 An elegant Assembly ... 2011 |
 Broken Bridge 2011 |
 Horse Herder 2011 |
 Horse Training 2011 |
 The Lonely Angler 2011 |
 The mind landscape o... 2011 |
 The Peach Blossum Co... 2011 |
Artists Statement
Yang Yong Liang (1980) is based in Shanghai, China. Yang depends heavily on his a camera and a laptop computer to make his art. Using only these tools—and a knowledge of traditional Chinese painting traditions—Yongliang invents urban scenes that depict skyscrapers under construction, freeway systems, electrical power plants, and bustling urban corridors. His compositions starkly reveal the impacts of technological progress that China has undergone over past decades.
Yongliang is among a generation of young artists who came of age after the Chinese Cultural Revolution, and therefore embraces a level of artistic freedom that is not common among past generations of Chinese artists.
Combining ancient Chinese artistic techniques, such as traditional "sui mo"painting and calligraphy, Yang Yong Liang uses his photographic elements of modern urban Shanghai, arranged in the traditional composition of Chinese landscape, to produce artworks with a perfect balance between fragility and danger, beauty and cruelty.
