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DAF Group Feature: Vol. 160

June 16, 2016 By Wendy Campbell

Your Weekly Mixx! DAF’s Weekly Mixx is a selection of nine contemporary artworks and/or art related videos chosen from artist and gallery submissions and from our own search for new and interesting works. This week, we feature Artsy.net‘s Fourth Art Market series Video,  Bobbie Russon, Victor Wang Patrick, Dougherty, Linda Vachon, Kevin Peterson, Jylian Gustli, Floto and Warner, Carol Nelson

Visit the Submissions page for information on how to have your art featured in the Weekly Mixx.

The Art Market (in Four Parts): Art Fairs from Artsy on Vimeo.

linda vachon bit.lylindavachon
Carol-Nelson-carolnelsonfineart
Floto-and-Warner-flotowarner.com
Kevin-Peterson-kevinpetersonstudios.com
Jylian Gustlin jyliangustlin.com
Victor Wang victorwang.net
Bobbie Russon bobbierusson.com
Patrick-Dougherty-stickwork.net

Filed Under: ART, Group Feature, Installation, Mixed Media, Painting, Photography, Sculpture, Video Tagged With: Bobbie Russon, Carol Nelson, Floto and Warner, Jylian Gustlin, Kevin Peterson, Linda Vachon, Patrick Dougherty, Victor Wang

Victor Wang: Painting

April 21, 2012 By Wendy Campbell

Born and raised in northern China,  Victor Wang is currently a professor of fine arts at Fontbonne University in St. Louis, Missouri.  Wang has a BFA (oil painting) from the Lu Xun Academy of Fine Arts in China and an MFA from Fontbonne University where he works.

Of his painting, Wang says, “My path through life has been adventurous, exciting, and dream-like. My experience of settling into America in search of better opportunities has been both challenging and inspiring. I use the human face as a vehicle to paint human experiences – worry and wonder, sadness and pleasure – which reflect the emotional stage directly tied to my immigration experiences.

China’s Cultural Revolution played an important part in my life. During that time, sunflowers were used as political allegories to depict how citizens of China should follow Mao who represented the sun, since sunflowers follow the sun’s movements. People eventually inferred the deception that this symbol masked. After graduating from high school, I was sent to a labor camp in the country for ‘reeducation’ during China’s Cultural Revolution. There, I was subject to grueling farm work. Often, I worked in corn and sunflower fields from sunrise to sunset. Thus, for me, sunflowers evoke both personal joy and sadness. Therefore, to deliver my complex feelings, I use sunflowers as a metaphor to connote my background and emotional stage.  My incorporation of collages of figures from China’s Tang Dynasty represents my Chinese heritage and is a constant reminder of where I came from. The texture and earthiness on the canvas’s surface are inspired by the texture of the soil on the farm where I worked in China.”

To see more of Wang’s work, visit VictorWang.net.



Filed Under: ART, Painting Tagged With: American Art, Chinese Art, Victor Wang

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