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Yangyang Pan’s Colorful Abstract Paintings

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Yangyang Pan is an artist "coming from away" to put it in her own words since she immigrated to Canada(2006) after completing her art education at the Sichuan Fine Art Institute in China. She first started exploring art through digital mediums, but later on, she was attracted to traditional painting as a better way to self-express her ideas. Her works bridge East and West, while her joyful paintings host symbols

of flowers and gardens, which Yangyang Pan says are metaphors for growth and transformation. Her artwork focuses on chromatic lyrism, using nostalgic moments wrapped in wild and joyful colours. Yangyang Pan is currently living and working in Toronto. Her work has been exhibited throughout Canada and US, as well as in Italy and China and she has participated in numerous commissioned works such as Apple, Amour Vert, Holt Renfrew, and Anthropologie.

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Peihang Benoît’s Youth Activities Series

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Peihang Benoît was born in Taiwan, 1984. Her works explore time in colour through abstract snapshots taken on the phone or from the archives. She's changing the original context by extending or filling

the void through painting and brushstroke movement. Peihang Benoit holds both BA and MFA degrees in Fine Art from National Taiwan Normal University. She currently lives and works in Paris with her family.

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Songs of Fishermen by Mong Mong Sho

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Mong Mong Sho's latest artwork is called Songs of Fishermen. They are a series of watercolour paintings heavily inspired and influenced by his early life which was spent near the sea and around boats and fishermen. His childhood dream was to become the best boat-maker and apparently he didn't make

his dream come true but they still have a special place in his life and philosophy as he mentioned while he was interviewed by Showcase Magazine. Mong Mong Sho believes that we all carry our own boat inside us called life and we need to make it smoother by ourselves.

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White Night Series by Feng Li

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Feng Li's photography series White Night is being live for over a decade taking place both in his homeland(Chengdu, China) and Europe(Paris, France). Feng Li was born in 1971 and is a graduate of Chinese medicine, he is a professional photographer working as a freelancer and as a civil servant for the provincial Department of Communication. His White Night series present every day(or night) street photos of ordinary people doing unusual things in a very intuitive way. Most of his street photos are from close range placing the subject on the center of his camera lens. Watching his photos for a few minutes may give you the idea that

he treats people or animals as bizarre city creatures who roam around it and most probably affect the way you look at people and scenes while wandering around the city. White Night Series Paris White Night Series 2018 2017 Feng Li's interview by Photography of China In one of his last interviews, Feng Li shares his views and ideas about his work. As he explains his photos are spontaneous, his favourite subject is people and he likes to use photoflash in order to highlight his subject. He also mentions that his fav Chinese photographer is Han Lei and that he photos hide a big "Why" in their stories. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1H-aEFkw3m0

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Sun Yunfan Descriptive Art

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Sun Yunfan was born in Shaanxi, China and now living in Brooklyn, US. She is a visual artist working with plenty of mediums such as painting, video, collages and

illustration. Even though I first wanted to review Sun Yunfan's prints and paintings I was blown away and touched by her video art as well. https://vimeo.com/220273209 https://vimeo.com/120833656 https://vimeo.com/120834699 Paintings Prints

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Liu Shiming’s Sculpture Ordinary World

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Cleave Hills and Leave in Water, 1958; glass fiber, 240×100×226cm

Liu Chiming was a Chinese sculpture born in 1973 and died in 2010 at age 84. He attended and graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts. He sculpted figures of ordinary people he met, such as villagers,

factory workers, herders and local opera performers. His work showed the simple and warm life of ordinary people in China thus his artworks kept the Chinese character which is usually forgotten by other recent sculpture artists from China. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JnrQklQeT8