If Rothko polished the world to an icy emptiness, Annie Hsiao-Wen Wang tunes it to melodic perfection.
The paintings of Annie Hsiao-Wen Wang are both a reaction to, and a reflection of her scientific education. Having studied a double degree in Physics and Engineering at the University of Western Australia, she went on to study Visual Arts and Photomedia at Edith Cowan University. This range of endeavour and enquiry, combined with her Buddhist heritage, has resulted in powerful and rarefied works.
The colourist abstract paintings seek, with their scale, to fill the viewer’s field of view, providing an opportunity to meditate on both the numinous and the emotional. The creation of the works by the artist is led by both rational concerns of colour theory, surface quality and composition, combined with the intuitive and emotional process of the meditative practice.
Informed by influences from Rothko and figurative 3D work, her broad range of work hints at a commitment and rigour to the artist – both as self-observer and reflector of the universal human experience.
- Simon Gilby -
Press:
States of Mind - Asian Art News (Hong Kong), Vol. 21 No. 6 November/December 2011
Something for everyone – The West Australian, R. Spencer, 15th October 2010
Illuminating abstract – Asian Art News (Hong Kong), Vol. 20 No. 5 September/October 2010
Prayer on a g-string – The West Australian, R. Spencer, 18th September 2009
Uneasy bodies of work – The Wire Mag, J. Bahr, 10th September 2009
The West Australian – S. Bevis, 18th July 2009
Represented by:
Gaffer, Hong Kong
MiFA, Melbourne, Australia
Perth Galleries, North Fremantle, Australia