[ Yeqiang Wang ]

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BIO:

YEQIANG WANG is a Chinese artist living and working in Windsor. He is currently an art instructor at Mackenzie Hall and the Art gallery of Windsor, specialising in oil and watercolour painting. He also conducts workshops in his studio. He has won three bronze medals in three different national watercolour competitions in China. In 2000, as one of six watercolourists representing Canada, his work won an Outstanding Canadian Work prize in the Fourth International Watercolour Biennial in Mexico.

ARTIST STATEMENT:

Originally from Chongqing China, where I was trained in the state-approved, academic school of fine arts, I made the long trek to Canada (both physically and psychically) to attend the Graduate Program of the University of Windsor's School of Visual Arts. In the past a few years since I lived here, I have developed a pictorial style that combines an exquisite, traditional painting technique with an outsider's view of an often incomprehensible new world. As a diaspora, I depict a fragmented impression of the new culture I was suddenly immersed in, and "slams it against the closed cultural circle" of my traditional Chinese background. With a particular fascination with reflective surfaces-windows, doors, mirrors, blinds and glass (which I wish to function as "portals of perception") I create site-specific, hyper-realistic paintings that merge with and mimic the physical spaces they occupy, deviating only slightly from reality by being given an "Oriental flare".

 

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