Dawei Wang

2nd Place

Dawei Wang

Island | 2019 Mixed Media on Canvas | 147 x 177.5 cm

Dawei Wang david.wang.1984@live.cn www.daweiwangart.com

About

Living in cities, Wang observes moments when people are immersing in specific states: sitting still, being absent-minded, or being extremely relaxed and forgetting themselves. These scenes bring him sense of both intimacy and alienation. Strangers fusing into urban environment are familiar for Wang who was brought up in cities, while his imagination upon their intentions is opened due to the alienation derived from his identity as a foreigner. With the water-based pigments which are controllable and contingent, Wang balanced the attributes of different pigments to exhibit the conflict and integration of reality and imagination. As the artist said, “My creative process is to capture and play over those real and mellow moments and reproduce my impression through paintings”.

Curator Review Island

Artist Dawei Wang’s wonderfully expressive work, speaks with an illustrative narrative. His subjects sit, recline, laugh, tumble, play instruments and read with fluidity. Wang’s perspective of these various social dynamics, fades into the distance whilst creating a visual open space that is also filled. There is much to be admired in his dedicated vision of immersion, balance and spatial equity. - E.E. Jacks

New York United States of America