The paintings of Annie Hsiao-Wen Wang are
both a reaction to, and a reflection of her scientific education.
Having studied a double degree in Physics and Engineering
at the University of Western Australia, she went on to study
Visual Arts and Photomedia at Edith Cowan University. This
range of endeavour and enquiry, combined with her Buddhist
heritage, has resulted in powerful and rarefied works.
The colourist abstract paintings seek, with their scale,
to fill the viewer’s field of view, providing an opportunity
to meditate on both the numinous and the emotional. The creation
of the works by the artist is led by both rational concerns
of colour theory, surface quality and composition, combined
with the intuitive and emotional process of the meditative
practice.
Informed by influences from Rothko, erotic photography and
figurative 3D work, her broad range of work hints at a commitment
and rigour to the artist – both as self-observer and
reflector of the universal human experience.
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