YANG ART

Yang comments on China's fast developing urban landscapes by painting striking black-and-white abstract acrylic images on photographic paper.

 

The artist's combination of photographic paper and Chinese ink images of the urban landscapes has interested foreign art critics who have praised her traditional-modern fusion technique.

 

"The spaces I paint are actually complicated scenes with a lot of things and goings-on. I put them in black and white to reduce them into objects and shapes, to return to the essentials of drawing.

"I believe Chinese are born with the ability to understand qi. But a real artist doesn't have to utter his/her ethnic identity or gender. If my paintings remind viewers of Chinese ink painting, I'd rather take it as unconscious expression and I'm just keeping it there," -- Yang