YANGYANG PAN
Down the Rabbit Hole May 9 – June 21, 2014
37 Popham Rd., Scarsdale, NY 10583 www.madelynjordonfineart.com
Down the rabbit hole…. This catalog marks the occasion of Yangyang Pan’s second solo exhibition of paintings at Madelyn Jordon Fine Art. The exhibition, entitled Down the Rabbit Hole, will be on view from May 9 – June 21, 2014. On exhibit is 11 paintings, completed in the past year, which highlight Pan’s spontaneous, lyrical approach to painting. The exhibition title, “Down the Rabbit Hole” serves as a metaphor for both Pan’s working process and her personal existential journey inward in the creation of the works. Similarly, the title refers to historical artistic sources which come to mind in the formation of Pan’s celebratory style. Both provide a foundation for Pan’s reinterpretation of action painting, fueled by youthful optimism, a cross-cultural history and outsized talent. Like Alice in Wonderland following the March Hare down the rabbit hole, Pan jumps into her paintings feet first without looking in the hole or thinking about it. According to Pan, her paintings begin with openness-- a space to explore conceptual ideas of memory, experience and emotion. A hands-on painter, she works intuitively, freely applying vigorous flurries of rapid brushstrokes of varying shapes and intensity. Color patches are added or taken away, a self-imposed game explored through shapes, marks and colors, which organize the space of the canvas. At times her canvases are packed to the rafters with linear strokes; at other times, softer dabs of energetic colors float within fields of negative space. Canvases of raw linen, a new surface for Pan, accentuate the separation between paint and ground evoking a sense of deep physical space. Channeling de Kooning, and Mitchell, Pan’s fiercely saturated, unabashed, high key color palette evokes powerful emotional responses. Unapologetically ecstatic visions of nature’s flora are rendered with both guts and grace—evoking a personal style which seeks honesty, openness and pleasure. Dappling reflections and calligraphic moments convey Pan’s keen observations of light’s illusions on earth. Unlike the Abstract Expressionist artists of the mid- 20th century, who communicated the uncertainty and fear of a post World War II nuclear world, Pan’s abstract painting evokes an idealistic, optimistic, global view. Linking Eastern and Western sensibilities, her paintings are successful for her individualistic visual language, and is emblematic of painting in the 21st century. Madelyn Jordon
Nice Day Escape, 2014 oil, charcoal and pastel on linen, 30 x 46 inches
The Morning After, 2014 oil, charcoal and pastel on canvas 30 x 30 inches
Eye the Distant Hills, 2014 oil, charcoal and pastel on paper, 30 x 46 inches
Bamboo, 2014 oil, charcoal and pastel on linen 48 x 36 inches
Blooming Tree, 2014 oil, charcoal and pastel on linen, 30 x 48 inches
Garden Rose, 2014 oil, charcoal and pastel on canvas 30 x 30 inches
A Dream Within a Dream, 2014 oil, charcoal and pastel on linen, 30 x 46 inches
Shade Tree, 2014 oil, charcoal and pastel on linen, 30 x 46 inches
Last Fall, 2014 oil, charcoal and pastel on linen, 30 x 46 inches
Light My Way, 2014 oil, charcoal and pastel on linen 48 x 36 inches
Travelling Light, 2014 oil, charcoal and pastel on linen, 30 x 48 inches
Cloudy, 2014 oil on canvas 12 x 12 inches
YANGYANG PAN Education 2002 MFA, Sichuan Fine Art Institute, Chongqing, China 1998 BFA , Sichuan Fine Art Institute, Chongqing, China Selected Solo Exhibitions 2014 Down the Rabbit Hole, Madelyn Jordon Fine Art, Scarsdale, NY, USA 2013 Beautiful Moment, Parts Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada 2012 Spring Fever, Madelyn Jordon Fine Art gallery, NY, USA 2012 Flower on Wall, Canadian Fine Arts gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada Selected Group Exhibitions 2014 The Artist Project, Toronto, ON, Canada 35th Annual Art Auction, Burlington Art Centre, ON, Canada 2013 The Artist Project, Toronto, Canada, ON, Canada Salon Show, Parts Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada Helene Cenedese & Yangyang Pan , Parts Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada Rochester MFA Biennial, Rochester, NH, USA Group Exhibition, Atti Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada
2012 Perspective, Mckay Art Centre, Markham, ON, Canada Group Show, Atti Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada The Canadian Landscape, Gallery 1313, Toronto, ON, Canada 2012 Biannual Juried Exhibition, Grimsby Public Art gallery, Grimsby, ON, Canada Imagination 2012, Neilson Park Creative Centre, Mississauga, ON, Canada Art Beat, Mckay Art Centre, Markham, ON, Canada
2011 Queen West Art Crawl, Toronto, ON, Canada In Transition, Mckay Art Centre, Markham, ON, Canada 11 Artists, 9 countries, Sunbury Shores Art Centre, ON, Canada International Women Arts Exhibition, Fredericton Region Museum, ON, Canada Shift, Living Arts Centre Gallery, Mississauga, ON, Canada 2010 Forces of Nature, Glenhyrst Art Gallery, ON, Canada Nuit Blanche Group Show, Studio 561, Toronto, ON, Canada Square Foot Show, Awol Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada Artist Choice, Neilson Park Creative Centre, Mississauga, ON, Canada 2009 2nd Annual Open Juried Show 2009, Beaux-Arts Brampton Energeia 12-13, Energy Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada Square Foot Show, Awol Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada World of Imagination Vol.2, APW Gallery, NY, USA The Emerging Artists Revealed, St. Clair Art Walk, Toronto, ON, Canada Group Show, Wychwwod Barns Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada
Selected Bibliography “Meet The Artist”, Fresh Style magazine, March/ April issue 2014, page 10. “Designer Knows Best”, Style At Home magazine, February 2014, page 100. “The Beautiful Moment by Yangyang Pan”, Mocoloco.com, Oct 16, 2013 “This Moment”,Gooood.hk, Oct 29, 2013 “RMFA Biennial Exhibition Catalog”, Rochester Museum of Fine Arts, March 21, 2013 “RMFA Exhibit to Open April 6”, Rochester Times, fosters.com, April 4, 2013 “Wordless Translation,” Sabine Modder, exhibition essay: Wordless Translation, TAP, 2013 “Sunflower By Yangyang Pan”, Mocoloco.com, Jan 16, 2013 “Yangyang Pan Spring Exhibition of New Paintings”, CFA gallery, akimbo.ca, Feb 26, 2012 “Design News”, New York Magazine, nymag.com, Feb 22, 2012 "Yangyang Pan 2012 work", International Contemporary Artist Vol V, page 197, 2012 "Spring Fever", Antiques and The Arts Weekly, April 27, 2012 “Summer Garden”, New York Times, May 8, 2012. “Yangyang Pan, Spring Fever”, Artlog.com, May 3, 2012. “742. Yangyang Pan”, a1000livingpainters.wordpress.com, Feb 28, 2012 “Weekend News, Mandarin Edition”, OMNI TV, Feb19, 2011 “Shift”, Fairchild TV, Feb12, 2011 "Shift", Cole Swanson, Sing Tao, Feb 5, 2011 “Mandarin Profile Interview”, Fairchild TV, June 20, 2009
Grants / Awards 2013 Back to Nature competition semi finalist at Saachi Online. 2012 Juror's Choice Award, Art Beat juried group show, MGA, Mckay Art Centre, ON 2011 Exhibition Assistance Grant, Ontario Arts Council 2002 Graduate Exhibition Award, Sichuan Fine Arts Institute, China 2001 Medal Winner for Design, Chongqing Daily News Group, China
Collections Archives of Ontario The Rochester Museum of Fine Arts, USA. Provide Commerce, USA Anthropologie, USA Vdara Las Vegas, USA Sugarbowl Jewelry, East Perth, WA, Australia Sichuan Fine Art Institute, China
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