Wendy Ng
Wendy Ng’s recent body of work presents itself in an enclosed space of aesthetic form and complex structure. It can be described as, dismantled and transformed evanescent beauty, that is sensual and organic.
The Illusive series of female figures that gaze out from the canvas, are laden with mystery and multiple perspectives that imply the illusionary haze of overlapping memories. A composition is being orchestrated; organic and geometric beauty is revealed before the viewer, and the past retreats as the present becomes fluid.
The artist’s technique is conflicting; combining realism with an abstract vision, the works can be likened to that of Juan Gris; whose objects were broken up, analysed and re-assembled in an abstracted form.
Wendy was born in Hong Kong, Educated in the United States, Belgium and the United Kingdom. Art has always been at the heart of all Wendy’s career decisions.
Trained in Art and Design at The Wimbledon School of Art, UK, with a Graphic Design and Illustration background in advertising and publishing.
"My commercial experience has given me a broad scope of artistic expression. Painting in the traditional form gives me the opportunity to take my ideas further; experimenting with the juxtaposition of patterns and textures, to achieve a play of balance and to create rich and inviting paintings. I am inspired by Gustav Klimt and Tamara de Lempicka’s art."
Collections:
Corporate and Private collections in the U.K. Hong Kong, U.S., Belgium and Singapore.
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Australian Exhibitions include:
2003 Linden Art Gallery, St Kilda, Victoria.
2003 Richmond Galleries, Richmond, Victoria.
Why Collectors Are Crazy For Chinese Art?
With the emergence of free-spending, nouveau riche collectors from mainland China, the Chinese art market is at the start of what may be an extended boom. Buyers are snatching up avant-garde paintings by Chinese-born artists living in China and abroad. Ever since the 2003 auctions in New York that saw a surgence of Chinese art, prices have been surpassing estimates.
Art collecting was one of the "bourgeois" activities purged in the 1960s and ’70s during the Cultural Revolution, but it has flourished under recent economic reforms. Dozens of art auction houses have sprung up in China in recent years, the most prominent of which is the China Guardian in Beijing.
Experts expect prices to continue rising as China’s wealth grows. "The Chinese don’t understand why there’s such a big price difference between Western art and the greatest Chinese art," says Henry Howard-Sneyd, Sotheby’s Hong Kong-based Managing Director for China and Southeast Asia. For instance, while a Picasso painting sold this spring for $104 million, works by Zhang Daqian, who lived from 1899 to 1983 and is known as "China’s Picasso," usually reach $1 million. Chinese collectors figure Zhang’s paintings will eventually approach Picasso’s level.
Is it too late for smaller collectors to dive in? "Oh, God, no," says David Tang, the Hong Kong entrepreneur and art collector who argues that the rise of the Chinese art market "is just beginning."
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