Edition number 9 of 50 from the limited edition In Furious Bloom, an archival pigment print on Canson Edition etching paper, measuring 6.5 x 8.25 inches. It is signed and numbered by the artist. It has been exhibited in Compulsive Beauty, Space 15th, in Seoul, 2010, and in Exhaustive, INKstudio at ART021 fair, Shanghai, 2016.

The image is derived from an earlier work of Jennifer’s of the same name, which was exhibited in Seoul, South Korea in 2010. Chrysanthemums were painted black with mo, Chinese ink, and grew and bloomed over the course of the exhibition. The composition was wild and congested at certain moments and space in places, creating a melody for a lament of love lost. While the plants dressed in black ink bring funerary imagery to mind, they are also a testimony to the perseverance and power of renewal.

Jennifer Wen Ma (b. 1973, Beijing, China) is a visual artist who moved to the United States in 1986, and received her Master of Fine Art degree in 1999 from Pratt Institute, New York. Ma works and lives between New York and Beijing. Her interdisciplinary practice bridges varied media such as installation, drawing, video, public art, design, performance, and theatre, often bringing together unlikely elements in a single piece to create sensitive, poetic and poignant works.

Jennifer has exhibited works or engaged in projects with numerous internationally recognized institutions including Spoleto Festival USA, Lincoln Center Festival, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Guggenheim Bilbao, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the National Art Museum of China.

In 2008, Ma was one of the seven members on the core creative team for the opening and closing ceremonies of the Beijing Olympics, and the chief designer for visual and special effects. She received an Emmy for the US broadcast of the ceremony.

Paradise Interrupted, a new installation opera conceived, visually designed, and directed by Jennifer Wen Ma, was performed at Spoleto Festival USA in 2015, and was the first original opera ever to be commissioned by the Festival.