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Biography

Jian (Wang Jianxiao), born in Suzhou, China, is a seasoned Chinese artist with over four decades of experience. Jian is a graduate of the Central Academy of Arts & Design (now the Academy of Arts & Design, Tsinghua University) where she majored in lacquer painting. After graduation, she studied lacquer art in Japan for 3 years between 1993 and 1995. From 2003 to 2018, she moved to live abroad in the US and founded Jian Art Studio. The States is also the place where contemporary and abstract traits in Jian’s works emerge. Her works are thus a reflection of her experience of cultural collision and integration between the East and the West.

 

Jian’s works have been showcased in international art exhibitions in China, South Korea, Japan, the United States, Taiwan, etc. with collectors all over the world.

 

In her recent works, palette knife became a crucial tool and the carrier of inspiration, of the unique textures formed by repeated strokes and blocks of colours, which in turn show a strong sense of rhythm and movement. Though Jian’s artistic style appears to be abstract, she takes inspiration from ancient Chinese poetry and incorporates in her works figurative elements such as floral shapes and bird patterns that appeared in her dreams, fantasies, or fragments of life. It is essentially a reinterpretation of elements of flowers, water, and clouds in traditional Chinese poetry.

 

The alternation and overlap between various texture in Jian’s works will surely evoke viewers’ sensation of synesthesia and stir one’s soul, as if an unbridled symphony envisioning a resplendent and kaleidoscopic world with colour as notes and texture as rhythm.

Artworks

PIT00135 copy
Sun and Moon
Oil on Paper
33 cm x 33 cm
HK$9,000
p_A_WJX2022010_Jian 王建曉, Chiba 千羽鶴, 2022, Oil on Paper 油彩紙本, 33 cm x 33 cm, HK$9,000 copy
Chiba
Oil on Paper
33 cm x 33 cm
HK$9,000
p_A_WJX2020005_Jian 王建曉, The 24 Solar Terms 二十四節氣, 2020, Oil on Canvas 油彩布本, 30 cm x 30 cm, HK$9,000
The 24 Solar Terms
Oil on Canvas
30 cm x 30 cm
HK$9,000
PIT00082 copy
The 24 Solar Terms
Oil on Canvas
30 cm x 30 cm
HK$9,000
PIT00070 copy
The 24 Solar Terms
Oil on Canvas
30 cm x 30 cm
HK$9,000
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Cool Breeze and Bright Moon
Oil on Canvas
70 cm x 70 cm
HK$38,800