Liang-Yin WANG

b. 1979, Yunlin, Taiwan. Lives and works in Pingtung, Taiwan.

2008 M.F.A., Taipei National University of the Arts.

EXPERIENCE

2007 New Perspective Art in TaiwanDimensional Creation Series, First Prize, Taichung, Taiwan.

2014 Happy Birthday, My Dear, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan.

2018 The End of the Rainbow, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan.

ARTISTS STATEMENT

Wang has been not only in Taiwan but also overseas for exhibitions such as New York, Germany, UK, Japan, Jakarta, Korea, and China. She had solo exhibitions “Happy Birthday, My Dear" at Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei in 2014, “The End of the Rainbow" at Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei in 2018. Wang’s artworks are collected by National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Art Bank Taiwan, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Arts, Long Yen Foundation, Taipei National University of the Arts, Taichung County Seaport Art Center, and Sunpride Foundation, and are not only selected by Kaohsiung Award but also won the first prize of NewPerspective Art in Taiwan Dimensional Creation Series, Long Yen Foundation Creative Arts Award, Chang Hsing Lung Award and so on.

CREATIVE CONCEPT

Wang Liang-Yin’s creative path revolves around familiar scenes in life, depicting material stimuli as the theme. On the canvas, cool and warm, two conflicting color palettes coexist harmoniously, presenting an image of laughter and joy but with a quiet composure and a slightly sorrowful ambiance. Her works evolve from the intimate relationship between objects and the self to the ambiguity and contradiction between human beings, consumer society, and the natural environment.

Wang observes the world through desire, a common feeling of humankind. It detaches objects from their material appearance and transforms them into intimate metaphors, such as the circus, amusement park, toy figures, and Christmas trees, with a certain degree of spiritual abstraction and expressiveness. In her paintings, atmospheres are vivid and intense, paradoxical yet not obscure, with infectious energy laced with subtle, intimate dangers. Through her visions, viewers explore their memories and desires as they travel through the mottled patches of eternity.

Ambiguity and paradox are the most interesting two characteristics in Wang’s paintings. Wang uses bleeding brushstrokes and dripping pigments, leading the viewer to a distant spiritual border where the end is not the end. We seem to recognize everything, but it melts into another. There, reality and fantasy, memories and imagination, eternity and disappearance, and joy and cruelty become one. In this way, Wang’s paintings give the impression of intensely compelling mystery, especially the kind associated with disturbing dreams.

A beautiful yet fragile, we won’t say no to it; we witness; we are already in a feast.