Huang Yuanqing 黄渊青

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Huang Yuanqing is a Chinese abstract painter. Born in 1963, Huang lives and works in Shanghai.

Contents 1 Date & Place of Birth 2 Education & Development 3 Art 3.1 Style 3.2 Medium 4 Exhibitions 5 Interviews  6 References

[edit] Date & Place of Birth

Huang was born in 1963 in Shanghai.

[edit] Education & Development

In 1985, Huang earned his Bachelor of Science from Shanghai University of Science and Technology, and in 1989, his Master's from Shanghai Normal University.

[edit] Art

Huang, who shows widely in Asia and has participated in solo and group shows in Europe, is one of Shanghai’s leading abstract artists, his style an evocative hybrid of Chinese and Western tropes.   A painter who studied the sciences instead of attending a fine arts academy, he taught himself to be an expert calligrapher, a skill that remains at the heart of his endeavors.^[1]

[edit] Style

Huang's work can be separated into two categories: the abstract expressionist and the abstract figurative. The first group consists of exuberantly brushed fields of color.  At times, one color dominates, such as the ravishing red of his untitled five feet by ten feet diptych from 2008. He then weaves in other hues, clusters of marks that stitch the surface or are rooted just beneath it, informed by the artist’s study of calligraphy and not simply gestural in impulse. Other times, his abstractions are more differentiated, using short, quick, repetitive strokes stacked like small ladders or drawn out in longer flourishes. These are juxtaposed with blocks of solid color, the gestures visible, the ground light in shade, the rhythms lively, syncopated.  This group is often large in scale, like the encompassing paintings of the New York School and American painters such as Willem de Kooning, Franz Kline or Arshile Gorky, some of whom were early influences. However, Huang Yuanqing comes from a Chinese tradition, which shifts the meaning of the painting from the egoistic to the elemental, into alignment with the vital forces of nature. His more figurative work is characterized by whimsy, not easy to pin down but perhaps an animal or an acrobat, say, the grounds again monochrome and richly inflected, the taut, vibrant lines once more indebted to and enriched by the rigors of the calligraphic.^[1]

[edit] Medium

Huang works on both paper and canvas, using water-based pigments and oil. In the past, he has also collaged rice paper to canvas in another blending of East and West. Over the past ten years, he has simplified his surfaces, relinquishing the material complexities of his earlier work for painted fields of oil and acrylic. Most recently, his paintings have depended upon brushwork for their texture, as he builds up the strokes and sets them into motion.^[1]

[edit] Exhibitions

Huang has recently participated in exhibitions at the Shanghai Art Museum, the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Z Art Center and Duolin Museum of Art in Shanghai.^[2]

For a complete list of Huang Yuanqing's exhibitions, click here.

[edit] Interviews 

To view Huang Yuanqing's video interview with Studio Door China, click here. 

[edit] References

1. ↑ ^{1.0 1.1 1.2} Lilly Wei, "Huang Yuanqing", Studio Door, August 2008.
2. ↑ http://www.findartinfo.com/search/listprices.asp?keyword=329326&name=Huang_Yuanqing