Ming Wang
Bio: Ming Wang is from Shenzhen, China. She lives and works in New York. Ming received her BFA from the School of Visual Arts in 2020. She is an MFA candidate in Columbia University in 2023. Ming works with painting, drawing, and printmaking. Her painting was featured in New American Paintings in 2021. Ming’s work has been exhibited in New York and internationally, including at Guan Shanyue Art Museum in China, scroll nyc, Half Gallery, Village One Art, and Belenius in Stockholm in spring 2023.
http://mingwangart.com/
Instagram: @mingmingmingwang
Thesis Exhibition
Artist Statement: My work is drawn from memory, emotions, and experiences. I place characters and motifs in different settings, experiment with space and depth, and then create images which become curious simulacra.
My recent collection of work utilizes urban and natural landscapes to reflect psychological space. I think about freedom and containment in these works: nature is the symbol of the inevitable, something that is uncontrollable by human will, while urban structures such as fences and walls present constraints or boundaries.
Blue girl is a shadow character who can transform into different shapes. She is the avatar who travels through the space in my work, who observes and experiences trees by the sidewalk and sky, looking through windows and fences. The Shadow is anonymous and fluid. The anonymity of the shadow avatar not only is a safe camouflage but it also provides a sense of freedom— free from gravity, and social identities that restrict one to their role. Sometimes she is a female persona, sometimes she is a leaf, sometimes she is a spider, and sometimes she multiplies. When transformed into different forms, her personality and sensibility change accordingly.
She is my shadow, your shadow, and the shadow of any being.
L to R: Pink Days (82" x 52", Oil on canvas, 2023); Cocoon (82" x 52", Oil on canvas, 2023); River Park (82" x 52", Oil on canvas, 2023); Shadow, Spider and Leaf (12" x 24", Etching, silkscreen, and thread on paper, 2023); Window Spider (82" x 52", Oil on canvas, 2023)
First Year Exhibition
L to R: Endless Bridge (32" x 40" x 1.5", Oil on canvas, 2022); It's too bright I have to go (8" x 8", Modeling paste on canvas, 2022); Lights Out (11" x 14", Oil, modeling paste on canvas, 2022)
