Medium: pencils, bristol
Size: 18 x 24 inch
In this piece, I portrayed my childhood city: Shanghai, China. As time passed, memories of my childhood have also become increasingly fuzzy. The muddy colors and soft strokes echo these fond yet growingly distant recollections. However, the memory of home is always vivid - a quiet house awaiting me at the end of an alley with a welcome glow.
Medium: acrylic color, light molding paste, canvas
Size: 18 x 24 inch
This painting depicts a corner of a worn down building. The building bears visible traces of age: every crack and faded paint is an imprint of time. Nature leaves its fingerprint through subtraction, the opposite of the typical humanistic approach via addition. To represent this observation, I freely layered up the paint then stripped some away over multiple iterations to create a worn texture. Aging is about stripping away the artificial uniformity to reveal the unique complexity beneath.
Medium: Paper, acrylic color, coarse pumice gel
Size: 9 x 11 inch
This piece is inspired by Robert Frost’s poem The Road Not Taken. At life’s crossroads, we are faced with dilemmas and critical decisions. On this canvas, I decided not to fill in all the paths with black. I let negative space forge its own path instead. Ultimately, what we decide not to do is just as important as what we decide to do.
Medium: Acrylic color
Size：18 x 24 inch
Two of my landscape paintings, consisting of variously textured color schemes organized around the central vanishing point, employ the expressive colors (lime-yellow predominates in one and wine-red in the other) to reflects stages of autumn. These paintings were inspired by my favorites parts of Tchaikovsky’s ballet The Seasons (The Hunt and Autumn Song). For me the stark lime-yellow synesthetically resonates with G Major, the key of the former, while the dark hues of the latter seem to accommodate the key of D Minor. I completed these during my studio time (along with seven other canvases) this past year.
Medium: Acrylic color
Size：18 x 24 inch
Two of my landscape paintings, consisting of variously textured color schemes organized around the central vanishing point, employ the expressive colors (lime-yellow predominates in one and wine-red in the other) to reflects stages of autumn. These paintings were inspired by my favorites parts of Tchaikovsky’s ballet The Seasons (The Hunt and Autumn Song). For me the stark lime-yellow synesthetically resonates with G Major, the key of the former, while the dark hues of the latter seem to accommodate the key of D Minor. I completed these during my studio time (along with seven other canvases) this past year.
Medium: Pencils, bristol
Size：18 x 24 inch
When I got the prompt of creating a still-life drawing, I decided to render it unique by arranging the objects in an unusual perspective by reflecting objects through the mirror.
Medium: Acrylic color
Size：18 x 24 inch
Experimenting wider brushstrokes and fluid lines.
Medium: Acrylic color
Size：18 x 24 inch
Depicted a table setting.