The Night 2 - Pen on Canvas 55'' x 79'' Meng Yang has chosen as a tool one of the most indispensable building blocks in the visual arts—the straight line—to create complex and powerfully stunning images. She composes her work with lines that she entwines and overlaps to produce her imagery, and her choice of using ink on canvas generates an effect that can be equated with the look of woven artwork. Meng has observed that in both art as well as science, the line is one of the most vital and irreducible forms, and in personalizing this most rudimentary element, she is able to reestablish her love of the rich tradition of Chinese nature painting. Her subject matter varies—she at times presents floral imagery, or images from daily life, or she creates fragmentary abstractions that are reflections of her inner life. The modern, ironic aspect to her work is that she uses a network of highly detailed lines and a very structured composition to create time-honored images which have, as their subject matter, sublime visions of nature. Meng has come full circle in her growth as an artist. She is revisiting traditional imagery, but she is creating it in her own idiosyncratic way. While Meng Yang’s art is personal, it also touches the viewer with its power and its inspiring beauty.

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