Artist’s Statement
The work A Solitary Temple Amid Clearing Peaks represents a space extended from flat images. It connotes the Buddhist concept of “Samara,” a continuum of ever transmigrating and transfiguration being. The thread, when moving from the surface into an empty space, changes its character entirely. On the surface of one side of the framed screen, it is part of a famous Chinese landscape painting. As it traverses the inner space of the frame, it becomes part of a three-dimensional sculpture. But the object often revert to its beginning state upon being returned to its original space, just as the thread becomes once again part of the painting once it reaches screen. The existent (the painting) and the illusive (the abstract body), in my view, are but two states of one realm.
In Dust In Evolution, numerous silhouettes of people selected from news photographs are carved out from the wall. Below each floating figure, the carved-off scraps are carefully collected and kept in a small plastic bag. Each figure becomes a visual narrative of his own, and each has a story which is up to the viewer to discern. Whether the depicted person is in present or has gone, the social traces left by that person are remained in the world and existed as another state of being. The endless cycles of different states of being then comprise the life in the boundless universe. |
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“Fine Art Asia 2012”, 3812 Contemporary Art Projects,
Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Hong Kong
“The 2nd Western China International Art Biennale”,
Yinchuan Culture and Art Center, Yin Chuan
”Chinese Contemporary Public Art in Kassel”, Kassel
“Openness and Integration-Chinese Contemporary Art”,
Hungarian National Museum, Budapest
Art Exhibition to commemorate the 70th Anniversary of
“Talks at the Yan’an Forum on Art and Literature”
The National Art Museum of China, Beijing
"New Horizon-Contemporary Chinese Art", National Museum of Australia, Canberra
"Harmony" Tower, Future Pavilion, EXPO 2010, Shanghai
"Old Media, Old News", Luminary Art Center, Saint Louis
"The Craft of Politics", Montpelier Art Center, Laurel
"6th International Fiber Biennial", Snyderman-Works Gallery, Philadelphia
"Familiar Faces", Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, VA
"SCOPE 2007 Miami", DEAN Project booth, Miami
"Pricked: Extreme Embroidery", Museum of Art and Design, New York
"Assumed Identity", Anderson Gallery, College of New Jersey, New Jersey
"Contexture: Fabric, Fashion and Fantasy", Space 301, Mobile, AL
"Collective Observations", Chesapeake Gallery, Harford Community College, Baltimore, MD
"21st International Juried Show", Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ
"Outside Inside", Philadelphia Art Alliance. Philadelphia
"Stray Show Chicago", Vox Populi Gallery booth, Chicago
"Great (re)Masters", Spector Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
National Juried Competition, Phoenix Gallery. New York
Art Center of Northern New Jersey 9th National Juried Show, New Jersey
"Nudes and Erotica", Salon des Amis Gallery, Malvern, PA
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“Evidence of Existence”, Joyce Gallery Beijing,
3812 Contemporary Art Projects, Beijing
"We Will Be Your Mirror", YinTai Center, Beijing2010
"Related Rations", SZ Art Center, Beijing
"You Can’t Sit Down", Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia
"Xiang Yang's Solo Exhibition", Snyderman-Works Gallery, Philadelphia
"Seemingly So, But Actually Not",
Repetti Gallery, Long Island City, New York
"The Shadow of the Empire", Vox Populi, Philadelphia
"Beyond the Duplicated Voice", Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia
"Buddha Says", Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia
"Triple Trouble", Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia
Peng’s Gallery, Philadelphia
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