Spotlight Artist

Liang Siheng

Midwest
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We Finally Together

Colorful abstract painting with floating faces and swirling patterns in blue, yellow, and pink.

encaustic on board

An Appearance

Colorful, textured landscape with a pond surrounded by dense, abstract foliage.

encaustic on board

Entwine

Abstract artwork with a textured pattern of red, orange, and hints of blue and green.

egg tempera on wood panel

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Artist Statement

 Through an intricate painting process with a maximalist tendency, my work transfers energy into images, which awakens the potential of perception hidden in the mind’s depths. It reflects my relationship to common human experiences related to spirit, unconsciousness, and fear.

I apply wax in fine lines and dots, layered and scraped away along the shapes formed. Some elements pass away and others stay within the painting’s entanglement, becoming something new that multiplies to form a new image. With fire I seal and archive the painted work, the traces of its process becoming translucent and superimposed, then chiseled away. The intensive labor becomes material, like amber over time.

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