ADINA DING

ADINA_DING

Adina Ding is a visual artist who works with poetic imagery, creating figurative and abstract works led by fantasy and imagination.

Her subjects include exquisite landscapes, abundant nature, radiant animals, and mysterious women. Those female protagonists are glazing out at the viewer or pictured in powerful transcendental actions, conjuring up light, growth, and weather.

She uses a combination of fully rendered detail and more experimental fluid, dripping paint, texture, and overpainting to create further layers within the work. The landscapes within her paintings are tranquil coastal scenes, lush vistas of seasonal bounty, and underwater worlds. Boats, birds, and jellyfish all come to life within her compositions; they move within her imaginary landscapes, creating a notion of freedom. This is reinforced by the confident presence of the people within her paintings, steady and contented, free-spirited as the birds.

‘‘Hero’’ Mixed Media, 12’’x15.9’’

Several works hold multiple elements of narrative, for example, a scene of two convening golden planets, large on the horizon and electric in their bolts of interaction, or the girl with antlers which are also trees, meandering between pines,

“Love Your Presence” Mixed Media, 31.4”x39.3” accompanied by a multi-colored planet and scarab-eye motifs. Each painting is also accompanied by a poem written by Ding that further reflects on the story of the work.

‘‘Faith’’ Mixed media, 12’’x15.9’’