Rhythmic and careful, elegant and searching, Meng Yang’s paintings combine blossoming potency with soft-hued delicacy. Yang uses lines as though they were crucial to survival, making them the visual building blocks of her intricate paintings. The lines ubiquitously stand in for control and stability, but also for freedom. Though the repetition of strokes connotes consistency, the finality and immediacy of each line imbues Yang’s paintings with a constantly mounting potential energy. She introduces lyrical shapes, which interrupt the stable directionality of her lines and erupt within her compositions like small gusts of wind.
The serenity of Yang’s judiciously rendered paintings tempers their underlying intensity, evoking the sensation of a lucid dream: though aware of the urgency of the corporal world, the viewer is distanced from reality by a quixotic, cadenced haze of marks. Meng Yang studied art at the Academy of Fine Arts in Tianjin, China, and currently studies at the Akademie der Bildenden Kunste in Nürnberg, Germany, where she lives and works.
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