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Climb, oil on linen, 2021, oil on linen, 60 x 72 in
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Burst of Joy, 2021, oil on linen, 60 x 60 in
On the Cabot Trail, 2020, oil on linen, 60 x 72 in.
Awake, 2021, oil on linen, 50 x 40
Cheers, 2021, oil on canvas, 36 x 36 in, framed in white
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Transience, 2021, oil on canvas, 30 x 30 in.
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Allure, 2020, oil on wood panel, 20 x 16
Walk, 2020, oil on wood panel, 20 x 16in
Pass, 2020, oil on wood panel, 20 x 16 in
Fresh Air #1, 2021, oil on canvas, 30 x 24 in, framed in white
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Fresh Air #2, 2021, oil on canvas, 30 x 24 in, framed in white
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Flowers on the wall 04, 2020, oil on canvas, 30 x 30 in, framed in black
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Mountain and Stream , oil on canvas, 24 x 36 in, framed in black.
Meditator, 2019, oil on canvas, 48 x 48 in.
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Abstract Landscape 90, 2019, oil on canvas, 48 x 36
Abstract Landscape 91, 2019, oil on canvas, 48 x 36
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Abstract Landscape #96, 2019, oil on canvas, 36 x 60
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Abstract Landscape 70, 2019, oil on canvas, 30 x 60 in, framed in black
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Island, 2019, oil on canvas, 40 x 40 in , framed in white
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Moon River #2, 2019, oil on canvas, 24 x 24 in, framed in black
Mist Light, 2019, oil on canvas, 30 x 30 in, framed in white
Pink Landscape, oil on canvas, 30 x 30 in, framed in white
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Morning Light, 2016, oil on wood, 2016, 40 x 40 (diameter)
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Artist Yangyang Pan
Yangyang Pan: Artist Statement
Coming from away, I unpack my paint box to interpret the Canadian landscape from a different perspective. I tame the wilderness and make my gardens wild. With a bird’s eye view of the new, yet old earth around me, I challenge the Canadian Shield and honour the St. Lawrence Lowlands. It is an immigrant immersion. I learn the land and present its messages. The abstracted landscape lets me step into it gently, then build, with my brushstrokes, this new embrace to a release. I paint my way into a new space that does not contain me. It allows me to feel an unfamiliar freedom and, at the same time, to be myself.
My focus is on chromatic lyricism. My paintings, with their exuberance and wild colours, develop and evolve as an intuitive reaction to my beautiful surroundings, whether as close as the garden or farther throughout the region. The resulting work is an interplay of my memories and my present, as I bring together the ethereal and the physicality of the land around me. Perhaps this distillation of nostalgia helps me to understand the here and now.
What I wish to present is my journey. While ostensibly based on the dynamic visual forces of nature, landscape and surroundings, these lyrical works are as much a landscape of my inner emotions, memories and history. I want my paintings to pulse with life and reveal a marriage of my cultural connections and ideas of aesthetics. This work allows me to consider the space between seen and unseen, which takes root in one’s senses and memory. I aim for the beauty and drama of evocative abstract painting within an ongoing exploration of what can be achieved in paint. I try to push the relation between form and colour to create a visual sensation of energy, emotion, and reality: epiphany.
My ‘Ephiphany’ solo exhibition at the Elora Centre for the Arts includes my recent work in the past three years. I try to capture the energy flow and the senses, and the fusion of eastern and western traditions. I grew up in China, where I got my art education. While much of my influence comes from Chinese culture and arts, I am also influenced by western abstract expressionism painters like Willem De Kooning, Joan Mitchell, Philip Guston and Cy Twombly, among others. My work reflects the blend of ideas between east and west, and is emblematic of the global nature of art.