Emily Wang is a painter and photographer born in 1971 in Taiwan. Wang holds two MFA degrees, one in Painting and the other in Photography; she also holds BA and MA degrees in Philosophy. Her work has won numerous prizes and been exhibited nationally in the United States.
Read MoreWang first studied photography and painting with artist Lon Clark under the New York School tradition. Later she studied with Philadelphia colorist Bill Scott and Jan Baltzell. The complexity of experience—both within and without—and the underlying metaphors brought about through seeing, sensing, observing, reverie, dreams, and memories are central to Wang’s work.
A colorist at heart, color and light are her language. Through the approach of all-over painting that forms the pictorial space with the abstract structure of figurative imagery, Wang’s work is both multi-layered and experiential. It is a transformative process – engaging a visual energy and qualities of emotional tension through the dynamics of visual syntax, which in turn creates feeling and visual metaphor. Hence, Wang’s work requires patience and prolonged seeing and from different angles to allow the nuances of color relation and gestural movement converge into a new entity where form is impregnated with new forms creating a multi-faceted visual narrative.
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