Visual Inference

works by Shiao-Ping Wang

September 5 - 28 | Reception Friday, September 5 / 5 - 8pm during Art 'Round Town

Imagination and curiosity are the unseen ingredients in Shiao-Ping Wang's process. They lead the paths behind and beyond appearances and patterns. As patterns proliferate, conjugate and transform, the artist's eye finds relational meanings between the abstract forms and its parallels in natural phenomena and in human lives. 

Shiao-Ping is drawn to materials that evoke a sense of wonderment. The strong material presence of linen canvases and handmade paper “speak” to her in the process. They encourage her to explore ways in coloring, cutting, and reaching under layers of the pulp.

Shiao-Ping Wang was born in Taiwan and immigrated to New York where she studied art and obtained an MFA degree in painting from Queens College, City University of New York. Her work has been exhibited in US and internationally, and are in numerous private and public collections. She taught in Savannah College of Art (GA), Moravian College (PA), and University of New Hampshire. She received many awards and has been in Artist-In-Residence programs in Vermont Studio Center, White Mountain National Forest, Weir Farm Historic Site, France, Spain, Canada, and at Surf Point Foundation in Maine. Wang is represented by Barn Gallery in Ogunquit, Maine, and Furchgott Soudiffe Gallery in VT.