Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery is extremely pleased to announce that Wanning Liao has been named as the Gallery’s new featured artist and she will now be promoted by the gallery for the next 14 days in the gallery’s Artist Showcase.
Originally from China, Wanning Liao is an internationally acclaimed, award-winning artist based in Ontario, Canada. She was selected as 1 of the top twelve finalists in the gallery’s 29th Solo Art Exhibition Series. The placement in this competition qualified her artwork to be showcased in this feature.
Her Artist Showcase feature will be promoted to hundreds of major news outlets. In addition, the gallery will also be featuring and promoting her artwork in the gallery’s various social media networks for further exposure.
Below are Wanning Liao’s Artist Biography, Artist Statement and 5 of her watercolor and oil paintings that were submitted to this competition.
Wanning Liao received his MFA in Oil Painting from China's Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts. Liao, a Chinese artist living in Canada, launched her career in 2008 with a successful solo exhibition in Hong Kong, gaining significant recognition in the art world.
With memberships in the Portrait Society of America and the Canada Artists Association, she's achieved international exhibition success and critical acclaim for her art, which frequently explores themes of memory, fragility, and relationship dynamics.
Her artistic accomplishments include winning silver at the 2023 and 2024 INNOART PRIZE International Art Competitions, and three American Art Awards in 2024. Prestigious global venues and publications have exhibited Liao's art, which includes a series featuring old objects and portraits of notable figures like singer Dou Wei.
Two themes I'm currently working on have become interesting.
One is about the creation of old (antique) materials. The reason is that I found several old Chinese paintings from the last century that my grandfather left me when I was a child. Some old German cameras and other objects inspired my interest in antiques collections, and in gradually coming into contact with these old objects, I discovered that different materials emitted different glows and a rich sense of history over the years. My knowledge and my aesthetics have expanded completely differently. Their beauty and charm are far from the existence of modern crafts and art.
Second, it is about two sexual relationship and parent child relationship. Sex relations are eternal human subjects, and everybody can't escape them. Focusing on children's inner and emotional development has become my latest experience and focus. The environment in which children live and their personal fate are closely related to the ecosphere in which they live.
I began to focus on children displaced after the war, on children out of school, on abandoned children, on children whose social problems prevented them from growing up properly. The sad fate of the unfortunate children in the social media is like a sad song that makes me sad, anxious and scared.
To learn more about Wanning Liao and to see more of his art, please visit her website.
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