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| Shadows on the American Landscape |
| Liang Wei - New Paintings |
| Liang Wei |
| September 9, 2009
- October 11, 2009 |
| 6:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. |
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Shadows on the American Landscape
Landscape paintings are common throughout the world and every region has its beauty that has been captured by artists for centuries. In art history, it isn't new that an artist in one culture has ventured off to another part of the world to explore and create in a foreign environment where cultural influences and visual stimulus change perspectives in the way subject matter is viewed. New experiences, new surroundings and new methodology are all influences with any immigrant, as it is so, with the artist Liang Wei.
We dream, we visualize and we participate in experiences that influence our lives forever. Remembrances of a moment ago or déjà vu from an undetermined origin are often pleasant and comforting thoughts and it is those heartwarming and pleasant memories that Liang Wei strives to capture on canvas with his paintings.
Moody, thoughtful and alluring are a few words that are frequently used to describe the paintings of Liang Wei as he wanders the west coast of the United States capturing landscapes and western culture.
Influenced by Americana and artists, Edward Hopper, Grant Wood and Northwest Contemporary Susan Bennerstrom, Liang Wei's landscapes reflect a style that is moody, provocative and thought provoking all combined with an excellent foundation in composition, design and technique. His exploration of landscape painting is defined by creating mood rather than fact in combining intellect and emotion.
Not a realist, not a Naturalist and not an Impressionist, Liang Wei is a "Moodist." The impressionists wanted to capture the moment, Liang Wei captures a mood. Lingering and delicious, his paintings of long afternoon shadows or a dawn's rising sun are remembrances of feelings long put away in our memories that are awoken again and again when viewing his paintings. The scent of freshly cut grass as the afternoon sun casts a long shadow from a lonesome tree or the lung filling fresh air and dry grass from standing cliff side above the Columbia River as it meanders through central Washington. These are moments, moods and instinctual remembrances that are provoked and cherished by his paintings.
While Liang Wei doesn't walk alone in the painting world, he is still searching, exploring and experimenting with a delicate dance between the rhythm of his past and the structure of living in a western culture. A Northwest contemporary painter, Liang Wei has lived, painted and embraced the Pacific Northwest as home since 1988.
Follow him as he chases the ever changing shadow and fading light of the Pacific sun.
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