WANG AIYING

While many of Wang Aiying’s peers avoid what is random and arbitrary, Wang positively embraces it: Painting is for her an adventure guided by intuition. Lines and dazzling colors layer and intertwine creating faces and objects that appear wild and distorted. Fleshy colors and raw textures create images that are at once grotesque and beautiful. Wang Aiying’s paintings are a response not only to paradox of China’s developing cities, but also to the human condition in which the joy of liberation must find a balance with the monstrosity of excess.  

Wang Aiying was selected as one of the top twenty artists in the 2005 Dragonair Emerging Chinese Artists Awards (DECAA I). Jury members of the important panel for the art award included Gerard Goodrow, Director of Art Cologne, and Jeff Kelley, Curator of the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco. Wang was awarded the “People’s Choice Award” at the event.