23 1/2 x 21 1/2 in.

Jinny Yu Superposition W26-10, 2026 watercolour on paper 23 1/2 x 21 1/2 in.