Faye Zxz

After being a visual artist for about 20 years, I have come to realize that the painting as a medium works better for me to express myself. When painting, I enjoy its spontaneity and its expressiveness. Also, after being an artist for years, I have come to know what kind of aesthetic value I want to achieve in my paintings and, it is the simplicity. With this thoughts in mind, the colors I used in my paintings are reduced to three, the black, the white and the gold. The richness of black and white I find in the Chinese painting and calligraphy, as well as in black and white photography. The color of gold reminds me the ultimate light source from the sun. In my paintings, the nature is the inspiration as well as the subject. When painting, I tend to focus on a simple scene, leaving space for imagination. As to the surface of a painting, I like it to be smooth, so to serve the purpose of calmness in the nature and in my mind. But, sometimes, I do add texture, when it is necessary.

Between the colors of black and white, there are many shades of grey. The color of grey dominates in my paintings. When painting, I enjoy blending the black and white into different hues of grey, enjoy seeing many tones of grey. Sometimes the lighter grey overcasts the darker one, other times the grey is sharply contrasted with each other. But, most times, the greys are melted with each other into one harmonic scene.

The color of grey reminds me a raining day, a day I would like to sit by the window, sipping a cup of tea or coffee, watching the rain floating outside. Sometimes after dark, I see myself in a dream of grey field, everything around blurred, softened. Often, the color of grey directs me to look up to the sky, letting my eyes wandering the clouds...

The color of grey calms me, my mind, my soul.

Through my paintings, I wish to bring a calmness to the busy world.

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Artist' Biographic Info

Education:

1998-2001, MFA from San Francisco State University

1979-1983, LLB from East China University Political Science & Law

Award & Honors:

2004 Recipient of Silver Award, by “The 3rd From Lausanne To Beijing International Fiber Art Biennial”

2001 Recipient of Visual Arts Award, by Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation

2000 Recipient of Merit Award of Textile Art, by the Conference of Norther California Handweavers

2000 Recipient of Fine Arts Scholarship, by Leo D. Stillwell Scholarship of San Francisco State University

1999 Recipient of Jack K. & Gertrude Murphy Fine Arts Fellowship, by San Francisco Foundation

Work Collected by:

2007 Superior Court of California in Santa Cruz county, California

2002 Honolulu Academy of Art, Honolulu, Hawaii

2002 DisneySea MiraCosta Hotel, Tokyo, Japan

And, by the individuals

Publication & Review:

2005 & 2002 Letter Arts Review, Vol.17, No.3 & Vol.20, No.3, USA

2004 Contemporary International Fiber Art, Catalogue of “The 3rd International Fiber Art Biennale- From Lausanne To Beijing”, China

2004 “Exhibition Finds Beauty In Words” by Joanne Silver, Boston Herald, Dec.27, USA

2003 “Making & Decorating Stylish Screens”, by Larkbooks, Altamont Press Inc., USA

2002 Weaving New Rhythms, by Rubicon Publishing Inc., Canada

2002 Surface Design, spring issue, USA

2002 American Craft, February /March issue, USA

2001 Fiber Arts, “Evolution of a Language”, by Victoria Alba, May /June issue, USA

1995 Shuttle, Spindle & Dyepot, Fall issue, USA