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About Xiau - Fong WeeABOUT THE WORK Concrete Black At night, the streets and crossroads of the city develop a unique look. Fascinated by the evening’s range of colours and moods, painter Xiau-Fong Wee captures the nocturnal hours in her hometown, San…BACKGROUND INFORMATION
ABOUT THE WORK
Concrete Black
At night, the streets and crossroads of the city develop a unique look. Fascinated by the evening’s range of colours and moods, painter Xiau-Fong Wee captures the nocturnal hours in her hometown, San Francisco. The artist’s pieces bring billboards, street lamps, and headlights together in a symphony of light. Her chosen subjects, the arterial streets of San Francisco, ensure the works are both exciting and intriguing. The hills featuring vehicles driving up and down the famous sloping streets give the compositions a remarkable dynamism.
Wee’s strength is her ability to create special moments from everyday scenes. To her, the city is an inexhaustible source of inspiration. Her interpretation of these emotive urban scenes places the American painter firmly in the tradition of impressionism. We are reminded of Lesser Ury, a pioneer of modernism who captured Berlin at night during the 1920’s. The series “Concrete Black” is a remarkable collection that first draws us into the San Francisco night, then allows us to lose ourselves amongst its dancing lights.
TECHNIQUE
Wee’s paintings give us a visual representation of San Francisco’s pulsating energy. The artist continually juxtaposes dark, gloomy passages with iridescent spots of light. The bright turquoise of the traffic lights appears at regular intervals, creating an interplay of orange, red, yellow, and white light.
The sparkling lights are always the first element that Wee puts onto canvas, followed by the different shades of the night’s darkness. Step by step, the painter creates her very own song of the city.VITA
Born in Salinas, USA 2011 Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting and Drawing from the Academy of Art University, San Francisco, USA Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
2011 Rebirth, CJ Asian Art Gallery, Singapore Group Exhibitions
2013 Lana Purnell and Xiau-Fong Wee, Studio Gallery, San Francisco, USA 2013 City Streets, Studio Gallery, San Francisco, USA 2013 Visions and Reflections, Gauntlet Gallery, San Francisco, USA 2012 Corporeal Clusters, 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco, USA 2012 Summer Group Show, Spoke Art, San Francisco, US 2012 Endless Minds, Akiba Gallery, San Francisco, USA 2011 20/20, Back to the Picture, San Francisco, USA 2011 Warhol Re-imagined, Project One Gallery, San Francisco, USA 2010 The Magic of City Lights, Arata Fine Art Gallery, San Francisco, USA