The work of Chinese artist Meng Yang achieves a unique balance. Her compositions are fragmented and decidedly post-modern, not just in subject matter or form, but also in her technique and process. Working with mediums such as ink and creating painstakingly precise and almost claustrophobic line work, Yang’s pieces are packed with movement, the lines creating a buzzing tension that is so focused one can almost feel it on a muscular level. Yang’s work definitely alludes to technology- the viewer may get an intense feeling they are being pulled in between the eerily humming screen-in lines of a television- but also achieves a surprising balance and delicacy that harkens back to classical Chinese watercolor art. Each piece emanates a feeling akin to psychic energy running along a circuit board, but she balances this with a delicate palette of colors and intermittent inclusions of somewhat softer forms and shapes.

Yang studied painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Tianjin. She currently lives and works in Germany.