Liuqing Ruth Yang has a solo exhibit from Jan. 25 to Mar 27, 2023
Reception is Friday, January 27, from 5 to 7 pm, in conjunction with D&E College Art Department
Read more about Ruth

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Ruth is a portrait painter in oils. Valuing the traditional painting skills developed by European
masters, she is particularly inspired by Renaissance, Classical, Neoclassical and Baroque Paintings. She explores individual humanism and personal subjectivity through multiple layering techniques. “I am focused on sensitively describing the three dimensional space of the characters and their dynamic, vivid body language,” she states. Most of her paintings employ a dark background to make a strong, chiaroscuro contrast to the bright colors of her subjects. This is a very tedious, mentally and physically laborious painting process of repeated modification.
Her artworks are greatly informed by the master painters: Raphael and Caravaggio,
particularly their religious works, which are inspirational as a Christian. She researches contemporary painters examining and crossing cultures and painting methods such as Kehinde Wiley and Kurt Kauper. Her paintings are tied with traditional painting techniques to explore Christian icons and symbolism, but replace historical figures with contemporary subjects wearing carefully chosen contemporary garb.